YMMV / Selena Gomez

• Critical Dissonance: Her three albums with the Scene and Stars Dance received middling reviews from critics but still sold extremely well, with all of the former going Gold.
• Even Better Sequel: Rare gets higher marks than Revival, with some critics declaring it her best album.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • Her fans and Miley Cyrus's fans don't really get along, though both artists are good friends.
  • Since their final break-up, her fanbase and Justin Bieber's fanbase have been feuding. Even when they were together though, it wasn't uncommon for Selena's fanbase to be hostile to Bieber's due to his massive Hate Dom and Hype Backlash, while she was herself targeted by his fanbase for Yoko Oh No reasons.
• Les Yay: The music video for "Bad Liar" ends with the teen giving a Longing Look at a photo of her (female) gym teacher. Interestingly, both are played by Selena Gomez.
• Spiritual Successor: To Hilary Duff, playing her counterpart in a movie, following her path musically and having a similar approach to managing the press and her private life.
  • She can also be considered one to Jennifer Lopez.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel:
  • Revival is this for a majority of critics, compared to her previous album as a solo artist. This was the first album with Selena had a significant role in it's production and writing, so much so that she considers this as her first solo album and Stars Dance is filed under Canon Discontinuity.
  • For her time with The Scene, "Naturally" is the only single that receive any favorable reaction from critics.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Good for You"; everything from the production to her singing is just so beautiful and flows so fluidly together, although A$AP Rocky's verse might have killed the flow a bit. This is probably why there's a version without him in it.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • In "Hit The Lights", a song on When The Sun Goes Down, she swears. Twice. (Although it was just "damn".)
  • The lyrics of "Birthday" are highly questionable, and there are various moans peppered throughout the song.
  • In "Like a Champion" she actually says "sexy".
  • The last few seconds of the "Round And Round" video show one of the spies following Selena around holding on to a metal railing for dear life. His hand slips, the spy apparently falling to his offscreen death as Selena blows out a match.
  • The songs "Same Old Love" and "Camouflage" use the word "shit" in the chorus.

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