You're listening to Song Exploder,
where musicians take apart their songs and piece by piece tell the story of how they were made.
I'm Rishikesh Hirway.
Selena Gomez is a singer, songwriter, and actress who spent most of her life in the public eye.
She started her acting career as a child and put out her first albums as a teenager.
She's had three number one albums, eight top ten hits,
and in 2017, Billboard named her Woman of the Year.
At one point, she was the most followed person on Instagram,
and the details of her life are constantly discussed in tabloid headlines.
So when your private life is that public,
how do you write a song about something as personal as heartbreak?
Do I think my story intrigues people in a different way?
Obviously it does.
It's unfortunately how it works.
But this song alone represents what a lot of people who are heartbroken have gone through.
For the song Lose You to Love Me,
Selena teamed up with the Grammy-winning production duo Mattman and Robin,
whom she'd worked with before.
And she turned to her longtime songwriting collaborators, Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter.
Julia Michaels is a Grammy-nominated artist in her own right,