As hard as Selena Gomez tries to talk about her new album, Revival, due to drop on October 29th, she can't seem to escape questions about her ex, Justin Bieber as well as her past with Disney. The media has been buzzing lately with news of Bieber's personal and musical re-invention but Gomez claimed that none of it surprises her in a recent interview with the New York Times.
"While people were writing that I was stupid for being in it, this is what I always saw in him," She told the newspaper, "I'm like, duh!" She also seemed to accept their past as tabloid fodder in the interview, saying that they "Made it their mission to make her seem meek and small," according to Billboard. She claimed to have used new album, Revival, as a way to fight back against the rumors as well as instigate her individual re-invention apart from Bieber.
When asked about her own career changes, Gomez said, "It's all part of my story. I'm growing and changing. I was in a relationship, and I was being managed by my parents, and I was still under Hollywood and I was being held to this expectation of being the good girl."
She further told the New York Times on Disney and her ex, "I knew deep down that this wasn't what I wanted to do - being exhausted of forcing something that wasn't right, even in my personal life. I had to have moments where I was crying and I was like, 'Why am I not in love with what I do?' I was forced to get very uncomfortable for a while in order to make the decisions I made."
It's safe to say that since removing her mother as her manager, the former tween starlet is all grown up on her new album. "Good For You," has reached number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and is Selena Gomez's highest reaching single on the charts to date.
