“A bunch of women I look up to and admire are supporting one another”, Gomez, 23, told Flare in its November 2015 cover story. And I do work out. I wouldn’t trust people, and Taylor has a way of stripping down everything and just getting down to being human.
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“I would never go on Tinder!”
On how she defines sexiness: “I have my own definition of what I think is attractive and sexy”. I don’t want to just be somebody you follow on Instagram who can, like, post decent pictures that they have put literally 500 filters on.
With two smash hit albums under her belt we have no doubt that Revival is going to blow up the charts and our playlists. I’m from the South. My mom’s side did the casseroles, the chicken, the squash, and then my dad’s side was full on, like hours of cooking tamales and rice and beans and homemade salsa, and I’d be like, ‘Can we just buy the salsa?’ “I want to be heard, and I don’t want people to see those comments and think they can bring people down, because it’s not right”. “That was a big deal”, Gomez told the magazine, “because they were partnering with me as opposed to trying to mold me or shape me into something”. I’m not any of those things. (Flare, appropriately, is a Canadian magazine.) “Ever since I was 16, I’ve had this lower register, what I thought was a very manly voice, and I was insecure about that”. It’s not that hard – I’m a nice young lady – but that’s not my focus, ‘ Selena insisted. “I feel confident, I feel empowered”. My strength is translating emotion, because I’m such a feeler. “That’s what I wanted the record to feel like”.
Now, Gomez plans on marching to the beat of her own drum.
Selena also spoke about her BFF Taylor Swift and how the Bad Blood pop star has taught her to trust and be more comfortable in social situations.
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The issue goes on sale at newsstands on October 12.
