“It’s time to butterfly” sings Selena Gomez, from her new album Revival, which came out October 9th, 2015. This album rings with confidence and advice on picking yourself back up, which are seen in the songs “Rise” and “Survivors”. For the first time, fans can really get the true Gomez, who became famous through the Disney Channel show “Wizards of Waverly Place”. After her acting career, she decided to become a solo artist, with her first solo album Stars Dance. However, the album Revival is more down to earth about the problems she has been facing in the past year, from relationships to health.
Gomez recently announced that in 2013 she was diagnosed with lupus, an autoimmune disease that causes the body’s immune system to produce antibodies within the body, which causes inflammation and tissue damage. “I could’ve had a stroke” she tells Billboard Magazine in an interview. This album is really about how she had to go through chemotherapy in order to cure the disease, and pick herself back up with no one, not even her fans, knowing. With paparazzi on her back about gaining weight during her chemotherapy, it hurt her self-confidence, but “what I’ve learned is so vital”, she sings in the song Revival.
Her relationship with Justin Bieber for three years ended in 2014, and left her in an emotion that no one knows. With this album, she opens up about how that relationship was with him, through the songs “Camouflage” and “Same Old Love”. She essentially has gotten back up after all the things going on in her life and made this remarkable album that easily any fan can relate to across the world.
