Gomez can't belt the high notes like many of her peers, but "Hands to Myself" illustrates how her feathery swoons and breathy whispers can be just as effective. And after she spends two minutes making her lover feel like he's in control, toying with his sense of pride, her contradictory admission "I mean I could, but why would I want to?
This is also Gomez's own favorite song on "Revival" and the noted favorite of Taylor Swift , Gomez's best friend and our generation's preeminent singer-songwriter. Gomez has historically had trouble making non-irritating dance anthems. Much of her early discography was populated by excessive EDM-flavored songs, most of which felt like sequined outfits she was handed to try on. In recent years, she has triumphed when she ignores that urge and bucks radio trends.
Gomez broke that tradition with "Dance Again," a song explicitly designed to make you want to shimmy and groove, and it does exactly that — not just effectively, but irresistibly.
If you don't find yourself at least bopping your head to that sparkling 70s bass line in the chorus, you're probably not much fun at parties. It's a deliriously pleasant listening experience, to be sure, but perhaps the song's greatest triumph is how it feels like an honest reflection of Gomez's soul — that swirling, starry-eyed ether that has made her one of our most relatable and endearing celebrities.
It's difficult to translate that kind of magic into music, and yet she accomplished it in three minutes and 12 seconds. Gomez delivers a slightly bratty, slightly pained variety of attitude on this post-breakup bop — clearly taking cues from experimental-pop darling Charli XCX, a cowriter and background vocalist on the song.
That "Same Old Love" doesn't blend into "Revival's" track list is a good thing. It proves how she can bend different genres to her will, how malleable her voice can be, and how she's willing to abandon molds and expectations to follow her many-hued artistic instincts.
It ain't me. Gomez lends a sense of authenticity to Kygo's formulaic folk-pop production. Her imperfect voice is actually a strength here: It strains and crackles, lilts and soars, beautifully contrasting the glossy dance floor bait and making you believe every word of her righteous indignation.
As Sal Cinquemani noted for Slant magazine , Gomez is at her best on "Revival" when she reinterprets well-worn pop music tropes with sincerity and self-awareness — that is, an awareness that no human experience is straightforward or correct, that every emotion has layers and grooves.
That strength is illustrated on "Perfect," a song that Gomez described as so deeply personal that she almost left it off the album entirely. As highlighted in its eclectic karaoke-themed music video , it revels in its own Eurodisco weirdness. Whether or not she has been the main writer on most of her songs, she has played a major role in writing them.
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