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It’s onerous to think about anybody aside from Selena Gomez singing her empowering 2011 hit “Who Says,” but it surely seems that the track virtually went to another person. At Twilio’s SIGNAL convention on Aug. 23, per Elle, Gomez revealed that she needed to combat to have the ability to file the observe.
“It’s actually a funny story: I was working with Disney at the time, and they were actually giving the song to another artist,” Gomez mentioned. “And I cried — I remember, I was with my mom — because I loved the song so much. I basically said to my label, ‘I feel like my fans are young and they need it.’ That’s all I kept saying because I was 16 at the time. I was like, ‘I think my fans really need it; tell [them] my fans really need the song.’ And so maybe it just didn’t work out with the other artist, but that [getting “Who Says”] was a gift to me that I did not know I needed.”
Gomez’s account of the scenario holds up on inspection. In a 2011 interview with MTV, Gomez opened up concerning the inspiration behind the track, saying, “I felt like my fans need this song right now . . . With bullying, with cyberbullying, with all the negativity that is in high school and dealing with things, you’re already trying to figure out who you are; it doesn’t help when people are constantly trying to tear you down. And I’m dealing with it, of course. I’m going through it as well.”
Gomez went on in her current Twilio SIGNAL interview to debate how the track has impacted her over time. “I love, love that song, and it has carried with me through my whole career, and I fought for it,” she continued. “So to be honest, I, to this day, need to hear it. Not by me. Like I don’t want to hear myself sing it. I’m just saying, the message it will last and last because it’s the truth. It’s such a special song.”
Of course, Gomez has launched many different hit songs over time, and she or he’s now gearing as much as launch music as soon as once more. Her newest single, “Single Soon,” dropped on Aug. 25, and extra music is ostensibly on the best way.
Watch the “Who Says” video beneath.
