Talented pop singer and Disney star, Selena Gomez, began her journey on Barney & Friends with her close friend, Demi Lovato. As she progressed in her career, she starred in a few movies and Disney T.V. show, Wizards of Waverly Place, and released four studio albums. Through the years, many of her songs have become major hits.

Selena Gomez’s new album, Revival, was released on October 9, 2015. Within the first month of the release, two of her songs, “Good For You” and “Same Old Love,” have already made the top 20 on the Hot 100 Billboard Charts, and have become some of my personal favorites.

Selena Gomez has taken her first step outside of Disney. Revival is her first full length release not associated with Disney’s Hollywood Records. As she stepped away from Disney, she found her new, more mature sound – hence the album title and song, “Revival.”

I feel like I’ve awakened lately

The chains around me are finally breaking

I’ve been under self restoration

I’m becoming my own salvation

Showing up, no more hiding, hiding

The light inside me is bursting, shining

Refrain:

It’s my, my, time to butterfly

All of work, is so hard earned

More than just survival

This is my revival, this is a revival

This song has an R&B feel. Most of her songs have been love songs about relationships she had experienced, but “Revival” is about her love of music and personal calling.

Her sense of emotion towards this rebirth is portrayed through metaphoric lyrics about chains holding her down, and rather than her career just being a dream, it is for her “survival.”

She announced her feeling of awakening in an interview with the New York Times. She said, “…I was held to this expectation of being the good girl.”

The new maturity in her music is also shown on her album cover. She posed nearly naked with only her arms and legs covering her up, mimicking one of Jennifer Aniston’s old pictures.

Some other of the claimed pop artist’s songs are on the edge of R&B, such as “Revival,” “Perfect,” and “Good For You” featuring rap artist A$AP Rocky. Songs “Good For You” and “Same Old Love” have both reached the top 20 songs in the U.S.

The majority of the songs on Revival are catchy and fun to listen to. “Same Old Love,” Gomez’s new single, was unique to the other love songs she had written in the past. Even though there is a difference to the accustomed Selena Gomez sound, she has not lost her musical charm. The lyrics to “Same Old Love” were repetitive, but had an enjoyable beat. This is the kind of song that would easily get stuck in your head, but because there aren’t very many lyrics, it gets annoying fast.

One fatal flaw in “Same Old Love” is the music video to the single. The production does not clearly illustrate the song’s meaning. In the video, Selena Gomez starts out walking out of a hotel and starts lip syncing in a car, and, of course, it’s raining outside. Throughout the video, there are random shots of a depressed child staring at a fish tank and couples on the street. To top it all off, in the end she runs on stage and performs for the cheering crowd. She is picture-perfect gorgeous, but the style of the video is one we have seen too many times before.

Her Revival tour starts with the first performance on May 6, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada, and will be coming to Washington D.C. on July 4. Tickets have already gone on sale and she said, “Can’t wait to see each and everyone of you!!”