March 24, 2025
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco turn love into music with joint album debut
After months of anticipation, Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have released their first collaborative album, _I Said I Love You First_. Blending personal reflections with emotional storytelling, the 15-track project marks both a musical partnership and a creative milestone for the newly engaged couple.
Launched under SMG Music, Friends Keep Secrets, and Interscope Records, the album offers fans a look into the pair’s evolving relationship and artistic synergy. It’s a deeply personal record shaped by comfort, connection, and shared experience in the studio.
Launched under SMG Music, Friends Keep Secrets, and Interscope Records, the album offers fans a look into the pair’s evolving relationship and artistic synergy. It’s a deeply personal record shaped by comfort, connection, and shared experience in the studio.
She has such an amazing way of putting you in an immediate zone. It's cool because one of our first songs, probably like 11 years ago, was 'Same Old Love'
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco Kiss
It just felt like it was a little taste of what we are and how we made this together, and how much we loved it and how much we love each other. And it just felt like it was meant to be.
An intimate musical collaboration
The album, described as an organic creation, reflects the duo’s romantic and creative bond. Gomez and Blanco, who announced their engagement in late 2024, crafted a sound that merges their styles and stories. Each track captures different emotional layers, from vulnerability to nostalgia.
Three singles were released ahead of the album — _Scared of Loving You (co-written with Finneas), Call Me When You Break Up (featuring Gracie Abrams), and Sunset Blvd.. Track eight, Bluest Flame_, features a songwriting contribution from Charli XCX. Blanco highlighted this reunion with Charli, noting their earlier work on Same Old Love over a decade ago.
Three singles were released ahead of the album — _Scared of Loving You (co-written with Finneas), Call Me When You Break Up (featuring Gracie Abrams), and Sunset Blvd.. Track eight, Bluest Flame_, features a songwriting contribution from Charli XCX. Blanco highlighted this reunion with Charli, noting their earlier work on Same Old Love over a decade ago.
Trivia
Benny Blanco is known for producing and writing hits for numerous artists. Which pop superstar did he collaborate with on the songs "Teenage Dream" and "California Gurls"
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Benny Blanco
Benjamin Joseph Levin , known professionally as Benny Blanco , is an American record producer, songwriter, record executive, and author.
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Music video highlights Gomez's past
Coinciding with the album’s release, Gomez and Blanco dropped the video for Younger and Hotter Than Me, a visual homage to Gomez’s early years as a child star. Set on an abandoned soundstage, it portrays feelings of loneliness, identity, and fading fame.
Blanco described the song as capturing the emotional void stars face when attention fades. Gomez added that the lyrics mirror her own discomfort in social settings and a lifelong sense of not fitting in.
_I Said I Love You First_ is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Blanco described the song as capturing the emotional void stars face when attention fades. Gomez added that the lyrics mirror her own discomfort in social settings and a lifelong sense of not fitting in.
_I Said I Love You First_ is now streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon Music.
Listen to the new album “I Said I Love You First”, out now: https://sgxbb.lnk.to/ISaidILoveYouFirst Shop new merch: ...
She has such an amazing way of putting you in an immediate zone. It's cool because one of our first songs [Gomez and himself], probably like 11 years ago or 10 years ago, was 'Same Old Love'
Selena Gomez and benny blanco talk about blanco trying to keep his proposal a secret and collaborating on their first album ...