Selena Gomez channeled her best friend Taylor Swift as she revealed her wishes to re-record one of her past songs.
This week, the former Disney star, 33, admitted she cried listening back on one of her songs that she recorded when she was a teenager.
On Thursday’s podcast episode of Therapuss with Jake Shane, she reflected on the time she performed with her band as Selena Gomez & The Scene from 2009 and 2012.
Before going solo, she made three studio albums with the group, including one of her favorite songs she’s ever made — Who Says.
‘It’s the most powerful moment when I get to perform it,’ she said while talking about the lead single off of the group’s 2011 album, When the Sun Goes Down.
During the same podcast episode, Gomez also recalled how she and Taylor Swift became close friends through bonding over their breakups with their famous ex-boyfriends back when they were all teenagers.
Selena Gomez channeled her best friend Taylor Swift as she revealed her wishes to re-record one of her past songs
Gomez, 33, and Swift, 35, have an over decade-long friendship that dates back to 2008; seen in 2008
Gomez, who has not gone on tour since 2016, added: ‘That’s honestly the only reason I would ever do a tour again — to perform Who Says.
‘I need to redo it. I should recut it,’ the Only Murders in the Building star continued.
She also said that she would want to re-record the track because she sounds ‘young’ on the original recording.
‘I would have to take it down an octave from each year I’ve sang it,’ she said.
Gomez also said the song still resonates with her as she recalled how she recently heard Who Says playing on the radio while she was abroad.
When she heard it, she said she started getting emotional.
‘I was like, “Why the f*** am I tearing up to my own song?” But it was because it was the little me who was there saying these really powerful messages that I still need to hear.’
She admitted: ‘That’s a very weird feeling considering back then I loved the song simply because I thought everyone could relate to this.’
‘But I still so appreciate that song because I relate to it in a totally different manner,’ she continued.
This week, the former Disney star, 33, admitted she cried listening back on one of her songs that she recorded when she was a teenager
On Thursday’s podcast episode of Therapuss with Jake Shane , she reflected on the time she performed with her band as Selena Gomez & The Scene from 2009 and 2012
Before going solo, she made three studio albums with the group, including one of her favorite songs she’s ever made — Who Says. ‘It’s the most powerful moment when I get to perform it,’ she said; pictured August 2011
‘You know, it wasn’t necessarily body issues and standards of society back then, but now when you hear those words, they mean a lot more. So I get really excited [to hear the song].’
When Shane encouraged her to re-record the song, she added: ‘I’m so going to do that. Well, we’ll think about it. We’ll see what happens.’
During the same podcast episode, Gomez also reflected on her 16-year friendship with Taylor Swift and revealed the ‘incredible’ song that her best friend played for her before anyone else heard it.
She recalled how they met when she was dating Nick Jonas of the Jonas Brothers and Swift was dating Joe Jonas at the time.
After their respective breakups, she said they became close friends and say that their friendship was the ‘best thing’ they got out of that time.
