Selena Marie Gomez (born July 22, 1992) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and television producer. After appearing on the children's series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), she received wider recognition for her portrayal of Alex Russo on the Emmy Award-winning Disney Channel television series Wizards of Waverly Place, which aired from 2007 until 2012.
Gomez also starred in the films Another Cinderella Story (2008), Princess Protection Program (2009), Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (2009), Ramona and Beezus (2010), and Monte Carlo (2011). Thereafter, she focused on more mature roles in Spring Breakers (2012), Getaway (2013), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), and The Dead Don't Die (2019). She voices the character of Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise, and serves as an executive producer of the Netflix television drama series 13 Reasons Why (2017–present) and the Netflix documentary series Living Undocumented (2019).
Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Selena Gomez Praises Best Friend Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Album: ‘She Is’ a ‘Mastermind’
usmagazine.comLong live Taylena! Selena Gomez is just like Us — listening to Taylor Swift’s Midnights the moment it dropped.“That she is,” the Only Murders in the Building star, 30, captioned a Friday, October 21, screenshot of her Apple Music account, in which “Mastermind” was playing.Swift, 32, released her 10th studio album — chock full of cryptic Easter eggs — at midnight on Friday to much fan excitement.“Midnights is a wild ride of an album, and I couldn’t be happier that my co-pilot on this adventure was @jackantonoff.
He’s my friend for life (presumptuous I know but I stand by it) and we’ve been making music together for nearly a decade HOWEVER… this is our first album we’ve done with just the two of us as main collaborators,” the “Christmas Tree Farm” songstress captioned an Instagram post at the time. “We’d been toying with ideas and had written a few things we loved, but Midnights actually really coalesced and flowed out of us when our partners [Joe Alwyn and Margaret Qualley, respectively] did a film together in Panama.
Jack and I found ourselves back in New York, alone, recording every night, staying up late and exploring old memories and midnights past.”She added: “Midnights is a collage of intensity, highs and lows and ebbs and flows.
Life can be dark, starry, cloudy, terrifying, electrifying, hot, cold, romantic or lonely. Just like Midnights.”Midnights features 13 powerful songs, including “Mastermind.” Swift also released a “3 a.m.” bonus version with seven additional “from the vault” tracks.
Read more on usmagazine.com
