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The existence of Gomez’s title track, “Rare,” was first confirmed on August 16, 2018, when she went on an Instagram live to share that her “favorite song [off her new album is the title track].”
The song is a self-empowerment anthem about independence and self-love.
A demo now speculated to be sun...
[Verse 1]
Baby
You've been so distant from me lately
And lately
Don’t even wanna call you "baby"
[Pre-Chorus]
Saw us gettin' older (Older)
Burnin' toast in the toaster
My ambitions were too high
Waiting up for you upstairs (Upstairs)
Why you act like I’m not there?
Baby, right now it feels like
[Chorus]
It feels like you don't care
Why don't you recognize I'm so rare?
Always there
You don't do the same for me, that's not fair
I don't have it all
I'm not claiming to
But I know that I’m special (So special), yeah
And I’ll bet there's somebody else out there
To tell me I’m rare
To make me feel rare
[Verse 2]
Baby
Don't make me count up all the reasons to stay with you
No reason
Why you and I are not succeeding, ah-ah (Mmm, ah, ah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Saw us gettin' older (Oh)
Burnin' toast in the toaster (Ah-ha)
My ambitions were too high (Too high)
Waiting up for you upstairs (Upstairs)
Why you act like I’m not there? (Ah-ha)
Baby, right now it feels like (What?)
[Chorus]
It feels like you don't care
Why don't you recognize I'm so rare? (I'm so rare)
Always there
You don't do the same for me, that's not fair
I don't have it all
I'm not claiming to
But I know that I'm special (So special), yeah
And I'll bet there's somebody else out there
To tell me I'm rare
To make me feel rare (Yeah, yeah)
[Bridge]
I'm not gonna beg for you
I'm not gonna let you make me cry (Ah, nah nah, make me cry)
Not getting enough from you (No-oh)
Didn't you know I'm hard to find? (Find, hard to find)
[Pre-Chorus]
Saw us gettin' older
Burnin' toast in the toaster
My ambitions were too high (Too high)
Waiting up for you upstairs
Why you act like I'm not there?
Baby, right now it feels like
[Chorus]
It feels like you don't care (You don't care)
Why don't you recognize I'm so rare? (So rare)
I'm always there
You don't do the same for me, that's (That's) not (Not) fair
I don't have it all (I don't have it all)
I'm not claiming to (I'm not claiming to)
But I know that I'm special (So special), yeah
And I'll bet there's somebody else out there
To tell me I'm rare
To make me feel rare (Ooh yeah)
[Outro]
Ah, ah (So rare)
Rare
Ah, ah
Rare
Rare was written by Selena Gomez & Madison Love & Leland & Sir Nolan & Simon Says.
Rare was produced by Simon Says & Sir Nolan.
Selena Gomez released Rare on Fri Jan 10 2020.
During an interview with Apple Music, Selena said this about the title track:
[Rare] actually is a word that sums up what the purpose of my position is, which is letting people know that they are completely unique within who they are. That’s the biggest thing, right? It’s like, they don’t fit in, o...
During the week ending January 25, 2020, “Rare” debuted and peaked at #30 on the Hot 100.
So Nolan, he and I have had a relationship since, like I started working on ‘Revival’ and he had this idea and he presented it to me, and I thought it was so beautiful. He’s like, “This is your message.” Because I think anyone who knows me knows that I have such a heart for people and all I want to...
It was definitely broken down when we first had Rare, when I heard it, and so then after that we tried different production. We tried different vocals. I probably recorded it four different times, adding adlibs, adding things here and there. Then finally we got to a place that it sounded perfect, bu...
What’s funny is the older I get, the less I read and it makes me kind of bummed, because I do want to have communication with my fans. I used to be extremely personal one on one, but I find that lately it’s just become really heavy. When I knew I was going to release this album, the words were going...
Rare Beauty is something that I actually wanted to create a lifestyle out of. The idea of doing cosmetics, at first I was like, oh, I don’t know if I could do this, but I knew I wanted to be something that wasn’t everything else, and I wanted it to feel encouraging. I wanted it to feel approachable...