In 2013, she starred in Harmony Korine’s “Spring Breakers,” a neon Florida fever dream of guns, sex and binge drinking, but she played Faith, the corrupted church girl with cherub cheeks and quivering lips, who runs away before things get truly deranged. When I walk into a place and people look at me, they don’t see an artist.”
Gomez recalled thinking: “I need my work to just outshine all of this because the noise is driving me crazy, and it’s preventing me from leaving my home. Years of paparazzi attention and interest in her barely pubescent love life contributed to the guarded uneasiness just under her shimmery surface. (“Had major anxiety at the airport,” she tweeted recently to more than 32 million followers. She said she is prone to overthinking, endures episodes of “angst” and is extra-sensitive to uncomfortable situations. Gomez can also be a ball of nerves, making her perhaps the most earthbound of her generation’s Disney graduates (Miley Cyrus, Demi Lovato). Reshifting the Power: The new 10-minute version of a bitter breakup song from 2012 can be seen as a woman’s attempt to fix an unbalanced relationship by weaponizing memories.Fearless: For the release of “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” the first of the rerecordings, Times critics and reporters dissected its sound and purpose.Swift released two new albums, “ Folklore” and “ Evermore.” In debuting a new sound, she turned to indie music.