On Rare, SelenaGomez finally lands on her own signature style.
It took two albums and nearly half a decade for Selena Gomez to hone in on a sound that really works for her. On 2015's Revival, she discovered that her strength is in her delivery — not by belting, or wailing, but by syncopating her words, punctuating every note with a sort of whimsical attitude best exemplified on tracks like"Hands to Myself," and later,"Bad Liar." What became equally as important as her enunciation was the space in between what she was saying.
With Rare, Gomez's moment to more intimately reflect on everything that has happened to her in that time, we don't get much closer to learning who she is, despite the title track pivoting on that premise. What we do get is a relatively straightforward and at-times brilliant, finely-tuned pop album loosely about trying to get over someone, and all of the requisite steps shuffled about: the cutting off, the dancing again, and the comeback .
There are several moments that stack up to"Bad Liar"-heights on Rare, particularly on the lush and blossoming title track, which sounds almost like the more maximalist underside of that coin. Gomez excels here, prowling lines about"burning toast in the toaster" over an animated melange of bongos and pedal steel.
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