Selena Gomez and Gracie Abrams find out just how hard it is to kick their bad habits on their new collaborative single “Call Me When You Break Up.” An ode to everyone finding themselves unable to walk away from years-long situationships, the record appears on Gomez’s forthcoming collaborative album with Benny Blanco, I Said I Love You First, set for release on March 21. Let Gomez and Blanco’s engagement be proof that it does get better and that person only hitting you up when their actual relationship goes south is not, in fact, good for you.
“Call Me When You Break Up” opens with a voicemail tone, but not in the traditional sense of R&B stars singing over lovelorn recordings from their answering machine. Gomez and Abrams are the ones leaving a message at the beep — and it’s an unhinged one. “Call me when you break up/Unless you’ve found the person that you want a new name from/I’d to be there when the day comes/You know I’m always here, so don’t ever be a stranger,” Gomez sings.
“Call me when you break up/I’m battling the lack of us, I look for medication/Tried every obvious replacement/In bars and strangers’ beds until my faith was in the basement,” Gracie admits on her verse. “Won’t you call me when you break up?/I feel so out of luck I’m skipping cracks along the pavement/I’ve gone emotionally bankrupt/We’re so meant for each other, I mean, God, when will you wake up?”
While they wait for their calls to be returned, Gomez and Blanco are continuing to gear up for the release of I Said I Love You First. “I definitely didn’t feel any sort of pressure. I was maybe just nervous with jitters in the beginning, and then slowly but surely it was happening and it sort of fell into place with a lot of hard work and love,” Gomez told Interview.
Blanco added: “We also just made it in this house. We weren’t going to a studio every day. I’d be like, ‘Hey, I have this cool chord thing.’ Then she’d come in. We weren’t like, ‘Today’s the studio. We’re going to write this song and that.’ So many times it was so hodgepodge. It was like two hours here, two hours there. I’d never worked that way with someone. Usually I work that way if I’m by myself, but it was so cool to be able to do that with her.”
From Rolling Stone US
