- 2025-02-15
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MUSIC
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Selena Gomez & benny blanco Announce New Collaborative Album “I Said I Love You First”, Share New Song “Scared of Loving You”
American singer-songwriter Selena Gomez is back. This time, she joined forces with her fiancé and American record producer benny blanco.
They have announced their upcoming collaborative album “I Said I Love You First” will be released on March 21, 2025.
For Selena Gomez, the album is her first project in five years since the 2020 album “Rare”.
This isn't the first time Selena Gomez and benny blanco have worked together.
benny blanco produced Selena Gomez's 2015 album “Revival”, and the 2023 single “Single Soon”. And Selena Gomez joined in benny blanco's 2019 song “I Can't Get Enough” with J Balvin and Tainy.
The album comprises 14 songs, produced by benny blanco.
From the album, they released the first single called “Scared of Loving You” on February 13, 2025.
Selena Gomez and benny blanco co-wrote the song with American singer-songwriter Finneas O'Connell, aka FINNEAS. Produced by benny blanco and FINNEAS.- Selena Gomez told Interview Magazine about working with benny blanco, “The fact that he listened to me. Sometimes it’s difficult for me to speak up. Most of my anxiety right now is wanting him to speak because I feel like he’s more talented than I am in this field. It’s like working with a great filmmaker. Whether we were together or not, I think he still would’ve listened to everything that I had to say, and he was able to almost transcribe it into music, into what the feeling of what I was talking about should be. And I really found that to be helpful because this album definitely feels just as much mine as I’m sure it does his.”
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benny blanco added, “We also just made it in this house. We weren’t going to a studio every day. I’d be like, 'Hey, I have this cool chord thing.' Then she’d come in. We weren’t like, 'Today’s the studio. We’re going to write this song and that.' So many times it was so hodgepodge. It was like two hours here, two hours there. I’d never worked that way with someone. Usually I work that way if I’m by myself, but it was so cool to be able to do that with her.” - source : Apple Music
