Selena Gomez - Lose You to Love Me

Published: Sept. 23, 2020, 5 p.m.

Selena Gomez is a singer, songwriter, and actress, who\u2019s spent most of her life in the public eye. She started her acting career as a child, and put out her first albums as a teenager. She\u2019s had three number one albums and eight Top 10 hits, and in 2017, Billboard named her Woman of the Year. At one point, she was the most followed person on Instagram, and the details of her life are constantly discussed in tabloid headlines.

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So, when your private life is that public, how do you write a song about something as personal as heartbreak? Selena teamed up with the Grammy-winning production duo Mattman & Robin, who she\u2019d worked with before. And she turned to her longtime songwriting collaborators, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter. Julia Michaels is also a Grammy-nominated artist in her own right, and Justin Tranter, also a Grammy nominee, was named BMI\u2019s 2017 Pop Songwriter of the Year. The three of them have written 10 songs together, including this one, \u201cLose You to Love Me.\u201d The song came out in October 2019, and went on to become Selena\u2019s first number-one hit. It went double-platinum in the US, and was named one of the best songs of the year by Vulture and Billboard. In this episode, Selena, Julia and Justin break down how the song came to be, from the first writing session to the final production touches from Finneas.

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