Gomez sounds most at home on the uptempo dance tracks like "Kill 'Em with Kindness" or "Me & the Rhythm," where the smoothness of her voice fits in with the vacant abandon of the beat. Instead, the album sticks pretty close to a club bangers-and-ballads mix with a couple of R&B-inspired jams thrown in. Taking more control over the album, with more writing credits and production oversight, the sound veers away from the bubblegum nature of her early work or the genre-hopping aspects of other releases. Revival is something of a fresh start for Gomez, both musically and personally. A label change (from Hollywood to Interscope), a very public breakup with longtime on-off boyfriend Justin Bieber, management issues, various rehab rumors, and even a few good things (a hit single, a charting collaboration with Zedd). Revival performed strongly on international record charts, becoming her fifth top-twenty entry in the United Kingdom, peaking at number eleven, and charting within the top-ten in eleven additional countries.ĭuring the short time since her last album, 2013's Stars Dance, and the release of Revival in 2015, Selena Gomez went through about a decade's worth of stuff. The record debuted at number one on the US Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 117,000 units, making it her second solo consecutive number-one album. Revival received generally positive reviews from critics, who appreciated its overall production and Gomez's vocals. The album also features a guest appearance from American rapper ASAP Rocky and collaborations with producers such as Rock Mafia, Hit-Boy and Stargate. Lyrically, the album discusses themes of love, heartbreak, and confidence. Gomez has cited artists such as Janet Jackson and Christina Aguilera as influences on the record, a pop and electronic dance music album with a tropical beach sound.
It is her first album released under her new recording contract with the labels, after completing her contractual obligations with previous label, Hollywood Records, with the compilation album For You and the single "The Heart Wants What It Wants", in 2014. It was released on October 9, 2015, by Interscope and Polydor Records as a follow-up to Stars Dance (2013). “Body Heat” brings Latin fusion into Gomez’s mix like never before and proves that she doesn’t need Zedd (the German producer behind her recent dance chart-topper “I Want You to Know”) to make a genuine club banger.Revival is the second solo studio album by American singer Selena Gomez.
Soaring past the harsh-though-catchy EDM beats of 2013’s Stars Dance and the shallow angst of her previous work with the pop-rock project the Scene, the former Disney star finds a new comfort zone in this album’s warm, tropical beach-pop sound. Her brand of sexiness has a coy, subtle quality that never tries too hard, from the fun, flirty “Hands to Myself” to the blissed-out “Survivors” to the intoxicating “Me & the Rhythm” - a riff on the classic theme of losing yourself on the dance floor (“Everybody wants to be touched/Everybody wants to get some”) that nonetheless finds her sounding completely in control of her own euphoria.
Where some former child stars tack toward aggressive maturity when they reach their twenties, Gomez finds ways to transcend that cliche. “It’s my time to butterfly,” she sings on the self-care anthem “Revival.” The Gomez of this relaxed, confident pop collection butterflies with such ease that it feels like she’s revealing her true personality for the first time. Selena Gomez wills a new era of her career into existence within the first two minutes of her second solo album.
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