I heard this for the first time last night and INSTANT LOVE. This is how I felt with Dance Like We're Making Love by Ciara, which is one of my favourite songs of the year. So sultry that it allows her voice to play to all of its limited strengths, but as sexy as it is, it doesn't feel like it's being pushed in your face in an explicit way, instead just kind of teasing you with sex appeal. SO GOOD.

 

I've never thought she was particularly sexy until this video either but that fringe works WONDERS, she looks smoking.

I have my hands to myself, where are her hands? :wub:

I think to get a hit single in the UK she would need to release Me + My Girls.

I think this is her best shot at a hit, it's already starting to blow up with no airplay right now. Sober as single #4 afterwards please.

Me & Ny Girls is perfect for a start of summer release. The world needs Selena bangers. She can release Sober end of august

Me & My Girls, Sober, Me & The Rhythm and probably Survivors ALL need to be released </3

Oh Selena, what are you doing to me -_-. Just checked out the video and the song's grown so much - stylistically it suits her SO well and the visuals only complement that. When she gets it right, she completely nails it, but having a track as half-baked and generally awful as 'Same Old Love' in the middle of things makes it hard to properly buy into this whole 'revival' she's pushing (I should really get around to listening to the album to get off this rollercoaster of a singles run as a basis of judgement)!

 

As an aside, it's quite cool that the relationship/break-up between herself and Justin is essentially responsible for them both reaching critical/cultural/commercial peaks (in the US at least) at the same time.

 

SOL has done amazing in the US though... considering it's almost un-listenable.

sfggggggg

 

not familiar with her other songs other than good for you but does she always sing in that sorta sappy voice? can't explain it but it's v distinct n I like it

this is utterly INCREDIBLE

 

perhaps the best she's ever put out?! such an intelligently-composed track, the little, the shade, the backward facing melodies...

What's a backward facing melody when it's at home?

Agreed with the general consensus that this is one of the best things (if not the very best) she's done. It's one of those songs that just grows and grows and doesn't feel like it'll tire at any point. It helps that this sort of sound is really "in" right now. Justin's 'Sorry' & Pia's 'Touch' are both amazing too. But I actually think this trumps both of those!

What's a backward facing melody when it's at home?

an in joke you failed to receive the memo for

sfggggggg

 

not familiar with her other songs other than good for you but does she always sing in that sorta sappy voice? can't explain it but it's v distinct n I like it

Not really, she's perfected it on this album. There are flecks on Stars Dance (in Undercover for example), her last album, but I think the reason this album is so good is that she has really found herself (even if I've admittedly loved all her albums). She doesn't have the greatest voice but on this album she really plays with her lower register which is her strength, I think she sounds so coy and playful and sexy on this and Good For You in particular.

I MEAN I COULD BUT WHY WOULD I WANT TO?!

The only thing 'Revival' is missing is a dance pop number... and 'Me & The Rhythm' does not count... the nearest thing to it is 'Kill Em With Kindness' and again, no...

Yeah, I really like this. She definitely plays to her asthmatic lamb vocal range on it, I love the deadpan "UH, UH" cooing and the slow build of the beats.

Asthmatic lamb! :lol:

The only thing 'Revival' is missing is a dance pop number... and 'Me & The Rhythm' does not count... the nearest thing to it is 'Kill Em With Kindness' and again, no...

Why does the album need a dancepop banger tho? It would be so out of place on Revival

Agreed. I like this album due to the fact we don't have any massive dance-pop bangers. Obviously it'd be very welcomed, but if it doesn't fit the theme or mood she was going for with the album, I don't see why she'd need to add one? It's actually quite refreshing!