вЂњGood For You,вЂќ the A$AP Rocky-featuring lead single, plays out like a feminine reflection of her future paramour The WeekndвЂ™s ominous alt-R&B. Though the albumвЂ™s concept and revealing cover art were inspired by Christina AguileraвЂ™s Stripped, Gomez took a softer approach to her songsвЂ™ dynamics. On Revival, that voice took on an entirely new dimension.

And IвЂ™m an actress - I love being able to translate everything IвЂ™m feeling inside through my voice and through the songs.вЂќ You can hear it in my voiceвЂ¦ I know that IвЂ™m not the worldвЂ™s greatest singer, but I do know that I have a unique tone. On her earlier material, her voice was often processed with a compressed, almost metallic quality: the multitracked sheen of вЂњNaturally,вЂќ the robo-pop of вЂњLove You Like a Love Song.вЂќ She told TIME in 2015: вЂњThere were times in my career where I sang things that just werenвЂ™t me and werenвЂ™t for me.

Yet she hadnвЂ™t earned that reputation until the release of her 2015 album Revival. She has a relatively small vocal range, and her delivery is oft-described with terms like soft, delicate, husky, whispery. This Is AllвЂ¦ДЄs a singer, Selena Gomez is best known for her lack of vocal theatrics. The lyrics address the concept of love, but the song isnвЂ™t particularly romantic: вЂњNo happy endings, no wind in our sailsвЂ¦вЂќД«illboard Cover: Selena Gomez on Her New Chapter - 'I've Deserved This. Yet Selena sings as if sheвЂ™s reckoning with her thoughts in real time, not yet ready to put her feelings aside. Her teen idol status had already made her a role model for young girls and women her highly public relationship with Justin Bieber put her actions under an even more critical lens. For the first time, her lyrics acknowledged her personal life, as she describes herself going back to a potentially doomed relationship: вЂњSave your advice, вЂ™cause I wonвЂ™t hearвЂ¦/ ThereвЂ™s a million reasons why I should give you up/ But the heart wants what it wantsвЂ¦вЂќ In November 2014, Gomez surprise-released вЂњThe Heart Wants What It Wants,вЂќ a brooding R&B track that was significantly darker than anything sheвЂ™d previously sung. Though it became her first top ten hit on the Billboard Hot 100, Gomez was still following trends, not setting them. She outgrew her band on her first solo release, 2013вЂ™s Stars Dance, whose electropop-via-Bollywood lead single вЂњCome & Get ItвЂќ was a Rihanna reject, precisely calculated to be a Top 40 smash. But the film was grounded by GomezвЂ™s fragile, regretful performance, which hinted at depths not yet explored in her music. She starred in Harmony KorineвЂ™s 2012 film Spring Breakers, a film that baited controversy with its unflinching portrayal of college girls embracing sex, drugs and crime in Florida. As Selena Gomez & The Scene - not a solo act, but a band - she made three albums of likeable, if unextraordinary, electro-fied teen pop-rock, seemingly inspired by Paramore and Metric as much as the Jonas Brothers. Early on, there were signs that Gomez wanted to carve her own path.

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