Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have announced a new collaborative album, ‘I Said I Love You First’ – find out more below.
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To celebrate Valentine’s Day, the couple – who recently got engaged – shared the blockbuster announcement that will mark Selena Gomez’s anticipated return to music. ‘I Said I Love You First’ is due for release on March 21 – you can pre-save and pre-order the album here.
The album is previewed by the short but sweet ballad ‘Scared Of Loving You’, which is accompanied by an official lyric video featuring footage of the power couple. The song was written by Blanco, Gomez and Finneas.
‘I Said I Love You First’ will chronicle the couple’s “love story” – they worked together on several of her hit songs dating back to 2015’s ‘Same Old Love’. The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in December 2023, with Gomez confirming that she had been seeing the producer for about six months. They announced their engagement in December 2024.
Gomez – who has long been asked about her return to music, but has continually denied having anything planned – wrote on Instagram: “I always trick you guys 
my NEW album I Said I Love You First with my best friend @itsbennyblanco, is out on 3/21”
Most recently, she revealed to fellow actor Saoirse Ronan that while she thinks she’s “a little too old for the pop star life” now, she’ll “always have music in my life because my partner’s a musician, and I love having moments to do it for fun.”
She continued: “I definitely think my strong suit is probably acting. But one thing I’m proud of in music is being able to tell a story — my favorite songs are mostly ballads, and they’re very transparent and honest. But I think I might be a little too old for the pop-star life. I’m genuinely so happy to just be in this new era of my life, because in a lot of ways, it’s just the beginning.”
She previously said that her music career “isn’t going away”, but that she’d like to focus on acting as she gets to hold on to her “sanity” as acting would allow her to tell other people’s stories rather than her own through music.
Previously speaking to NME‘s Alex Flood to promote her latest film Emilia Perez with Zoe Saldaña, she was asked for an update on new music as her last album, ‘Rare‘, had arrived back in 2020. When asked about a new album, Gomez replied: “Well, if I had one, I would love to talk about it. I think right now it’s been really nice focusing on this side of the playing field. We’ll see, you never know.” – read NME‘s full chat with Gomez and Saldaña here.
In a three-star review of Emilia Perez, Sophia Butcher wrote for NME: “You’ve probably never seen a movie like Emilia Perez before – and whilst there is enough meat in the performances to make you somewhat glad you did, you might not want to again.”
Emilia Pérez has achieved a record 13 nominations for this year’s ceremony, including Best Film, Best Supporting Actress for Saldaña, and Best Actress for Karla Sofía Gascón – the first openly Transgender person to be nominated for the category.
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