Selena Gomez has poured her heart out in an emotional music video for her new single The Heart Wants What It Wants. In an interview with Ryan Seacrest on Thursday she confirmed that the song and video was all about Justin Bieber. Normally a fairly private person, Selena has certainly put her heart on her sleeve with this heartbreaking visual. Get the tissues out.
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In her interview with Ryan she explained a bit more about what she has been going through, “I think the biggest problem I had this year, even with [Justin], is identity… I was trying to figure out what I’m doing. It was the first time I was constantly being kicked down. I made some decisions that weren’t great. So did he. We went through that to only make us better.I think in a lot of ways,” she replied. “I’m just at peace now… I don’t know what the future holds – and that’s exactly what I say in the song.”
The title of the song is a line we are all familiar with. It originally comes from an 1862 Emily Dickinson letter (The Heart wants what it wants – or else it does not care) yet its reuse by Woody Allen is the most memorable. In a famous interview, back in 2001, when asked about his recently exposed scandalous relationship with girlfriend Mia Farrow’s daughter Soon-Yi, he told Time magazine, “The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet someone and you fall in love and that’s that.”
Justin Bieber has not officially responded to the video yet, but Selena said that he has seen it and had said it was “Beautiful”. Justin’s manager, Scooter Braun tweeted “@selenagomez brilliant!! #realpeople #realemotions”
The single comes from Selena’s album For You which is expected to be released November 24 via Hollywood Records.
