What’s up?
It’s Emile Ennis Jr. here with Clevver News and in a new interview Selena Gomez talked
about finding the silver linings in quarantine and how she’s actually ‘learned so much’
about herself during this time.
Like all of us, Selena has spent the last few months at home and there have been some
high highs and low lows.
But it seems like she’s been making the best of this situation as she recently opened
up about how this time has made her even more thankful for the blessings in her life.
The conversation started while Selena was promoting her upcoming HBO Max cooking show,
Selena + Chef.
Which she actually recently shared a sneak peak of on Twitter…
“Do you have eggs?
Butter?
Butter.
So you can see what I’m cooking on, electric.
Electric, mine is electric too.
Oh no mine’s fire.
Oh no Selena it’s not an electric stove.
Sorry.”
The show looks both interesting and hilarious as it follows Selena as she touches up on
her cooking skills with professional chefs while self-isolating at home.
But during a virtual summer press tour promoting the show, Selena talked about how she's been
navigating life in quarantine outside of just her cooking adventures.
She said quote, “I think there's been a lot of blessings in the breaking.
It's not easy for anyone to be walking through what we're walking through.
It's not normal.
It's affecting people specifically with mental health.
People who have never thought about things that they’re thinking about now.
It's confusing.”
And while Selena admitted that it was "hard" to get acclimated to this new normal in the
beginning, she's "grateful" for her strong support system.
She said quote, “I have great friends; I see a therapist.
I try to keep my mind positive.
I've learned so much about myself.
I've learned so much about my country than I ever have from school or anywhere.
I've been very grateful for that as well.
A lot has changed.
And I'm 28 now, whatever that means.”
We’re right there with you Sel.
We’re just glad she really seems to be taking care of herself during this time.
Last week Selena also took to Instagram to let her fans know why she’s taken some time
offline.
“With everything going on it felt a little insensitive to post things that may be a little
like joyful or celebratory.
It was just hard for me.
I’ve taken the time to learn, truly learn about what’s going on and I continue to
make that my priority.”
But she also revealed that now that she’s taken some time to process and learn about
everything that’s gone on this year, she’s ready to be a little bit more present on social
media going forward.
“Just letting you know I’m going to be a little bit more involved and you know and
just sending more love and just showing you some more of my personal stuff and what I’ve
been doing.”
And obviously fans are excited to hear more from Selena as she has some very exciting
plans in the works.
First of all, she just announced that her new makeup line, Rare Beauty, is officially
dropping on September 3rd at Sephora.
“I wanted people to feel like makeup is something that you can enjoy, it’s not something
that you need.
And I felt like that’s kind of who I am.”
And we all know about the upcoming cooking show.
But Selena also recently has teased some new potential music projects that got fans REALLY
excited.
Selena, in the form of her Animal Crossing character, made a guest appearance on an Animal
Crossing live stream Wednesday night called Animal Talking.
And she dropped two MAJOR bombshells on the live stream.
One, she's officially working on her next album and two, she and Taylor Swift have talked
about doing a collab.
I REPEAT, A TAYLOR SWIFT SELENA GOMEZ COLLAB HAS BEEN PUT OUT INTO THE UNIVERSE!
I know, VERY exciting stuff.
Let’s start with her new album.
When she was asked about her album Rare, Sel let it slip that she’s already working on
new music.
“It’s funny because I already feel like I’ve been working on the new album so I’m
not in that headspace as much.
But I’m so proud of what we did.
Oh so as we’re all listening to the current album you’re already working on the next
one?
Oh no, I’m not sure if I was supposed to say that.”
Ok we see you and we are ready for you, SG4!
But what’s possibly even more exciting than a new album from Selena is that she mentioned
wanting to collaborate with her BFF Taylor Swift.
When asked who her dream collab would be, here’s what Sel said.
“I’ve always dreamt of doing a song with Taylor.
We both wanted to do that.
It’s just, everything remains in our friendship, you know?
And so, it’s so…
It just feels like we’re family.
I’ve known her for I think 13 or 14 years now.
So she’s been my best friend.
But we’ve talked about it for sure.”
And fans were obviously REALLY excited about a potential Selena x Taylor collab.
One person tweeted saying quote, “Taylena stans rise”
Another fan wrote quote, “im surprised there hasnt been a collab already”
But this person replied with why they think Selena and Taylor haven’t collaborated already
saying “I think they care about their friendship rather than just being friends for publicity
and having a collab and having their relationship evolving only about music.
That's why I think it took time.
It may eventually happen, it may not but in both scenarios it won't cause a problem.”
And Selena even teased the collab further in the interview saying “you never know.”
Honestly, that’s enough to get me through the rest of this week.
It’s the little sliver of hope we needed that we may get a collab between two of our
favorite singers and BFFs and that’s enough for us.
And even if it doesn’t end up happening, it seems like Selena has plenty of exciting
projects in the works for us to look forward to!
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And let us know down in the comments below what you think about all the upcoming projects
Selena is working on.
Which are you most excited about?
I’m your host Emile Ennis Jr., bye guys!