By the time Selena Gomez released “Lose You To Love Me” and “Look at Her Now,” she knew the music hit at some very honest and personal emotions, thanks in part to the reactions her close friend, Taylor Swift, and Taylor’s mom, Andrea, had to the singles. As Selena recalled during an appearance on KISS FM (via Teen Vogue) in the U.K. this week, she was visiting Taylor, her confidante “for over a decade,” and her parents, (“and I love her family as well,” she said) when she offered to play the videos for the songs. Selena seemed amused when she recounted how Taylor made the casual offer feel more like a formal screening by “turning off every light in the kitchen,” in spite of Selena’s assurances that showing the videos was “not that intense.” Welp, that went right out the window. “And then she played it and her and her mom just started crying,” Selena said. “Like, just tears and tears and all of a sudden, it stopped — and it’s going to make me cry thinking about it — because it wasn’t about how great the song was, which is a lot, coming from her, it was just that they had been on that journey with me intimately. And they were crying because of how proud they were for me stepping into a whole new era of my life and it not involving the horrible things: the abuse, the emotional chaos. It felt like I had a huge sigh of relief. To see her and her mom feel that way, it was very sweet. It’s like an older sister and an aunt proud of their [loved one.] It felt great to have people I love see it as that.” The songs, of course, are widely believed to have been inspired by Selena’s complicated, on-off relationship with Justin Bieber, whom she’d reconnected with shortly before he got serious with his now-wide, Hailey Baldwin. Selena’s new album, “Rare,” is due out Jan. 10.
