{"id":282296,"date":"2019-10-23T12:18:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:18:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1085567"},"modified":"2019-10-23T12:18:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T18:18:31","slug":"revisiting-selena-gomezs-most-powerful-lyrics-to-date","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/revisiting-selena-gomezs-most-powerful-lyrics-to-date\/","title":{"rendered":"Revisiting Selena Gomez’s Most Powerful Lyrics to Date"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Selena Gomez<\/a><\/strong> is back and stronger than ever.<\/p>\n

The singer released her first solo single in over a year on Tuesday\u2014the powerful ballad “Lose You To Love Me<\/a>.” The track, seemingly inspired by Justin Bieber<\/a><\/strong>, is all about healing<\/a> and being unapologetically honest about the emotional turmoil a partner inflicted. And true to Gomez form, it’s another self-love anthem to add to her already lengthy collection of empowering songs.<\/p>\n

Accountability is the name of the game in “Lose You To Love Me.” In a show of self-awareness and growth, Gomez sings<\/a> directly to an ex-lover while simultaneously owning the mistreatment she allowed.<\/p>\n

“You promised the world and I fell for it\/I put you first and you adored it,” Gomez sings. “Set fires to my forest\/And you let it burn\/Sang off key in my chorus\/’Cause it wasn’t yours.”<\/p>\n

Seemingly calling out Bieber’s relationship<\/a> with now wife Hailey Bieber<\/a>, Gomez sings, “I gave my all and they all know it\/Then you tore me down and now it’s showing\/In two months, you replaced us\/Like it was easy\/Made me think I deserved it\/In the thick of healing.”<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The 27-year-old shares what all of this pain taught her when she sings, “We’d always go into it blindly\/I needed to lose you to find me\/This dance, it was killing me softly\/I needed to hate you to love me.”<\/p>\n

If there’s anything Gomez’s career has taught her, it’s how to create an emotionally raw song that hits listeners right in the heartstrings. With her latest emotional gut-punch of a track out in the world, let’s take a look back on Gomez’s most powerful lyrics.<\/p>\n

1. “Who Says”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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In 2011, Gomez released her first foray into self-love<\/a> anthems with “Who Says.” Intended to uplift anyone feeling low, the singer makes you feel like anything is possible in this upbeat track.<\/p>\n

“You made me insecure\/Told me I wasn’t good enough,” she sings. “But who are you to judge?\/When you’re a diamond in the rough\/I’m sure you got some things\/You’d like to change about yourself\/But when it comes to me\/I wouldn’t want to be anybody else.”<\/p>\n

Fully accepting herself, she sings, “I’m no beauty queen\/I’m just beautiful me.” Then she hits fans with some defiantly loving questions in the chorus.<\/p>\n

“Who says, who says you’re not perfect?” she croons. “Who says you’re not worth it?\/Who says you’re the only one that’s hurting?\/Trust me, that’s the price of beauty\/Who says you’re not pretty?\/Who says you’re not beautiful?\/Who says?”<\/p>\n

2. “The Heart Wants What It Wants”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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This 2014 single<\/a> showed a much more melancholy side of the multi-hyphenate. In it, she sings of a toxic love she knows she can’t give up.<\/p>\n

“The bed’s getting cold and you’re not here,” she laments. “The future that we hold is so unclear.”<\/p>\n

Hardship aside, she can’t let it go. “But I’m not alive until you call,” she continues. “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.” Many reasons (perhaps 13?<\/a>) why indeed, and yet, Gomez sings, “But the heart wants what it wants.”<\/p>\n

While not necessarily her most uplifting song, the lyrics are all too realistic for anyone who has a hard time leaving love behind. The song was an instantly relatable hit.<\/p>\n

3. “Kill Em With Kindness”<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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Go ahead, now!<\/p>\n

Gomez put a life mantra to music on 2016’s “Kill Em With Kindness.” In the song, she invoked her “by grace, through faith” Instagram<\/a> bio and urged fans to lead with grace in the face of mistreatment.<\/p>\n

“The world can be a nasty place,” she lays plain in the first verse. “You know it, I know it, yeah\/We don’t have to fall from grace\/Put down the weapons you fight with.”<\/p>\n

In the endlessly catchy chorus, Gomez sings the line “kill em with kindness” on repeat.<\/p>\n

She gets blunt with her listeners in the second verse. “We’re running out of time,” she implores. “Chasing our lies\/Everyday a small piece of you dies\/Always somebody\/You’re willing to fight, to be right.”<\/p>\n

Later in the song, she drives the message of kindness home even further. “Your lies are bullets,” she declares. “Your mouth’s a gun\/And no war in anger\/Was ever won\/Put out the fire before igniting\/Next time you’re fighting.”<\/p>\n

Leave it to Gomez to leave a legacy of life lessons in her music. We won’t have to lose these songs to love her!<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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