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Revival is the second studio album by American singer Selena Gomez. It was released on October 9, 2015, by Interscope Records, her first album released through that label. Preparation for the album began in 2014, when Gomez left her previous label Hollywood Records. The record was influenced by a range of artists, particularly Christina Aguilera and her album Stripped (2002). Gomez co-wrote twelve of its sixteen tracks. The album reflects her journey since 2013, including the media scrutiny surrounding her personal life. As executive producers, Gomez, Danny D and Tim Blacksmith collaborated with Hit-Boy, Rock Mafia, and Stargate to achieve Gomez's new desired sound. Revival is primarily a dance-pop and electropop record, connected by a tropical beach sound, with lyrical themes revolving around love and confidence.
Upon its release, Revival received positive reviews from music critics, many of whom praised its production, lyrical content, and sultry sound. The album was included in several year-end best music lists by publications. Revival debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, marking Gomez's second consecutive number-one album in the United States, following Stars Dance (2013). Elsewhere, the album also charted within the top ten of twenty territories, including Canada, Brazil, France, Mexico and Australia. It was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), denoting one million album-equivalent units (including albums sales, streaming and track-equivalent units) sold in the United States.
With its singles "Good for You" (featuring rapper ASAP Rocky) and "Same Old Love" both reaching number five and "Hands to Myself" charting at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, Revival is further distinguished as Gomez's first record to house multiple top ten singles in the United States; all of which became her first three number-one singles on the Mainstream Top 40 chart.
To promote the album, Gomez performed the songs in several televised appearances, including The Today Show, the 2015 American Music Awards and the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. Furthermore, Gomez embarked on a concert tour, titled Revival Tour in May 2016, which visited North America, Asia and Oceania, before it was canceled in August 2016 following Gomez facing health issues stemming from her lupus diagnosis.
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Selena Gomez is one of the former Disney child stars who strenuously distancing herself from the childlike image as a musician. It's getting a trite exercise.
Yet it still seems that the world allow themselves to be dazzled again and again when popmaskineriet sets out children of the stars calculated metamorphosis.
The once innocent children the stars no longer plays on lurve, but on sex. "Where did the child go?" Wailed public guardian, who forget both that people age and that sex sells.
But the worst is that artists themselves believe that their rite of passage from childhood to babe adds music an extra dimension!
On the "Revival", Selena Gomez 'biological clock has been disabled until the "wise beyond her years." For the album, whose songs are largely co-written by Gomez, sounds like something signed a lived life - not an inexperienced 23-year-old. Just the fact that she feels that "revival" is appropriate terminology for her second solo album telling story.
You've heard it before: A formula rice soup of R&B, EDM and pop. Variations on conflict "I am really tired of those stupid boyfriends, but I can not really function without them?".
This is supposedly generality, unfortunately, and as such resonates well tunes in people that anchors their identity as belonging to anyone.
This is something Gomez apparently is concerned about. On the A$AP Rocky cooperation "Good For You", she sings "I just wanna look good for you, good for you, uh-huh / Let me show you how proud I am to be yours." Nothing is more unsexy than to make itself into a subservient subject.
On the piano ballad "Camouflage" there unfolds how Gomez apparently can not live without her boyfriend she broke up with.
The Kygo-inspired "Survivors" is an ode to a girlfriend who patched her together. Yawn...
Just "Me & My Girls" makes an attempt to channel independence.
There is a picture of Selena Gomez that rolls on a big garbage can, and over it has a "funnyguy" written "Gomez taking her music dor a walk." Cruel, yes. But precisely.
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