- Excellent writer, excellent production,
her vocals. I can see why she is successful.
- Oh, I just wanna sing with her.
- ♪ (rock intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today, we're gonna have you read lyrics
and then listen to top songs all by one artist
and have you tell us the meaning and what you think.
This artist has had a lot of hit songs,
but we tried to fit a lot of them in here.
- Okay. The younger artists,
the ones that are popular, at least the ones you show us,
seem to have so much more depth.
- I love reading lyrics. I've been doing it
since I was twelve years old.
- It's much easier for me if I know the lyric
before I listen to the music because if I just listen
to the music right away, I can never catch up.
- "How you choose to express yourself, it's all your own
and I can tell it comes naturally. It comes naturally.
You follow what you feel inside.
It's intuitive, you don't have to try.
It comes naturally. Mm, it comes naturally."
- How you express yourself just sort of comes naturally.
It's whatever happens.
- Be yourself. Who you are is
who you should be.
- You have the option to say what you're feeling.
Have it come from internally and don't try to fake it.
Just be true.
- "I'm not too shy to show I love you.
I got no regrets. I love you much too much
to hide you. This love ain't finished yet.
This love ain't finished yet. So baby, whenever you're ready.
When you're ready, come and get it."
Ooh, it's a pretty confident person.
I wish I could say I were that con--
"I got it, so come and get it whenever you're ready."
- This is a person who's willing to be overt
and loves this other person so much that she's
not going to bury it.
- She's ready, but I think there's some
hesitation from the other side,
but just tell that person that it's all good.
- This relationship is not over for her yet,
so he can hang out there if he wants to,
but whenever he's ready to come back,
come on home to mama.
- "The bed's getting cold and you're not here.
The future that we hold is so unclear,
but I'm not alive until you call
and I'll bet the odds against it all."
- "Save your advice, 'cause I won't hear.
You might be right, but I don't care.
There's a million reasons why I should give you up
but the heart wants what it wants."
- She is saying that, "Hey, I'm waiting here.
It's night time. I'm sleeping alone.
I'm tired of sleeping alone."
- A lot of people might be feeling that this man
is not the right man for her, but she doesn't care
'cause she loves him.
- The agony of sitting, waiting around for someone
that you really care about who doesn't care.
It's a one way street. That captures it pretty well.
Not that I've ever been there, of course.
- "I'm a marquise diamond. Could even make
that Tiffany jealous. You say I give it to you hard.
So bad, so bad."
- "Make you never wanna leave. I won't.
Gonna wear that dress you like, skin tight.
Do my hair up real, real nice.
And syncopate my skin to how you're breathing.
'Cause I just wanna look good for you."
- She's a marquise diamond. There's a Tiffany diamond cut.
Diamond, diamond cut, different things.
Yeah, Tiffany's a star on 5th Avenue, actually.
- This is how you sing that how valuable she is.
That not even Tiffany can top that.
- She's obviously gonna work real hard to keep this guy around
and obviously she's really into making him happy.
- She feels like she looks so good that
she'll make him never want to leave her.
- I like that. Us ladies like to dress up
and we like to feel loved and feel beautiful.
- "I was walking down the street the other day
tryna distract myself, but then I see your face.
Oh wait, that's someone else."
- "Tryna play it coy. Tryna make it disappear.
But just like the battle of Troy, there's nothing subtle here"
- So, the battle of Troy was based on the most
beautiful woman in the world, Helen, being stolen
and kidnapped and taken away, so then the Greeks came in
to take her back and it was very--
it was a very horrible, long battle and so she's--
I'm sensing that she's having that same kind of battle
that she can't let it go.
- They're no longer together, but her feeling is constantly
there still.
- She still has feelings for him, but she's trying to get over it.
She's trying to make it disappear.
- "In my room, there's a King size space,
bigger than it used to be. If you want,
you can rent that place. Call me an amenity.
Even if it's in my dreams."
- She's dreaming about the guy apparently
dreaming when she's in bed and he if he wants
to come in bed with her.
- She's in it alone, so it seems bigger
than it used to be because he used to be
on the other side and she's saying
"If you want, you can rent that place."
She's really just saying you can come on back.
- "Call me an amenity" almost sounds like,
"Oh, just use me. Just use me."
"Even if it's in my dreams." So she's obviously
having this enormous longing for him.
- "Took you like a shot. Thought that I could
chase you with a cold evening. Let a couple years water down
how I'm feeling about you. I wanna hold you
when I'm not supposed to. When I'm lying close
to someone else. You're stuck in my head
and I can't get you out of it. If I could do it all again,
I know I'd go back to you."
- She still likes him very much. Love him.
Regardless that who she's with, she only sees the image of him.
- There's definitely a fixation there that she continues
to suffer and she can't move on.
- We have all been to that place where we loved and left
and shouldn't have and regret. That's so hard.
It's just hard. She expresses it really well.
- (FBE) So, do you have any idea whose lyrics
you've been reading? - No.
- I have no idea.
- No. I'm gonna say no.
- I don't know.
- I only know it's not Adele, that's all.
- (FBE) So, these were lyrics to songs from
Selena Gomez's repertoire. - Oh, Selena Gomez.
So I have not studied her lyrics at all.
- (FBE) So, Selena Gomez is not only a successful singer,
but you may know her as a little kid on Barney
and as a teenager on Wizards of Waverly Place.
She's also an outspoken humanitarian who uses
her celebrity platform to promote charities
such as UNICEF. - Okay, yeah.
I think that's more where I've heard of her from.
- It's impressive for someone so young.
It's really-- she has a very large vision.
- (FBE) Well, let's go ahead and play you the songs
you read. - Okay.
- ♪ How you choose to express yourself, it's all you own ♪
- Yeah, I notice her song, that you can actually understand.
- ♪ It comes naturally It comes ♪
- (singing along) ♪ Naturally ♪
- It sounds better when she's singing it
than reading the lyrics.
- ♪ You don't have to try It comes naturally ♪
- Great voice.
- ♪ It comes naturally ♪
- Oh, I just wanna sing with her.
- ♪ I'm not too shy to show I love you ♪
♪ I got no regrets I love you much too much ♪
♪ To hide you ♪ - It's very rare that
I listen to her song. They don't play her song that much.
- ♪ This love ain't finished yet ♪ - Oh.
- ♪ So baby, whenever you're ready ♪
♪ When you're ready come and get it ♪
♪ Na na na na ♪ - It's great.
I like that there's a haunting sound
of the guy's voice in the background.
It's bold, it's fun.
- ♪ Bed's getting cold and you're not here ♪
♪ The future that we hold ♪ - Yeah, once you know
the lyric, you definitely can sing along with her song.
- ♪ And I'll bet the odds against it all ♪
♪ Save your advice ♪ - It's good.
- ♪ I won't hear You might be right ♪
♪ But I don't care There's a million reasons why ♪
♪ I should give you up But the heart wants ♪
♪ What it wants ♪ - It's so interesting
because you miss so much of the lyric when you're
listening to the music.
- She writes very, very well for her age.
I'm not sure how old she is.
When I first started hearing about her,
I think she might have been fifteen.
- ♪ I'm a marquise diamond Could even make that ♪
♪ Tiffany jealous ♪ - It's good that she has
songs that slow and fast, have a bit of tempo.
- ♪ Gonna wear that dress you like, skin tight ♪
♪ Do my hair up ♪ - Real sexy song.
- ♪ Syncopate my skin to how you're breathing ♪
♪ 'Cause I just wanna look good for you, good for you ♪
- See, I love that line, "I'm gonna syncopate my skin
to your breathing." I mean, that's so being
in unison with someone.
- ♪ I was walking down the street the other day ♪
♪ Tryna distract myself ♪ - Her voice is not what
I imagined. I still remember her
as a wizard. That voice is not like this.
- ♪ There's nothing subtle here In my room ♪
♪ There's a king sized space bigger than it used to be ♪
♪ If you want you can rent that place ♪
♪ Call me an amenity Even if it's in my dreams ♪
- Love it, love it. I like the variety
in the tempos and the rhythms.
- ♪ Took you like a shot Thought that I could chase you ♪
♪ With a cold evening ♪ - That's better.
I like that one.
- ♪ How I'm feeling about you ♪
♪ I wanna hold you when I'm not supposed to ♪
♪ When I'm lying close to ♪
- It's funny. It's like she has the echo--
the way she puts the echo there, it's echoing in her head.
- ♪ I know I'd go back to you ♪ - This is very nice.
The last one, of all of them, this is the best.
- Excellent writer, excellent production,
her vocals. I can see why she is successful.
- Thanks for watching us listen to Selena Gomez
on the React Channel.
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