Selena Gomez is going to back to her Wizard of Waverly place roots. In the witchy music video for her new single,” boyfriend” Gomez isn’t just looking for the one, she is using a little dark magic to weed out Everyone else.
I want a “boyfriend” to tell me, are there any good ones left ??? Selena Gomez sings as she goes from bad date to a bad date. Eventually, she takes matters into her own hands. Using a glowing purple portion, she turns her potential suitors into frogs. Her men magically grow long tongues, webbed fingers, and scally green skin, all while Gomes smiles and laughs. In the end, she’s still single, but she doesn’t have a new collection of pets.
Selena Gomez dropped the video on Friday, just a day after releasing the deluxe version of her latest album, Rare. “Boyfriend ” is on-off new songs that appear on the record.
The inspiration for the song came from a text message Gomez send to musicians Julia Michaels, one of the singles songwriter. On a Thursday, episode of apple music’s new music daily with the same lowe, Michales asked Gomez if there was anything else she felt like she hadn’t covered on the album. ” I was like, I don’t know. Life’s good. I want a boyfriend. That’s about it. ” Gomez recalled, and I come in the studio and that’s literally the little.
In some of the other songs on Rare, Gomez touched on her very public breakup with Justin Bieber, her former relationship with the weekend and the importance of self – love. In contrast, ” boyfriend is a little more light-hearted —although as her other, collaborator Justin Tranter pointed out, the songs make a very crucial distinction between “wanting “and “needing” a significant other. As much as Gomez may want a boyfriend, she’s still sticking to her motto from her albums title track: that there someone out there to make her feel special. And it likely won’t be one of those amphibians.
