Selena Gomez reveals that she was the inspiration for certainly one of Taylor Swift’s songs.
While showing on her husband and music producer Benny Blanco’s podcast Friends Keep Secrets, Gomez talked about her longtime friendship with Swift and their music connection.
“Well, ‘Dorothea’ is about me, one of her songs. And I feel like a lot of moments — huge moments that were self-defining from relationships to family to love to hate, all of it in between, we were figuring it out because I was 15 and she was 18, and we didn’t really know what was going on. And so we’ve never seen each other any differently. So when I listen to it, I’m so impressed how it’s eloquently put,” Gomez mentioned.
Swift followers have lengthy speculated that the music “Dorothea” from Swift’s Evermore album was about Gomez given the pointed lyrics, together with, “You’rе a queen sellin’ dreams, sellin’ makeup and magazines” and “Your mom and her pageant schemes.” (Gomez’s mother had put her in magnificence pageants at a younger age.)
Swift herself has by no means addressed the hypothesis of the topic of the music however has mentioned that Evermore, often known as the “sister album” to her Folklore album, consisted of “imaginary/not imaginary tales.” Of “Dorothea,” she mentioned it chronicled a “girl who left her small town to chase down Hollywood dreams.”
In addition to “Dorothea,” Gomez additionally revealed that Swift penned an unreleased music known as “Family” greater than a decade in the past that touched on their friendship. Gomez defined that it detailed her having “these amazing dreams” of being in motion pictures however, Swift notes, “in every crowd, I still see you.”
“Then her part was, you believe in my stupid dreams, like playing stadiums,” Gomez added. ”Now, after I hearken to these songs, each of these issues have occurred for us. And that’s actually candy as a result of again then, she was similar to, ‘I wrote this song about us and it was just our story,’ and it was the sweetest factor.”
“It’s absolutely unbelievable to come from 17 years of friendship, from multiple heartbreaks and love stories and fun stories in life,” Gomez mirrored of their friendship. “We both ended up, fortunately, being engaged around the same time and that was the coolest part.”
Gomez additionally shared that Swift gifted her a portray for her thirtieth birthday.
