Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco: an album that is a couple profile

You know i Couple profiles on social mediamanaged by both partners for demonstrate their happiness and love between sweet phrases and photos that always portray them together and always smiling? Here, to want to find a comparison “I Said I Love You First”, the joint album of Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, is exactly a record that sounds just like a couple profile.

The former Disney star and the award -winning US rapper and producer, 100 million copies sold all over the world thanks to his work with artists such as Avicii, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, The Weeknd and many others, met in 2019, when together with the Puertician manufacturer Tainy and the Colombian singer Jak Single “I Can’t Get Enough”. But it was only four years later, in 2023, that love broke out between the two, immediately declared to the four winds: “It’s my everything,” she commented on social media. .We would not even be interested in gossip, if it were not for the fact that “I Said I Love You First” is nourished by Gossip, which will be released this Friday, March 21stanticipated by the hit “Call Me When you break up”: in less than a month the song, published at the end of February and engraved together with Gracie Abrams, has totaled over 30 million streams on Spotify, feeding the joint album of the Star couple of expectations.

The stages

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco, 32 years old she (considered one of the most loved pop stars of her generation, that of the boys raised by looking at Disney Channel “The wizards of Waverly”, “Hannah Montana”, “Zack and Cody at the Grand Hotel”) and 37 he conceived “I Said I Love You First” as A diary that traces all the stages of their love story. It is no coincidence that as the first single they chose “Call me when you break up“, In which Selena offered to help (ex) friend after the end of the previous story of the latter, only to end up to bind sentimentally to him, and that the two chose” as a second anticipation “Sunset Blvd“:” Sunset Boulevard will always be a special place for us, “wrote the former Disney star on social networks revealing that it is in that place that she and Blanco have had their first appointment.

A window on their relationship

The other twelve songs included in “I Said I Love You First” will offer fans “a single window on their relationship», Anticipates the press release. «The album was born organically from their finding themselves well to work together creatively, allowing them to produce art that reflects their experiences authenticly. He tells their story: before meeting, falling in love and then looking to the future together ». Alright.

But musically speaking, what does the album say?

Beyond this, musically speaking the disc represents an interesting operationfor both artists. Selena Gomez has been in search of a record relaunch for years: it hasn’t released an album for four years – it was 2020 when “rare” came out – and with the production of Benny Blanco, capable of ranged from pop to Urban, from electronics to R&B, can demonstrate all its versatility. For Blanco, vice versa, “I Said I Love You First”, with the presence on her side of a pop star like Selena Gomez, represents an opportunity to get out of the pop buttons room of these years and put your face on it.