Rare (Selena Gomez)

EN Do you know those albums that makes you anxious to see them being released? That's what happened to me and this album by Selena Gomez. It is a fact that the singer had been releasing some loose singles but was still not satisfied with the songs to the point of releasing an album.

The first two singles from the album, a kind of A-side and B-side, named “Lose You To Love Me” and “Look At Her Now”, were released. The idea was to show that the album would have a bit of everything, a more personal and raw side, and a more relaxed and fun side. I admit that the track "Lose You To Love Me” blew me away, as sincere and brutal as it was, being its lyrics linked to the singer's past relationship with the singer Justin Bieber. On the other hand, “Look At Her Now” turns out to be the “answer” to the other song, demonstrating that she won the battle and that she is now free and ready to move on with her life.

After the release of the singles, the artist was making brief appearances in American programs and awards, but did not move forward much more, which made the album released on January 10, 2020, without much impact. On the day of its release, the eponymous track was released as a single, accompanied by its video, and let's just say that the release of the album ended there. Probably the beginning of the Covid pandemic did not help much but the artist herself did not make any more references to the album until she decided to release a new deluxe version, on April 9, containing 3 more extra tracks, including the last single "Boyfriend", which already had a distinct sound from the rest of the project, and that ended up fading like the rest of the project.

I admit that I enjoyed the album and some of my favorite songs of the singer are in it, as is the case of the track "Back to You" (which was present in the series 13 Reasons Why), "Lose you to Love Me", "Vulnerable", "Dance Again" and "Souvenir". However, I think it ended up losing some personality and failed to reach the level of the artist's previous album, “Revival”, which was more cohesive and consistent. Some songs from the album give the feeling that they were added as a last-minute resort just to have a certain number of tracks and this ends up breaking the experience when listening to the album in its entirety and, on the other hand, if we add the bonus tracks all together, the album gets a total of 22 tracks, which ends up dispersing the listener.

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