Selena Gomez said she's thinking about retiring from music in her new cover interview with Vogue. It’s angelic. “It’s a huge task. Pop superstar, actress, and producer Selena Gomez takes the cover story of American Vogue Magazine‘s April 2021 edition lensed by fashion photographer Nadine Ijewere. 1 . Also, I suggest, her essential Selena Gomez–ness, the way she transmits her selfhood as readily and simply as a lamp gives off light, was there from the beginning. (Before each recording session for Revelación, she did an hour with a Spanish coach and an hour with a vocal coach. Family Matters She can only try to fulfill this plan with an open heart. Magazine. It was delayed, perhaps, because of ambient pressure to not alienate parts of her audience. To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Why do I keep doing this?’ ‘Lose You to Love Me’ I felt was the best song I’ve ever released, and for some people it still wasn’t enough. “I think I spent so many years just trying to say the right thing to people for the sake of keeping myself sane,” she says. To cheer them up. } if ( localStorage.getItem(skinItemId ) ) { “Intense week this turned out to be,” I say. Two days previously, at the behest of President Trump, an armed right-wing mob had stormed the Capitol, fueled by online conspiracy theories about a stolen election. “I’m very, very spiritual,” she says. That is a violating feeling.”. Thanks to her paternal grandparents, whom she still—pre-pandemic, at least—visits in Texas frequently, she was fluent in Spanish as a child, but she lost the language after she started going to school. Gomez grew up in a neighborhood that was mainly Mexican-​American, like her dad’s family. For the cover she wore Saint Laurent Spring 2021 RTW Dress (Not available yet). “It’s easier for me to sing in Spanish than to speak it,” she says.) She filmed a quarantine cooking show for HBO Max, called Selena + Chef, in which each episode features a famous chef teaching Gomez how to cook a dazzling meal via videoconference. The author Karla Cornejo Villavicencio, who wrote the dazzling, defiant 2020 book The Undocumented Americans about this very subject, tells me, “My dad was an undocumented delivery man on Wall Street, and he catered galas for the fanciest New York City families, and very important men sent him to the freight elevator with the trash because they didn’t think he was human.” She sent her book to Gomez because she felt a kinship—“another Latina young woman who was self-made and clever and beautiful and successful and kind, who struggled and reinvented herself and metabolized her suffering in her art”—and sensed that Gomez understood the elemental sin of this dehumanization. Her presence—her prudence, her sweetness, her sadness—is the movie’s anchor, which lifts after 45 minutes and sets the whole thing adrift. For the session Selena is wearing selected looks from top brands such as Saint Laurent by Anthony Vaccarello (cover), Dior, Hermès, Gucci, Alberta Ferretti, Salvatore Ferragamo, and Etro. Coming off a dramatic year, Selena Gomez opens up about the pressures of performing, what it feels like to record again, and the simple things that make her happy (hint: not Instagram). “Either I didn’t care or I just was not recognizing the importance of who’s running our country, and that’s really scary to think about.” In a conversation with vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris, she explained that she hadn’t previously been educated on the importance of voting. She’s watched the series through many, many times. She’s very moral. Selena Gomez has a new Spanish-language EP entitled Revelacion coming out this week. This is partly because her music is autobiographical: It’s an avenue for Gomez to reveal herself on her own terms and conditions. Gomez woke up with two significant scars—one on her abdomen and the other on her thigh, where the surgeon had removed a vein—and the jarring news that she had, for some time there, been fairly close to the edge. They’re humans—they’re people,” she says. But the fact that it’s coming out during this specific time is really cool,” she says. “It felt like someone was pissing all over our history. Selena Gomez wants to change that with her latest collaboration with Puma. Gomez’s Disney Channel days are far behind her, but she still gets “this haunting feeling” that she can’t escape her child star image. “She’s just working. “My first engagement with Selena was revelatory: She expressed an honest disengagement with traditional politics while also showing a hunger for solving real, painful problems,” says Abrams. (An impossible task when you have more Instagram followers than almost every country in the world has people: When Gomez posted in protest of the abortion bans that swept the deep South in 2019, her comment section flooded with vitriol as well as love.) } What I’ll say is, a lot of artists generate emotion through power—what’s different about Selena is that she generates emotion through subtlety.”. Selena Gomez On The Set Of Only Murders In The Building In… Selena Gomez Out In New York. “I can’t function unless I’m working,” she tells me. Rebecca Scott In Bikini On The Beach In Miami. Selena Gomez has been revealed as the star of Vogue's April 2021 issue, photographed by Nadine Ijewere. Throughout this, Gomez continued to work: acting in movies, routinely going platinum with her music, producing projects like Netflix’s controversial hit 13 Reasons Why. It’s a lifestyle that both exposes and insulates: Gomez seems acutely attuned to cruelty in all its forms, emotional and political, and also stunned by it every time. My grandpa was working construction, hiring hundreds of people, and still they were living on the edge, covering up how scary it was.” Gomez remembers being a teenager, at a Shania Twain show in Vegas with her dad, when a stranger yelled that her dad was a wetback. The Hope Of A Happier Time: TOM FORD Spring Summer 2021 Collection, DESIGN SCENE ISSUE 035: SIGN OF THE TIMES. Gillian Anderson – 2021 Critics Choice Awards Portrait. After greeting me hello—she speaks in a surprisingly low, laconic register, the opposite of the breathy meringue of her singing voice—Gomez pulls a cloth mask over her face. For the past few years, Gomez has been criticizing social-media companies for the way their platforms intensify despair and aggression; more recently, she’s castigated Facebook for allowing COVID-19 misinformation to spread. Gomez maintains steadiness in part by avoiding social media. In 2018, he shocked fans when he wed Hailey after splitting from Selena months earlier. Gomez is wearing a cream-colored sweatshirt and sweatpants and fuzzy Uggs; she’s drinking a chai latte from Starbucks. She’d flown back to Los Angeles for the holidays, to her house, where she’s been riding out the pandemic with two friends who live with her and her maternal grandparents, who’d come to visit just before lockdown and ended up moving in. When Gomez championed the book, lending it her endorsement and speaking about it in interviews and on Instagram, it was “a special moment for thousands of Latinx youth, many of them undocumented and queer. Home of magazine editions DSCENE and DESIGN SCENE – find out more in our about section. … And my main focus was really politics, and making sure I took it seriously.”, Gomez, at 28, is in the middle of a political awakening. I find myself, as many fans and casual observers of Gomez have found themselves, wanting to protect her, to make her happy, to cheer her up. _g1.classList.remove('lazyload'); And she sounds amazing.” Revelación melds the percussion patterns and the instinctual pulse of Latin music with strings and piano, all beneath the forthright melodies that have become Gomez’s signature. “I started crying,” she says. Selena Gomez will release her first Spanish language EP titled Revelación on March 12th, 2021. As you can tell, she’s not a party-political person. Did KAMALA HARRIS Land The Cover of American VOGUE? “She has this tone that’s so distinctive,” Tainy says. This time last year, Gomez had been days away from releasing Rare—technically her sixth album, but her third solo one, after 2015’s Revival, which cemented Gomez’s transition from a mover of studio product to an artist with a point of view. There’s been a complete division,” she says mournfully. Gomez has recently spoken about the fact that her paternal grandparents were undocumented. Videos have been circulating, in the flourishing ecosystem of the Selena Gomez fan internet, of Gomez in New York, the day the election was called for Joe Biden, saying that no human is illegal; in another video, she’s in the back seat of a car, smiling deliriously, singing Miley Cyrus’s “Party in the U.S.A.”. And even with all of this, she knows, she’s barely even started. Gomez, approaching the end of the third hour of the 10,000th interview she’s done in the 28 years of her life, brings the pastor Rick Warren’s book The Purpose-Driven Life down the stairs, along with a spiral-bound journal with desert flowers on the cover and the lines “You Are Here. She still has a hard time with late-night anxiety: the kind where you forget how to sleep and start thinking about what you want, what you have to do to get there. 1 . Ad Choices. The confidence came first; then came the confidence to let it drop. I can’t say that I have that anymore. “The parts that I want are the ones I need help with. Selena Gomez for Vogue Selena Gomez posed for the April issue of VOGUE. Selena Gomez for Vogue For this shot Selena wore Christian Dior Spring 2021 RTW (Not available yet), Hermes The Three Graces Scarf ($435.00), Lisa Eisner Toumaline Waterfall Earrings ($9,500.00). Selena Gomez – Revelacion Album Photoshoot, 2021. Selena Gomez For Vogue Magazine, April 2021. I want to give it one last try before I maybe retire music. She realized that she couldn’t understand the problem or work through it without help. _g1 = document.getElementById('g1-logo-mobile-inverted-source'); “In that, she embodied the most powerful voter­—one who comes to participation because she knows better is both possible and her right.”, It was especially remarkable given the fact that Gomez had never voted before 2020. DESIGN SCENE is curated as a daily fashion, design & lifestyle destination. But, because of the way I was raised, I just can’t help but think, I wish I could give people what I have.”. It’s partly a matter of her face, which remains stubbornly youthful: Even when she’s going full bombshell, you can still imagine her cheeks surrounded by flowers and cartoon hearts. She was preparing to launch Rare Beauty, her makeup line, which promotes the message of the album as well as of Gomez’s general public platform: that everyone is special and worthy of love as they are. What a masterwork of casting it was, Selena Gomez in Spring Breakers in 2013. After that decision, it was instant freedom. SELENA GOMEZ for Vogue Magazine, Mexico December 2020 Selena Gomez Latest Pictures, Style, Outfits, Clothes and Photos. Your email address will not be published. All rights reserved. 1 . I was tired of seeing other people’s lives. (She tells me that she didn’t hesitate to share this with the public, because she knew there were “a million people my age” who were in the same boat.)