

“It’s hard to keep doing music when people don’t necessarily take you seriously,” Selena Gomez confessed in the April issue of Vogue. In the 28-year-old singer’s interview that was published online on March 9, Selena couldn’t help but express doubts over her music career that can be traced back to the late noughties, when fans were listening to her iconic voice for the very first time in the theme song for the Disney Channel series Wizards Of Waverly Place. Although she’s now a respected chart-topping artist, Selena told the magazine, “I’ve had moments where I’ve been like, ‘What’s the point? Why do I keep doing this?’”
In general, Selena wanted a do-over in life. “To be honest, I just want to start over. I want everything to be brand-new. I want someone to love me like I’m brand-new,” Selena confessed to Vogue, after sharing a sad anecdote about the last time she felt people liked her for genuine reasons. This was when Selena was still a teenager filming her Disney series, Wizards of Waverly Place, which launched her to fame after its premiere in 2007.
“[The Wizards of Waverly Place co-stars] were there before any of it,” Selena told the Vogue interviewer. “They loved me for me, and they still do. I can’t say that I have that anymore. I can’t meet someone and know if they like me for me.”
More than a year after dropping her last album, Selena has been busy rolling out singles. In Aug. 2020, she teamed up with one of the biggest K-Pop acts in the world, BLACKPINK, and released the sugary pop anthem “Ice Cream.” She then paid homage to her Mexican heritage by releasing three Spanish-language singles — “De Una Vez,” “Baila Conmigo” and “Selfish Love” — in 2021, which will all be part of her first ever Spanish EP titled Revelación that’s set for release on March 12.