Selena Gomez has been making waves this year, from her chart topping Rare album to her upcoming beauty brands, movies and television series. The former Wizards of Waverly Place actress has garnered a strong fan base due to her singing and acting career, and is now proving her power to the world through the release of multiple projects.
Her most recent venture is a collaboration with Kpop tour de force Blackpink and it is written by another very famous name: Ariana Grande.
The bubbly song was written by Grande, singer Victoria Monet, producer Tommy Brown, rapper Teddy Park, writer Bekuh Boom and Selena herself. While the song is one of those meaningless summer ditties, it is already breaking records and as of right now is posed to be one of the biggest hits of the summer.
The song titled Ice Cream sees the members of the girl group: Rose, Jennie, Lisa and Jisoo team up with Gomez to deliver a pop confection that is sure to please their fans. The track dominated social media and even trended highly in Pakistani Twitter and YouTube.
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The addition of Ariana Grande is certainly surprising given that she has never been much of a songwriter, even for her own tracks. In the song she doesn’t contribute vocally but is rather part of the team of writers responsible for this almost three minute long track.
Blackpink on the other hand do appear and it is easy to understand why Selena Gomez and Blackpink weren’t on set together given the current global pandemic. The song has already broken the record for the most views for a female collaboration in 24 hrs.
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Blackpink seem to be taking a leaf out of their book with there being next to no Korean in this song. The girl group has become quite popular with western artists appearing on the albums of Dua Lipa and Lady Gaga.
Selena Gomez, coming off her chart topping Rare album recently released a song with Trevor Daniels called Past Life. She is about to release her make up brand Rare Beauty, inspired by her third solo album.
The beauty line comes with giant Sephora, a cosmetics company, September 3rd. The singer also took a shot at cooking by starting a social distanced cooking show called Selena + Chef where she learns a new recipe each day through zoom calls from a chef and gives money to a charity of the chef’s donation.
The cooking show debuted just this month and has already been picked up for a second season. She has also produced two feature films, the Broken Hearts Galley by Sony starring Stranger Things alum Dacre Montgomrey as well as a film directed by her Wizards of Waverly co-star David Henrie called ‘This is The Year’. She is also expected to begin filming her Hulu murder mystery comedy series “Only Murders In The Building” in October.
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