Love on by Selena Gomez
In early December 2023, Selena Gomez revealed on Instagram that she had been quietly dating producer Benny Blanco for six months. This buoyant, flirtatious song finds the "Single Soon" hitmaker happy and loved up.Gomez invites listeners aboard with a bold chorus, declaring "I'm no mere cheap thrill" before urging her love interest to "jump on." The verses playfully discard formalities, opting for stolen moments and unexpected memoirs in places like "the back of a car" or "the last stall in the bathroom at The Bazaar."
The bubbly disco-pop anthem kicks off with a snippet of French dialogue sampled from the 2019 song "L'Amour" by Swedish producer LiQWYD. The conversation translates to one person playfully declaring their intention to christen the other with the endearing term "tender love," foreshadowing this song's unabashed embrace of desire.
The steamy lyrics were inspired by the couple of months that Selena Gomez spent living in Paris. "I had to work there and I loved just the quality of life and how romantic it felt," she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "And then to kind of feel really happy in my life and actually mean it is so."
Gomez wrote "Love On" with Julia Michaels, Michael Pollack, and the song's producers, Tejada and The Monsters & Strangerz.
Singer-songwriter Julia Michaels has co-penned several of Gomez's hits, including "Good For You," "Hands To Myself" and "Lose You to Love Me."
New York songwriter Michael Pollack and The Monsters & Strangerz production team have worked together on several previous occasions, including Maroon 5's "Memories," Miley Cyrus' "Prisoner" and Justin Bieber's "Anyone."
Report this ad The very French music video, directed by French director Greg Ohrel, shows Gomez lounging and dancing around a luxurious chateau as various couples make out.
"It's so liberating to not worry about how I look," Gomez told Billboard of filming the video, "and I just wanted it to feel like I was having a good time. I didn't need it to feel very intense or dramatic. It was just a blast, and I wanted it to convey that - I was genuinely that happy."
In the spring of 2023, while juggling filming a movie in Paris and studio sessions, Selena Gomez felt a surge of inspiration. Buoyed by both the energy of the City of Lights and a sense of contentment in her personal and professional life, she reached out to her frequent songwriting partner, Julia Michaels. Together, they crafted the lyrical foundation for "Love On," a song brimming with both lightness and playful flirtation.
Why are we conversing over this steak tartare
When we could be somewhere other than here
Makin' out in the back of a car
Or in the back of a bar?