Selena Gomez has make clear her relationship with Taylor Swift and the way they bonded over their break-ups with separate members of the Jonas Brothers.
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Gomez dated Nick Jonas for a short spell in 2008, whereas Taylor Swift dated Joe Jonas across the identical interval. These relationships solely lasted a couple of months, and led to Gomez and Swift forging a friendship from the fallout.
Talking to Jake Shane on a brand new episode of the Therapuss podcast, Gomez mirrored on how their break-ups introduced her nearer to Swift. “Taylor and I dated the Jonas Brothers,” Gomez advised Shane.
“I dated Nick, and she or he dated Joe… Everyone knows and love one another now, and it’s so cute. We didn’t know what we had been doing. She and I wish to say the very best factor we acquired out of these relationships was one another.”
“I used to be about 15, she was about 18, and that’s when it was the loopy, curly [hair] Taylor, and she or he had all these bracelets that went all the best way up [her arm]… We turned finest mates, bonded over the breakup, as ladies do. Then we simply caught round for all of the ups and downs that got here after, and right here we at the moment are 16 years later.”
Watch the dialog under.
Certainly, Swift and Gomez’s friendship has remained sturdy all through the years since, with Gomez now engaged to Benny Blanco and Swift courting American soccer star Travis Kelce. Again when Gomez and Blanco introduced their engagement in December final 12 months, Swift commented on their social media submit: “Sure I would be the flower lady.”
Following their engagement, Gomez and Blanco launched the collaborative album, ‘I Stated I Love You First’ which chronicled the couple’s “love story” – they labored collectively on a number of of her hit songs courting again to 2015’s ‘Similar Previous Love’.
The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in December 2023, with Gomez confirming that she had been seeing the producer for about six months.
That album scored a three-star evaluate from NME, with Georgia Evans writing: “Whereas every monitor is fulfilling in isolation, the album struggles to determine a singular voice. And that’s a disgrace, given Blanco’s previous pop supremacy. As an alternative of providing a really revealing glimpse into their relationship – because the album cowl suggests – ‘I Stated I Love You First’ maintains a noticeable distance between artist and listener, and leaves you feeling slightly empty by the top.”
The file adopted Gomez confessing to fellow actor Saoirse Ronan that whereas she thinks she’s “slightly too previous for the pop star life” now, she’ll “at all times have music in my life as a result of my companion’s a musician, and I really like having moments to do it for enjoyable.”
Previous to that, she stated that her music profession “isn’t going away”, however that she’d wish to deal with performing as she will get to carry on to her “sanity” as performing would enable her to inform different individuals’s tales reasonably than her personal by music.
