After a hiatus from the music scene, Selena Gomez has made a long-awaited comeback with the release of her single, ‘Lose You To Love Me’. Given the gap between releases, fans immediately started digging into the lyrics hoping for some sort of fresh tea and wouldn’t you believe it, their analysis concluded that the song is about her ex, Justin Bieber.
Fans are particularly fixated on these specific lyrics from the perfectly serviceable (and unexpectedly moody) tune:
I gave my all and they all know it / You turned me down and now it’s showing
In two months, you replaced us / Like it was easy
Made me think I deserved it / In the thick of healing, yeah
Are the lyrics about Justin Bieber? Other than Selena no one can really be certain. Still, it hasn’t stopped fans from pushing that narrative and they’ve even roped Hailey Bieber in on the bandwagon.
Not long after Selena released ‘Lose You To Love Me’, Hailey posted an screenshot of Summer Walker and Jhené Aiko’s ‘I’ll Kill You’ on her Instagram Stories, prompting fans to think it was a shade response of some kind on the behalf of Justin.
The focus then shifted back onto Selena after she shared a heartfelt message on Twitter about her father, causing fans to think it was a response to Hailey’s “response”.
So to recap so far: Selena Gomez released a song, fans immediately read into the lyrics like Sherlock Holmes, a “this is defs about Justin Bieber” narrative gets formed out of nowhere, and Hailey Bieber inevitably gets pulled into it.
If this sounds ridiculous, that’s because it is.
Hey internet, here’s an idea: stop overanalysing Selena Gomez’s song lyrics and social media like it’s a bloody high school advanced English exam.
Not everything she posts or sings about is about Justin Bieber, who she hasn’t dated for years and is (seemingly) happily married to Hailey. At this point, it’s just stirring up drama for the sake of it.
Even Hailey is calling out all those trying to push the “Hailey shares a shady response to Selena’s song about Justin” narrative after commenting on an Instagram post about the rumours: “Please stop with this nonsense… there is no ‘response’. This is complete BS.”
Selena hasn’t come out and said anything about what ‘Lose You To Love Me’ is about and nor do the lyrics explicitly name Justin in them. For all we know, the song could also be about her ex-boyfriend The Weeknd or another former flame whom we have no idea about.
So to those Selena Gomez/Justin Bieber stans out there, calm your jets. You’re not going to get a band 6 for your analysis of the lyrics to ‘Lose You To Love Me’ so just enjoy the song for what it is without stirring up unnecessary drama.