(audience clapping)
- All right, well do you wanna hear her?
You gotta sit down at some point, you gotta sit.
That's amazing. Does that happen like in Target?
Like-- - No, no.
- You just walk in and you are like,
"well thank you, I arrived, I did."
- Half the time, they are like, "is that her?"
- That's always, they never--
- I've never, sweats and everything, yes.
- But, we're both from Texas.
You recently were in Texas again, right?
- [Selena] Yeah
- Because you don't live there anymore, right?
- No, I have a house there for, you know,
if I wanna go see family and stuff because I still do.
But, I've slowly moved my family out here so it's working.
- Clever.
(laughs)
- But yeah, I just for some reason I wanted to back
to my middle school, I wanted to go back
to my childhood home, which I do often, and--
Oh yeah, that was me bothering the class.
(audience laughs)
And I got to just be there and say, you know like,
I was here and I never ever thought that I could be
where I am now.
It was just really neat to see.
And my teachers remembered me and one of them
just ripped me, she was like, "I remember she was like,
I'm gonna go do this movie. I was like yeah, right.
She just wanted to lie and get out of school."
- That was, I went back to my school.
I remember my algebra teacher, Miss Tover, was like,
"who you gonna, how are you gonna know what they're
doing with your money, if you're gonna make all this money
when you're old."
I was like, "I'll pay someone to do it and hope they
don't screw me over."
(laughing)
- [Selena] Exactly.
- I was like, and then I saw her and I was like,
"still hoping!"
(laughing)
It was like, I don't know.
But you went to your childhood home, is that kind of
special for you?
- [Selena] Yeah.
- Like where you grew up.
- It was so, well I try to go there often,
just because it's nostalgic for me.
And I've gone every year or so.
Well, there's me!
(laughing)
But I grew up there and everything started from there.
So I actually got to knock on the door and someone
was finally there, because no one's ever there.
It was just this chilled dude and he's like,
"yeah, come look around."
He was so unfazed that I was there,
He's like, "yeah apparently you wrote on this wall."
He goes, "also there's a crib in the garage if you want it."
- [Kelly] What? - I was like, "my crib?"
He was like, "yeah."
I was like, "my crib is in your garage?"
He goes, "yeah."
I was like, "can I have it?"
He goes, "sure"
I'm like, he has all this stuff.
And I had written in the closets that I was in love with
Cole Sprouse.
(audience laughs)
- [Kelly] I am older than you, who is that?
- Cole Sprouse was on "Sweet Life With Zack And Cody".
- Okay, I know that, yes.
- And I was obsessed with that show.
And I thought we were gonna be together, one day.
(laughs)
- Then I guest starred on the show, but I kissed his brother
and I didn't get to kiss Cole.
(audience sighs)
- I always feel bad for y'all.
I hate acting so like, I don't know how you do it.
- He was my first kiss.
- Like, you don't know where their mouths have been.
Oh my gosh!
- Yeah!
(audience laughs)
- Your first kiss was with a stranger and actor?
That's fine! - On camera!
(laughing)
- Oh my God!
- It was one of the worst days of my life.
- You know what, mine wasn't acting and it wasn't camera.
Mine was horrible.
It was like he was searching for something with his tongue.
It was, yeah.
- Oh gosh!
(audience gasps)
- I was like, "there's nothing in there,
it's just my mouth."
like, and I literally went and spit in his bathroom,
it was horrible.
You said that this album is your most honest album.
So why do you think so?
- Because I started so young, there's a huge part of me
that didn't get a chance to develop my identity in a
normal setting.
So when I was working with Disney, it was the best time
of my life and I had a great time, I had nothing but
good things to say.
But it was a bit more controlled.
There were certain things that I was, you know,
kind of had to do and not maybe, go into,
like figuring out what my sound would be.
So I've constantly been trying to make my music
better and better because, you know,
I know that people may not think that I'm the
greatest singer but I just worked my ass off and
I love, I really love writing and creating.
And creating melodies and growing.
And I felt like this was my chance to say all the things
that I wanted to say in that way,
which was talking about relationships, and talking about
difficult times, or being vulnerable,
or being stuck in your head.
Because, you know, I can do that a lot.
But I wanted it to feel good.
You know, I wanted it to feel like every word mattered
and you could feel it physically.
And I'm still in the studio actually now,
because I feel like it's inspired me and I just
wanna keep going.
- A creative time, yeah.
- [Selena] Yeah.
- Ain't that funny, you make an album,
that always happens with me too.
I make an album and then after I'm releasing it,
like right while I'm doing it, I'm doing another one.
- [Selena] Yeah exactly.
- It always happens like that.
- I'm like, I don't just--
- But I wanna point something out because,
doing the voice especially, has been really interesting
because a lot of people always think, 'cause you said
"I know people might not say I'm the best singer"
The best singer in the world, talking to everyone
in the world right now, is not the loudest, and is not the
"oh my God you've just sang Whitney Houston" every time
you get.
The best singers in the world move you.
And that comes from all different sounds and styles.
So like, from a singer to a singer,
it's beautiful what you do and I love your record
and I love big, huge songs.
But I love singing your music,
it means something and it moves people.
So don't ever negate your gift, because it's powerful.
- [Selena] Thank you.
(audience claps)
(audience cheers)
- That's what I wanted to say to that.
(audience clapping)
but whenever I first heard "Rare" I was in a car
and I was listening to Spotify or something.
And I was like, "what?"
And I knew it was you 'cause I got all your music"
but I was like, "what is this whole idea."
like, as a writer myself, what a concept that nobody's
ever done.
- Thank you.
Like, I mean, why did that, did that word just
stick out for you?
- Yeah, I felt like, you know, that song actually
came into fruition four years ago so.
- Wow.
- It stuck with me throughout creating this album
because, I like the kinda song that says,
"look, I'm not perfect."
You know, but I do know that I deserve the best.
- I'm special though.
- Yeah, and I think that is so, it's such an important
thing to say.
It's like, I need that.
You know, I've compared myself to people for years
and if feel like I'm, you know, sometimes get insecure
and I get, you know, I go through normal things.
And it's just that word means so much to me,
because that's exactly what it means.
It means that every single person wasn't meant to be
like everybody else, kind of thing.
- Yeah.
- Like you were saying to me, wow I guess I'm now
saying it back myself.
(audience laughs)
But it's true, you know, you are each created to be
who you are meant to be, and that's that, you know.
- And I think until you believe that you are rare,
no one else will.
- [Selena] Yeah.
- And that's what I love about it.
It's an empowering anthem.
Like I love, I love, like I told you in the room.
It takes a lot to get me on a treadmill.
And I'm like, "I've gotta have a good record"
And I've been jamming your record literally, just non-stop.
So it's a really great record.
But you also have a new beauty line,
and it's called "Rare Beauty"
- Yeah.
- [Kelly] Rare Beauty.
(audience cheers)
- I cannot wait to try it, 'cause I'm actually
highly allergic to a lot of makeup.
But what got you into the beauty world?
- At first off I had such a connection with my fans,
and most of the time it's talking about real things
that they're experiencing.
And when I wanted to do this thing, I wanted to actually
create a lifestyle with it.
I wanted a line that was simple,
and that was hyper-allergenic.
- [Kelly] Thank you.
- And not tested on animals, nothing.
I wanted it to feel like every girl can wear it,
whoever wants to wear it.
But you could also build coverage.
So it's simple stuff to just help you know how to do
the go-to thing.
And it's beautiful and it's encouraging.
You know, I have so many ideas for it to come,
where it can just be something powerful,
or people can feel good.
- Yeah, it is nice 'cause I didn't grow up knowing
how to do makeup.
There's a lot of girls that aren't, we're like tomboys
and like, didn't do that.
So, it's really cool. - Yeah this is super easy,
- And you have such a huge fan base of women too,
and I love that you're not just about the aesthetics,
you're also about what's inside that counts.
- [Selena] Yes.
- And that's super important.
- Thank you.
- Something super random.
I hear, true or false, you're a fan of "Shark Tank"?
- Yes, I am.
- True!
- I am, that's very true.
- Yeah, how did you get in?
I know a lot of people it's like, you either love
"Shark Tank" or you've never seen it.
It's like once you've seen it--
- One episode, it's a tattoo.
One episode and you're never gonna go back.
- It's addictive.
- I'm just so, all of a sudden I think I'm them.
I'm like, royalties, that's a good one.
Like I would just try to like chime in
as if I knew anything.
But I realized I've owned half the things
that were--
You guys probably owned half the things they've created.
'Cause I just--
- [Kelly] Yeah, and I just don't know it.
- I don't, exactly.
It's been around for so long that I have the sponge,
I got the comfy, I got the pillow.
(laughing)
- You're like that old lady at home, on like,
online shopping.
- I'm like, gotta have that!
(laughing)
Definitely ordering that.
(laughing)
- I need that.
- Yeah, for some reason.
- So your other thing is, which is funny
'cause of our show today.
But another obsession is "True Crime", you love,
like you love "True Crime" so much you went to something
I didn't even know existed.
- Yes.
- Which is CrimeCon.
- Con. Yes.
- What do they do at CrimeCon?
- Okay, so.
They give us a real case and this case--
- What?
- Yeah.
So this case in particular has been reopened.
You're getting to see the interviews and
the interrogation pages from 20 years ago.
Now we're interviewing the same people,
we, it's not my case.
- She's like, "I was leading."
- I was literally just leading, but no.
But it was really interesting.
Like, for going in to see how they, I mean,
but I'm gonna be honest, I'm not good at it.
I was like, "everybody did it."
(laughing)
I mean that's just what I said.
I was like, "no, no, no, he did it."
And they would say some more stuff,
I was like, "they both did it."
I was like, I just--
- Everyone is guilty!
- [Selena] Exactly, exactly, because I was--
- If you get jury duty, don't show up.
- I know, I know, exactly.
(laughs)
- Everyone did it.
- It's just an interesting subject, yeah.