Selena Gomez is currently working on the follow-up to her 2015 album Revival, and while that hasn’t been formally announced yet, here’s something concrete: She just shared a new song called “Back To You,” which is her contribution to the soundtrack for the upcoming second season of 13 Reasons Why, of which she’s an executive producer.
The song premiered on Zane Lowe’s Beats 1 Apple Radio show, and Gomez told him about the track, “I want it to be a beautiful message in a really complicated way but really fun. But I think that ‘Back To You’ is more of my special project that I wanted to give to Season 2.”
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Lowe also asked about what she’s been working on, and Gomez said she has some “personal things” she’s excited about:
“I definitely need to think more with my head and less with my heart, but I always do end up listening to my heart. So what I’ve been working on is a lot of like personal things and I’m stoked about it. Like, you know, opportunities to help people, which is great, but in general I’ve not stopped recording. I have visuals for what I picture the songs to be and I’m excited. I like being a little mundane when I’m not doing anything because then I get to just be myself for a second.”
Lowe tried to get some info about her next album out of her as well, but Gomez was mostly tight-lipped, although she did reveal that she was terrified of following up Revival “because for me it could be like it was a step down or I needed to beat that record, and I think every artist kind of struggles with that. So I waited. I wanted it to be great and had I not waited a good year or two I wouldn’t have had the best songs I’ve ever had.”
Watch the lyric video for “Back To You” above.
The 13 Reasons Why Season 2 soundtrack is out 5/18 via Interscope Records. Pre-order it here.
