- I don't know. Selena as a guy looks very creepy.
- Ohh! It's her parents!
♪ (punk rock music) ♪
- ♪ I was walking down the street the other day ♪
♪ Tryna distract myself ♪ - Oh, Selena.
- Selena Gomez. Okay. I like her new music.
- Oh! This is "Bad Liar."
- "Bad Liar." This video's so funny.
- Oh, I've heard about this music video,
where she, I think, plays all the parts.
- ♪ Bigger than it used to be ♪
♪ If you want, you can rent that place ♪
♪ Call me an amenity, oh, oh, ♪
- It's crazy how young can make herself look.
- She's like 24-ish,
and she looks like she can fit in a high school.
- ♪ Ooooh ♪ - It looks very '70s almost.
- I like the style of this video though.
Like, it's really retro, which I'm into.
- ♪ You're taking up a... ♪ - She's the awkward new kid.
- Oh, the cliche "Oh, I'm an outsider at school."
- Music videos where they're pretending to be in high school
and shit make me cringe so hard,
'cause all the people are like, "Kuh."
And it's like, that doesn't happen.
- ♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', oh ♪
♪ Tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪ - That's also me in chemistry.
(chuckles) Trying, trying, trying.
- Is that her with a wig on?
It is her with a wig on. What? (chuckles) What?
- ♪ No, no, no, no ♪
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
- (snickers) Why does that kid have a mustache?
- Is that her? Is that also her? Is she just everyone?
- Oh, there she is, blonde wig.
And a mustache. Cool.
- ♪ ...give in to you ♪
- Why do they look at her badly?
- ♪ With my ♪ - (singing along) ♪ Feelings on fire ♪
♪ Guess I'm a bad liar ♪ That's a good line.
- ♪ I see how your attention builds ♪
- That's gross! Ew.
- Okay, so there's like a weird relationship happening,
and Selena's trying to figure out what's happening.
- ♪ Paint my kiss across your chest ♪ - It lost me.
- ♪ If you're the art, I'll be the brush ♪
- ♪ Ooh, ooh-ooh ♪
♪ You're taking... ♪
- I like how she looks perfect even though she's doing gym.
- ♪ Oh, I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪ - Oh no. (chuckles)
- ♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪ - I don't know.
Selena as a guy looks very creepy.
- This is definitely not music
I would listen to in my spare time.
- ♪ ...tryin' not to think about you ♪
- Oh, that's creepy. Oh no. That's gross.
- ♪ No, no, no, no ♪
♪ Oh, I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
♪ Oh, tryin' ♪ - And then that's his wife.
- I like how she plays all of the characters. It's so funny.
- I am having a really hard time following the story line,
I'm not gonna lie.
- Oh, that shade face. She is done.
- ♪ With my feelings on fire ♪
♪ Guess I'm a bad liar ♪
- Oh. Oh. (gasps)
Ohh! It's her parents!
- She's seeing her dad having extramarital affairs
with blonde Selena.
- Oh, is he a bad liar? (laughs)
- ♪ ...reality ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh, I'm tryin' ♪
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
♪ I'm tryin', oh ♪ - She's so pretty.
- She's so pretty. It's aggravating.
- ♪ Not to think about you ♪ - It's a good song.
- Who's she trying to not think about?
- ♪ No, no, no, no ♪
♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin' ♪
♪ I'm tryin,' I'm tryin' ♪ - Oh, what's happening?
- ♪ I'm tryin', I'm tryin', I'm tryin,' I'm tryin' ♪
♪ Not to give in to you ♪ - Who doesn't do that?
Parents walk in, act like you're asleep.
- ♪ With my feelings on fire ♪
♪ Guess I'm a bad liar ♪
- Oh, she likes the teacher.
- ♪ Guess I'm a bad liar ♪
- Plot twist.
- ♪ Guess I'm a bad liar ♪
- Oh. Um, I actually didn't see that coming.
That hit me with a curve ball. (chuckles)
I did not see that coming.
- What?! Oh, what?
- I really enjoyed it. (chuckles) It's very entertaining.
- The song's good. I've heard the song before though.
So I was trying to analyze the video.
- The song is-- I feel like it's like a serious song--
not serious, but it just-- I didn't like it. I didn't like it.
And it took me a while to even get what was going on.
And it just kind of distracted from the music,
'cause I was like, "What?"
- (FBE) So there's actually an Easter egg in the video
that a lot of people are talking about. - Okay.
- Is that supposed to be Taylor Swift?
- (FBE) Nothing has been confirmed,
but a lot of people say that it looks like Taylor Swift.
- Huh.
- Oh my gosh. Wait, that's crazy.
I didn't even seen that.
- They're friends, right? So okay, yeah. (giggles)
- I really don't think much of it.
I mean, Selena and Taylor are good friends.
So I mean, she appeared in "Bad Blood."
- I love Easter eggs personally,
whether it's in movie or video games.
I always think they're a really fun thing.
So it's always cool to just look in the background, see like,
"Wait, oh, is that that?"
And then it's like an exciting thing when you see it.
- (FBE) So the plot of this music video
centers around a young girl who is first spying on a man,
who later turns out to be her father,
flirting with a high school basketball coach,
despite being married. And at the end, it's revealed
that the daughter also has a crush on the same coach
that her dad likes as well. What'd you think about the story?
- I mean, it was a very interesting story.
That was a super plot twist for me at the end.
- That's so funny.
It's kind of weird too.
Not weird 'cause she's liking this other girl.
Just weird that she's liking the same person her dad likes.
- Too complicated, and I feel like it kind of matches the song
but not really. When I heard the song first on the radio,
I thought she was talking about a partner.
- It's just so confusing.
At first, I didn't recognize
it was Selena playing all four characters.
Then I'm like, "Wait, the mom looks
exactly the same as the daughter.
And I'm like, "Wait, the mom looks the same as the coach."
Ugh, it's just so many depths and crisscrosses.
- The fact that they're all played by Selena
adds almost like a humorous aspect to it.
So it's less of like an, "Oh, this is really creepy.
They're all fancying the same girl."
Since they're all played by Selena,
it almost turns that really weird situation
into an almost "ha-ha" big misunderstanding!
- I really think that it's cool at the end.
Like, she turned out to be a lesbian.
That's a cool plot twist.
- (FBE) So there's been praise and also criticism
over the lead character, who appears to be lesbian.
Can you talk about when big celebrities
incorporate elements like that? What do you think?
- I mean, personally I don't even think about it,
'cause it's just like, "Oh, okay, whatever. It's just the world."
- It seems to be a thing where people feel like
they have to do it, just to say like, "Oh, we're accepting,"
which is fine if you're accepting.
You don't have to make a political statement
every chance you get.
- It's commendable, and I appreciate it.
But I almost wish it wasn't so commendable.
I wish it wasn't such a novelty. I wish it was done all the time
so it wasn't like, "Wow, congratulations.
Like, LGBTQ representation. Like, you're a star."
You know what I mean? It should just be a thing that happens.
I like how she incorporated it,
'cause it wasn't super "in your face."
It was just like... a thing. It was just like part of it.
- It's really important to have a lot more representation
of a bunch of different sexualities.
But I don't really like the way they handled it
with the kind of inappropriateness of the situation,
which it being a teacher and then a student.
- Any good help towards getting more exposure,
any good help towards getting a positive exposure
with big-name stars I think is great.
It's definitely good for the community.
- I'm the vice president of GSA at my school,
and my younger sister is part of the community and everything.
So I think it's great when people don't try and use it
as like a way to get viral in a sense, you know?
She didn't make it all about like,
"Oh, I'm gay. My character's gay. Oh, praise me because of it."
She alluded to it.
When celebrities use their fame to speak out about stuff
that isn't commonly maybe spoken out about
for people of their status, I think that's awesome.
- (FBE) So finally, can you speak to Selena Gomez
as a celebrity you've grown up with?
And talk about how she continues to evolve
and how you view of her maybe changed over time.
- Oh yeah, completely.
No, I think she's one of the people
who's made a really smooth transition,
'cause she didn't really go overly sexual all at once.
She built almost like a singing career into her Disney life
but then took it just a little bit further
and then a little bit further, and now we're here.
- She made a fair transition without any radical,
weird, crazy changes.
And then throughout the years, her singing has improved.
To certain people, she's still gonna be an icon
for all the significance she's done through her own success.
But for others, she's just like,
"Oh shit, you're doing that now. Cool, good for you."
- No, I've never really followed her whatever,
and I didn't watch any of her shows on Disney Channel.
But I mean, it really is-- she has immensely grown.
And it's really cool to see that someone can achieve their dreams
and just keep going and going and going.
- She also is now a producer of 13 Reasons Why.
So I think that's super cool.
And yeah, her career has just blown up
from when I used to watch Wizards of Waverly Place and be like,
"Oh, she's like my favorite star,"
to now, she's a huge pop star, and she's producing shows.
- Growing up in a world where you're so famous.
She grew up in this world, you know.
It's really easy to just kind of be, like,
using it in the wrong way.
But I think she's using her fame in a really good way
to really support causes and messages that she really is into.
She's doing great, and I support her 100%.
And I love her music. It's great.
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- Hey, everybody. It's Ethan here from FBE.
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You can trust me, 'cause I'm a really bad liar.