Selena Gomez Teases ‘Empowering’ New Music at Selection’s Hitmakers

Dua Lipa, Selena Gomez, Jack Harlow and extra of music’s brightest stars celebrated the 12 months’s greatest songs and the trade’s high execs, artists and creatives at Selection‘s Hitmakers brunch, held at Metropolis Market Social Home in Downtown Los Angeles.

Gomez, who was honored with the Hitmakers Movie Music of the Yr award for “My Thoughts & Me,” used her acceptance speech to thank her followers for “letting me on my own” in her new Apple TV+ documentary of the identical identify.

Chatting with Selection‘s Marc Malkin on the crimson carpet, Gomez additionally teased new music on the best way, which she described as “highly effective, empowering” and “actually joyful.”

“I’m so joyful, and also you’re going to be so joyful once you hear the music, I promise,” Gomez stated. “I need everybody to really feel good once they hear the brand new report.”

Gomez additionally stated she would like to collaborate with fellow Hitmakers honoree Lipa. Gomez praised Lipa’s potential to carry dance music again in such a giant means, calling her “such a breath of contemporary air.”

“I simply suppose she’s highly effective,” Gomez stated. “I believe she’s stunning.”

Lipa shared comparable reward for Gomez and stated she would “completely” like to do a “Selipa” collaboration.

Opening the occasion, Shirley Halperin, government editor of music, stated that after Selection spoke with over 150 Hitmakers and Hitbreakers, the primary takeaway is that the trade is “sleeping on” R&B.

“You stated probably the most urgent situation dealing with the music enterprise at present is oversaturation and overabundance of songs,” Halperin stated to an viewers of trade leaders. “An in depth second, third and fourth was the slowdown in new stars and artist growth, issues over streaming splits and problems with illustration.”

Ending her speech accepting the Supervisor of the Yr Award, Ebonie Ward, who represents Gunna, Future and Flo Milli, stated, “Free Gunna, free YSL, free Younger Thug and shield Black artwork.”

In a while within the ceremony, Rita Wilson, presenting Kara DioGuardi with the A&R Award, energized the gang with a rendition of Naughty by Nature’s “Hip Hop Hooray.”

A giant theme of the ceremony was TikTok’s influence on this 12 months’s greatest data, together with GAYLE’s “Abcdefu” and Omar Apollo’s “Evergreen (You Didn’t Deserve Me at All).”

Put just by Apollo himself, “I wish to thank TikTok… altering my life and shit. It’s dope!”