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- Record Label: SMG Music/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope
- Release Date: Mar 21, 2025
- Summary: The debut full-length collaboration between Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco features guest appearances by Gracie Abrams, J Balvin and Tainy.
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- Record Label: SMG Music/Friends Keep Secrets/Interscope
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Mar 21, 2025Kept to a trim 35 minutes, there’s actually surfeit of highlights on display – each track lands, while owning an incredible sense of breadth.
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Mar 27, 2025Becoming an adult means selecting the aspects of childhood you would like to hold on to, and maintaining them on your own terms. The autobiographical style of Rare and I Said I Love You First proves that Gomez has accomplished this task, making music in a way that works for her.
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Apr 4, 2025Her most fully realized album yet and a highlight in a career dotted with really good pop records.
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Mar 23, 2025A willingness to wear many hats and Benny Blanco's dreamy production help usher in Selena's best project yet.
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Mar 25, 2025I Said I Love You First is quite scattershot, an odd collection of songs that sound like other songs, incongruous spoken interludes, and one random reggaeton track (“I Can’t Get Enough”) first released in 2019.
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Mar 27, 2025Though the duo occasionally strike gold, too many of these songs ultimately sound like pop as tabloid fodder.
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Mar 21, 2025It’s all pretty well done, but it means that a project that’s clearly very personal ultimately struggles to develop a clear identity of its own.