On growing up in the spotlight
“Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah,” Selena shared. “And I’m going to continue to, but I guess it is a bit different when you have gone through the motions of the teenage years to 20s and to early 30s. By all means. I have nothing figured out. I just hope that I’ve just become a little bit more mature in a lot of areas.”
On how she met Benny
“We met when I was 16 because we were going to possibly work together but I didn’t start releasing music until 17/18 officially and so we saw each other around,” Selena recalled. “It was nice and then I don’t know. I feel like he was an acquaintance, if that makes sense. To be honest I wasn’t besties. I just thought he was nice and then we did a few songs together, ‘Same Old Love,’ which was awesome and we had a great time, nothing really there. And then ‘I Can’t Get Enough,’ which was with Tainy and J Balvin, didn’t get it there either.”
“I just thought he was funny. This guy’s so funny but I didn’t think anything of it,” she continued. “Also, I was so not, you know when you realize you’re not in that place anymore you need to be where you are, it’s all about timing to meet that person even if I did think oh I need to take this a step forward then it wouldn’t have worked. Simply you just have to be there mentally in order to move forward with something healthy.”
She went on, “Then we reunited for ‘Single Soon’…it wasn’t our favorite…just because I can say this cause I’m marrying him. Just really wasn’t what I thought I wanted so he came in and he agrees on a lot of levels but he just came in and I was like oh ‘Hi Benny’ and we spoke for two hours and I asked him to hook me up with anybody that he knew that was cute and he was like ‘Oh we do these things, these dinner nights. You should come’ and next thing you know we’re dating but, he was terrified in the beginning cause he was like it was work and it’s combining and people are going to get mad and I’m like, ‘don’t give a s–t kiss me.’”
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