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Selena Gomez is again, and she's introduced with her one of the epic easy jams of the summer time, "Fetish." The new single and accompanying video is a novel departure from the pop glam Selena we knew, crammed with washed out vignettes, lipstick consuming, and different unusual, https://ffetish.video/ however lovely shots. The video was directed by Sel's longtime collaborator Petra Collins and so it solely seemed proper that the two would sit down to discuss the making of it for Dazed. Needless to say, we certainly learned a lot.

Not solely have been the visuals inspired by their mutual love of horror films (Sel mentioned one time Petra came over whereas she was watching Chucky), however Petra also mentioned ASMR movies and that she used them as inspirations to assist "contextualize" Selena's vision, which individuals appear to be misinterpreting.

"I really like the video as a result of it shows the very soiled, gross and weird love you can have towards someone," Petra said. "This is how obsessive some folks get and how they release. I’m obsessive about these weird ASMR movies. I think about how our bodies react to sounds and movement."

The two additionally elaborated on the importance of making something from the perspective of the female gaze. They said that the objective of the kitchen scene in the video was to show a lady "dropping control," which is one thing that Selena mentioned was also "so liberating."

"To lose control of my physique and lose sight of myself. I felt great," Selena stated. "I felt like tomatoes, eggs and dirt and it was amazing, however severely? I like that. It felt so good. I remember being a little bit nervous, and when shit hit the wall - I just misplaced it and left myself in that scene. It was so cool. [Petra was] behind the camera, screaming."

Petra herself added, "Women are all the time advised, ‘Oh, be accountable for your feelings,’ and a lady is never allowed to precise her anger with out being demonized as being PMS-y. I love seeing a woman, or a girl, be so physical, (to) let go of all management of her physique. It’s not going crazy, it’s going with it, it’s getting remaining!"

Selena went on to say that though she acknowledges she hasn't fairly carried out something like that on film earlier than, she's positively carried it over into her IRL life, for therapeutic purposes. "I can say right now, I do bizarre sh*t all the time when I’m alone in my house. It’s how I categorical myself! Honestly, what you do with girls is so inspiring to me," she mentioned. "Your footage will be sexy, but you aren’t sexualizing ladies. You capture the raw a part of it all."

They went on to debate setting the video in the suburbs for "essentially the most insane diploma" of isolation, their mutual love for Fiona Apple and the way they linked over Selena checking out Petra's Instagram and eager to be mates together with her (literally similar). It seems that the video was the product of two female masterminds, and reading them come collectively once again to discuss how it all went down is extra inspiring than ever.