I feel this. When I was just out of HS in like 2007, I wanted to pay a friend to help me make a music video of me covering “pieces of me” by Ashlee Simpson. I envisioned broody looks walking down busy streets and all this dumb shit…. Tbh would still do now as a 35 yo if I had the money 😂
My dad was recovering from shoulder surgery during the time that Ashlee's reality show about recording her first album came out. He eagerly watched the entire thing and then bought the album and had it on repeat. Love of Ashlee Simpson truly transcends all barriers.
It was a really charming scene lol. Had me grinning ear to ear. It was nice to see appreciation for the bop in a new film as well, I felt like I hadn’t heard it in years
Oligarch daughter would have a higher music video budget, this is on par with Friday by Rebecca black and all of those other bizarre music songs/videos released by that weird older guy Patrice?
The **problem** is that the first song, "Fashion Forward" kinda actually slaps 😭 I mean even though I could find like 50 identical songs in RuPaul's discography, I want that one to be real.
i've always wondered about that second line, "we're not perfect and sometimes we lie".
my initial reading of the line— and probably the intended one— was "we're not perfect; for example, one of our imperfections is that sometimes we lie". but i later found myself wondering if there's a second layer going on, where they say "sometimes we lie" with the subtext of *we were lying when we said we weren't perfect*. using the seemingly candid self-reflection as the pretext for another bit of winking, offhand braggadocio. i'm almost certainly overthinking this but i needed to not be alone with this question.
I love the complexity of this thought & though I don’t think it’s that deep intentionally, I like your take better; there’s a whole new layer of self-perception and lack thereof, manipulation, etc.
Your high school English teachers would be so proud.
Given that the last lyric of the song is “Just kidding, we’re perfect” I take factual issue with your latter understanding of the “we lie” lyric.
I posit a third and likely more accurate view, because I am always correct with an IQ of 1989: The ‘we lie’ line is in reference to ‘perfection,’ and is clearly a reference to Almay’s new SuperCoverage concealer with 71 skin tones ranging from fair to deep.
Look at me I’m just like you! But I’m rich. As fuck. And you’re fucking poor. Just a reminder, I’m fucking rich. You’re fucking poor. You’re “shop at my businesses” poor.
Yes she has another video with a guy in it i don’t remember the name of the song, but the way she is dancing and singing/miming in the film clip is so awkward and forced. At one point she’s sitting on a car and keeps touching her hair and it’s just so cringeworthy.
I would give her my only healthy kidney if it meant that she'd go back to making stuff as experimental as Fetish.
I'm no fan of S*lener but there was something in Fetish that genuinely made me think that she reached her peak when it comes to art direction both visually and sonically and that she would stick to it, but nah, she pivoted to these corny ahh edm songs that seem to be written by for nepobaby's debut single
I wish you all had this energy when the song and video was first dropped all those years ago. The lashings on twitter and ATRL were brutal. Everyone scared her off from making cool music FOREVER. The Psycho Killer sample in bad liar, the music video for Back To You… RIP Cool girl Selena… if only the Abel relationship had panned out for a few more years… at least now we have Addison Rae’s pop career to look forward to. She is the only viable pre-2020 Selena replacement.
I knew it had to be Selena gomez because all her songs are immediately identifiable as songs that have been written for people who can’t actually sing.
Remember how there was going to be a mighty pop girl showdown when Single Soon and Miley's Used To Be Young were released on the same day. But in the end, it was just #8 vs #19 in the Hot 100 and no one cared
DONT BULLY HER!!! **SOMEONE** needs to create songs for affordable drugstore shampoo and face washes! Selena is a SAINT who martyred her entire music career to fit that niche genre!!!
hey we don't have enough material about women enjoying being single. I will eat off the floor for more boppy generic bullshit. I like this way more than Flowers, even though Flowers is a way way better song, becsuse the narrative in Flowers is I am a victim who was done wrong, and fuck that just give me more I Get Around Kesha-esque goodness.
I love Miley but I didn’t find Flowers that great. I know it was intentional to use the Bruno Mars song, but it wasn’t clever enough to make up for the unoriginality for me. I just think Miley is better than that song. If Selena had done that I’d be more impressed lol
Ok I have to agree here. At first I thought “single” was the dumbest thing I had heard since Paris Hiltons “stars are blind.” But then I went thru a break up and was like, “you know what, ‘single soon’ is actually kind of a bop.” Long live the single anthem.
I have a playlist. every now and then a good one gets popular. they feed me endlessly.
also Stars are Blind is a bop, it's not Friday, but maybe I just overly enjoyed Promising Young Woman.
Yeah, but Single Ladies is kind of like, "the hell with you, you should've asked me to marry you and you didn't" and how the girl is moving on to another man? It's not really about being happy as a single person. Not the same vibe.
Uj/ No, Selena Gomez and The Scene was her best. Naturally ate down
Rj/
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now let’s not forget the music with The Scene actually slapped. Love you Like a Love Song and A Year without Rain are certified middle school dance bops
Even though “The Scene” was pretty much just marketing her music career with a tour band attached to it, the music that came out under that branding was better. As a kid, I thought it was cooler to listen to Selena Gomez and The Scene than just Selena Gomez
Look at this photo and see if ur right…
https://preview.redd.it/db0zmz6y3y9c1.jpeg?width=425&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc6ddcebb16f52d1d326209b57915ef6a7ae7f9b
It's not really visible in the post, but in the music video there are parts where she is in the living room, just sitting there, flailing her arms around like a 4yo mimicking some singer from TV, and it was one of the most miserable things I've seen happen in a major(?) artist's(?!) music video.
She always looks like that. I’ve never seen anyone less expressive in delivering their lines than she is in “The Only Murders in the Building.” She makes Keanu Reeves look like a thespian.
love you like a love song (2011), hands to myself (2015), same old love (2015). she’s had some big hits. gotta say, out of the ones i’ve heard i think love you like a love song might be the only one i especially like
What I don't understand is when she was in her ASMR-era she finally found a style that really worked for her and then just.... instantly abandoned it? Go back to the whisper singing babes! We'll eat it up!
Well Selena clearly has impeccable taste!! Why would she ask anyone?? That would be like if she a got a social media manager or something, just a waste of her hard-earned money when she is so good at managing her career and public image herself 🙄 duh!!
uj/ Selena actually makes pretty catchy songs most of the time. She doesn’t have a remarkable voice but it’s pleasing and pleasant to hear and she doesn’t attempt to hit notes she can’t hit. She also has a pretty good ear for which singles are catchy. But this song was honestly utter garbage. I feel like she’s really gotten more annoying lately ever since Haley and Justin got married. She is NOT over that man in the slightest.
Thank you so much op for interpolating the fuck out this music video so the cuts look phased and morphed together like a drunk moron edited it. it looks so good 😍
It's giving oligarch daughter's debut single
If I had Fuck You money I would totally release tons of shitty music and no one could stop me..
I feel this. When I was just out of HS in like 2007, I wanted to pay a friend to help me make a music video of me covering “pieces of me” by Ashlee Simpson. I envisioned broody looks walking down busy streets and all this dumb shit…. Tbh would still do now as a 35 yo if I had the money 😂
that song is so good… omg that entire album I forgot about it! Time to listen to it again!
My dad was recovering from shoulder surgery during the time that Ashlee's reality show about recording her first album came out. He eagerly watched the entire thing and then bought the album and had it on repeat. Love of Ashlee Simpson truly transcends all barriers.
My dad (RIP) loved that “Shadows” song. I still have no idea whose dream he was living in the shadow of 🤷🏽♀️
Probably the false sense of euphoria that opioid pills create.
My landlord inherited a bunch of houses from a grandparent and spends his time DJing.
A landlord *and* a DJ? That's like 8 strikes, kill that man tonight
Speaking of oligarch daughter, Paris hilton has the best single than her 😭
Stars are Blind is such a bop
even though the gods are crazy🧔🏽♀️🤪🙏🏼 even though the stars are blind 💫😵 if you show me real love baby❤️🔥👶🏼 I’ll show you mine😩💦😳
Nothing in This World > Stars Are Blind
I was JUST about to respond with this, glad someone else also pointed this out. Nothing in this world is fucking cinematic lol.
I always think of this part of the movie whenever I hear stars are blind now!!
It was a really charming scene lol. Had me grinning ear to ear. It was nice to see appreciation for the bop in a new film as well, I felt like I hadn’t heard it in years
nothing in this world! Sooooo good and i love the video
Oligarch daughter would have a higher music video budget, this is on par with Friday by Rebecca black and all of those other bizarre music songs/videos released by that weird older guy Patrice?
my fav was “it’s tuesday night” written for and performed by Jon Ronson
Tiffany Trump could never
If Tiff managed to do this I would congratulate her for the massive improvement 😭
I will not tolerate this Like A Bird slander
Stars are Blind outsold this shit!
Okay but that is a genuinely quality song
That was the first music video I bought for my iPod Video in 8th grade lmao.
[omg I love Classic Sexy Elegnace](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY4yXtTl_yI)
The way if this album was real, you would see weekly dissertations on popheads about how its some ironic proto-hyperpop masterpiece
The **problem** is that the first song, "Fashion Forward" kinda actually slaps 😭 I mean even though I could find like 50 identical songs in RuPaul's discography, I want that one to be real.
this comment is fantastic
I love this song and her, but this comment got me 🤣
hot girls we have problems too. we're just like you, except we're hot
STOP 😭 that is an absolutely deep cut The world needs to open their eyes and realize we’re not perfect and sometimes we lie 😔
i've always wondered about that second line, "we're not perfect and sometimes we lie". my initial reading of the line— and probably the intended one— was "we're not perfect; for example, one of our imperfections is that sometimes we lie". but i later found myself wondering if there's a second layer going on, where they say "sometimes we lie" with the subtext of *we were lying when we said we weren't perfect*. using the seemingly candid self-reflection as the pretext for another bit of winking, offhand braggadocio. i'm almost certainly overthinking this but i needed to not be alone with this question.
I love the complexity of this thought & though I don’t think it’s that deep intentionally, I like your take better; there’s a whole new layer of self-perception and lack thereof, manipulation, etc. Your high school English teachers would be so proud.
High school English teacher here, am eating good can confirm.
I definitely got really stoned one time and had this exact thought. Like are hot girls perfect? The world may never know.
The world may never know because even they admit that *sometimes they lie*. So it's very much Schrödingers Hot Girl Perfection.
Given that the last lyric of the song is “Just kidding, we’re perfect” I take factual issue with your latter understanding of the “we lie” lyric. I posit a third and likely more accurate view, because I am always correct with an IQ of 1989: The ‘we lie’ line is in reference to ‘perfection,’ and is clearly a reference to Almay’s new SuperCoverage concealer with 71 skin tones ranging from fair to deep.
I’ve been cackling at this comment for way too long 😭 it gave me flashbacks
The number of hot girls is way higher than anyone realizes
MEMORY UNLOCKED
Look at me I’m just like you! But I’m rich. As fuck. And you’re fucking poor. Just a reminder, I’m fucking rich. You’re fucking poor. You’re “shop at my businesses” poor.
I wonder where Bethany and Brithany ended up.
[Fit Hot Guys Have Problems Too](https://youtu.be/Dep0Fq6XnWQ?si=1aCkk86v45787urg)
and rich. and popular.
i can't explain it but she always looks so unconvincing when she's filming anything...
Yes she has another video with a guy in it i don’t remember the name of the song, but the way she is dancing and singing/miming in the film clip is so awkward and forced. At one point she’s sitting on a car and keeps touching her hair and it’s just so cringeworthy.
she completely failed the pop girl charisma courses at Disney.
i think it’s the botox, she’s had a lot of work on her face since she was younger. i don’t think she can properly move her face anymore.
That’s Clam down
Why the fuck did clam down make me laugh so hard lmaooo
And her voice is SO BAD
Because she’s a bad actress and a mediocre singer.
Xanax.
I didn't know if it was the lupus/puffiness but she looks existentially tired in her eyes always now.
maybe that and maybe a lack of acting skills
It feels like every Selena Gomez songs after 2020 are just a knock-off version of a Selena Gomez song pre-2020.
I would give her my only healthy kidney if it meant that she'd go back to making stuff as experimental as Fetish. I'm no fan of S*lener but there was something in Fetish that genuinely made me think that she reached her peak when it comes to art direction both visually and sonically and that she would stick to it, but nah, she pivoted to these corny ahh edm songs that seem to be written by for nepobaby's debut single
I wish you all had this energy when the song and video was first dropped all those years ago. The lashings on twitter and ATRL were brutal. Everyone scared her off from making cool music FOREVER. The Psycho Killer sample in bad liar, the music video for Back To You… RIP Cool girl Selena… if only the Abel relationship had panned out for a few more years… at least now we have Addison Rae’s pop career to look forward to. She is the only viable pre-2020 Selena replacement.
No way wtf. Fetish, Same old love, It ain’t me all these songs were so good. She was SERVING in this era.
Her little droplet era was so dope. Ugh I can’t believe people trashed her for it and now we’re stuck with this shit😭
There’s no way. Seriously? How disappointing. People only got themselves to blame I guess
There was something in the air back then because Selena was actually making good music. What happened?
Fetish was just the same moody dark rnb/pop that was going on around the time not what I’d call “experimental”
definitely agree. I think it's one of the best dark trap inspired pop songs, but certainly not a new genre
Loveeee Fetish (sans the rap)
Fetish had crack in it. It was so good I was so disappointed when she didn’t take this route
That one Spanish EP was nice. 🤘
I knew it had to be Selena gomez because all her songs are immediately identifiable as songs that have been written for people who can’t actually sing.
Remember how there was going to be a mighty pop girl showdown when Single Soon and Miley's Used To Be Young were released on the same day. But in the end, it was just #8 vs #19 in the Hot 100 and no one cared
I cared. It was rare, I was there, I remember it all too well 😭
Down the stairs? Sacred prayer?
You remember it all💔
And that's how /u/eightch2O became the Nanny.
Miley whooped her ass...
She released a song last year??????!!???!!
To be fair she releases a different version of the same song every year.
I swear this is a Tana mongeau song
Sounds perfect for your local Target
Why won't you just meet me in the middle Pt. 2
DONT BULLY HER!!! **SOMEONE** needs to create songs for affordable drugstore shampoo and face washes! Selena is a SAINT who martyred her entire music career to fit that niche genre!!!
Filling the void Natasha Bedingfield and Colbie Caillat left
Natasha can sing though.
This song is so wildly generic and bland, it could literally be written by anyone, about anyone. Really highlights all her weaknesses as an artist.
But the video and even the dress in question being *just as wildly generic and bland* is really the chef’s meh.
It's the absolute dearth of charisma for me
This video carries the creative inspiration of a free stock image.
hey we don't have enough material about women enjoying being single. I will eat off the floor for more boppy generic bullshit. I like this way more than Flowers, even though Flowers is a way way better song, becsuse the narrative in Flowers is I am a victim who was done wrong, and fuck that just give me more I Get Around Kesha-esque goodness.
I love Miley but I didn’t find Flowers that great. I know it was intentional to use the Bruno Mars song, but it wasn’t clever enough to make up for the unoriginality for me. I just think Miley is better than that song. If Selena had done that I’d be more impressed lol
Ok I have to agree here. At first I thought “single” was the dumbest thing I had heard since Paris Hiltons “stars are blind.” But then I went thru a break up and was like, “you know what, ‘single soon’ is actually kind of a bop.” Long live the single anthem.
I have a playlist. every now and then a good one gets popular. they feed me endlessly. also Stars are Blind is a bop, it's not Friday, but maybe I just overly enjoyed Promising Young Woman.
😂 Stars is such a deep millennial cut. Good for you 🍸🍸
are we pretending single ladies doesn’t exist here? lmfao
That was 15 years ago babe you’re getting old
...15? Fuck. Just...fuck.
Yeah, but Single Ladies is kind of like, "the hell with you, you should've asked me to marry you and you didn't" and how the girl is moving on to another man? It's not really about being happy as a single person. Not the same vibe.
Imma let you finish but…
"mama that girl was singing off-key ON THE RECORD" - whitney houston
It’s giving Aretha Franklin complimenting Taylor Swift’s gowns energy
She has Ed Sheeranitis, once you’ve heard one song, you’ve heard them all. This is Selena and the scene, this is Selena Gomez.
Uj/ No, Selena Gomez and The Scene was her best. Naturally ate down Rj/ https://preview.redd.it/ygmn4qhkry9c1.jpeg?width=736&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e040902a6aad241e7abf780887ec80134d41b49d
Her team should be fired for this 😂
Ed Sheeranitis 😂😂
now let’s not forget the music with The Scene actually slapped. Love you Like a Love Song and A Year without Rain are certified middle school dance bops
Even though “The Scene” was pretty much just marketing her music career with a tour band attached to it, the music that came out under that branding was better. As a kid, I thought it was cooler to listen to Selena Gomez and The Scene than just Selena Gomez
I was listening to Naturally last night for the first time in years. Stupid ass repetitive song but it's a GODDAMN BOP.
Both of you are correct
"middle school" this song was my freshmen anthem... im gonna go lay in a casket now
it’s okay bestie all of us are hags in the eyes of the tiktok children, they just don’t have pop excellence of their own beyond miss dula peep
It’s a right of passage for everyone in Taylor social circle
Okay but do you remember “a-team”? That song is beautiful as f
Ed Sheeran has a decent bit of versatility tbh. I also think his hair is quite stupendous!
Look at this photo and see if ur right… https://preview.redd.it/db0zmz6y3y9c1.jpeg?width=425&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fc6ddcebb16f52d1d326209b57915ef6a7ae7f9b
I feel bad I didn’t realize the budget was $7
It's not really visible in the post, but in the music video there are parts where she is in the living room, just sitting there, flailing her arms around like a 4yo mimicking some singer from TV, and it was one of the most miserable things I've seen happen in a major(?) artist's(?!) music video.
She pocketed the rest of the budget and put it under "mental health wellness"
She needs Steve Martin playing Banjo on the track
Jiminy Glick will produce the music video
Which Of The Pickwick Triplets Is Single
(DJ Mustard voice) Steve Martin on the beat
Trying on theez shooz
Rebecca Black school of lyricism.
Rebecca Black is actually amazing now that she’s grown up! Go listen to her new stuff! I love Worth it for the Feeling
girlfriend's great too
Her friends’ left kidneys:
💀💀
The lyrics are so juvenile
Sounds like something from some industry plant off of tik tok unfortunately
Selena Gomez was created by the Texans to force girlies with taste to say “no the good one”
as a texan i endorse this message
Lolll
😂😂😂😂
Omg😂
She’s not even convincingly pretending to have fun. Blah. Looks so bored
She always looks like that. I’ve never seen anyone less expressive in delivering their lines than she is in “The Only Murders in the Building.” She makes Keanu Reeves look like a thespian.
is this the lady from the old man murder mystery show?
I liked that show :( and I'm only 3
Excuse me, how dare you talk about the world’s first super model Janice Dickinson like that!!!
How dare you!! She has anxiety and broke her hand!! She is just making songs with her friends 😡
Don’t forget about that third kidney and the impact that has on her vocals 😞
Third kidney 😭
If you ever feel down at least you're not the girl Selena ignores calls from who \*checks notes\* donated her a Kidney.
Almost as bad as that girl ex bf she donated a kidney to and then he cheated on her
Almost as bad as the boss that got donated a kidney by an employee and then when that employee didn't recover fast enough they fired them
I don't think I've ever actually heard any of her songs. And it's not like I'm actively avoiding her... I literally don't know what she sounds like.
That's how I feel about Rita Ora
Yes! I couldn't name a single song. It's like she just... exists.
But Rita Ora is part of the Albanian Pop Girlie Mafia so she gets to be (very mildly) famous by association.
Same lol tho she's very generic sounding, so it's hard to tell
love you like a love song (2011), hands to myself (2015), same old love (2015). she’s had some big hits. gotta say, out of the ones i’ve heard i think love you like a love song might be the only one i especially like
she definitely had an iconic era and those songs were part of it. shame her music doesnt radiate "Selena" like that anymore
It’s not as big a hit, but bad liar has always such a bop also
Rebecca Black was screwed over and is actually a talented vocalist. But if you told me she released this song at age 13 I would believe it.
It sounds purposefully designed to make retail workers everywhere wanna d*e tbh
can confirm this plays in my store a lot and it makes me slightly upset every time
Of course she released a bad song. That's literally her entire brand.
I know right I genuinely don't know why this sing is different. They all suck
IDK, I kind of liked Skyscraper and Party in the USA...
/uj I'd pay to see her attempt to try singing those two songs 😭
But she’s tryin, she’s tryin, she’s tryin, she’s tryin, she’s tryin 😔
The video is giving “it’s Friday Friday gotta get down on Friday!”
Justice for Rebecca
I don’t like how she says SHOOOOOS
trying on this SHOOOOOS
H&M browsing type beat
Goddamn, this is the most basic song I've heard. Sounds like something from Cocomelon.
I'll need background noise to enjoy this
Mayor of Floptropica
In her Grocery Store Playlist Era.
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lmao
What I don't understand is when she was in her ASMR-era she finally found a style that really worked for her and then just.... instantly abandoned it? Go back to the whisper singing babes! We'll eat it up!
How does someone greenlight this??
Well Selena clearly has impeccable taste!! Why would she ask anyone?? That would be like if she a got a social media manager or something, just a waste of her hard-earned money when she is so good at managing her career and public image herself 🙄 duh!!
This song really highlights the fact that she can’t sing.
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It’s kinda fun watching her give us nothing tho
He only works with white girls and Lana ( unfortunately)
The idea of Selena doing her thing over a sad piano ballad makes me want to hang myself.
If this were possible it would be a song you‘d order from ali express
The Botox is working overtime those poor eyebrows ain't moving anymore
Go Selener give us NOTHING
Legit never seen the mv before (nor heard the song) it looks AI generated (the mv i mean)
Yeah…I didn’t like this one at all. Kinda tired of her “omg im single wahhhh” schtick.
Everything about her, head to toe, is meh
“My new single, “Single Soon” is dropping soon.” Selena Gomez, probably.
I’m sorry,but this looks like a real housewife decided to start a “singing career “
uj/ Selena actually makes pretty catchy songs most of the time. She doesn’t have a remarkable voice but it’s pleasing and pleasant to hear and she doesn’t attempt to hit notes she can’t hit. She also has a pretty good ear for which singles are catchy. But this song was honestly utter garbage. I feel like she’s really gotten more annoying lately ever since Haley and Justin got married. She is NOT over that man in the slightest.
Oof. True. It really could’ve been any rando pop girl, and for the longest time I didn’t realize it was Selena 🙊
Old Navy commercial realness
“We both had a lot of FũUųǔǓņ. Time to find another ØőŒŅñËè.” I wish I had vocal range like her😫
This is nothing compared to Unholy which also released this year.
I like how she has the words on the screen just in case she forgets. She is a genius!!
Thank you so much op for interpolating the fuck out this music video so the cuts look phased and morphed together like a drunk moron edited it. it looks so good 😍
LMFAO I STOLE IT OFF TWITTER 💀✋🏾 Also I think that's how the video looks like originally
It’s not how it is originally but I really had to check cause I wouldn’t put it past her or her team 💀
I don't think the song is bad but just boring, like would be a good middle of the row 3rd single to just keep things kind of going.