Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco have released their joint album, ‘I Said I Love You First’.
The smitten couple – who have been together for almost two years and got engaged in December 2024 – give fans an insight into their adorable love story on the deeply personal, romantic collection and Selena has thanked her partner for “pouring [his] unconditional love” into the project.
Upon releasing the record, Selena shared to Instagram: “Benny, thank you for being my own personal journal throughout this process. These songs represent our past, present and future… something I can’t wait to experience with you from now until forever. Thank you for pouring your unconditional love into creating this project with me.”
Thanking the mammoth list of collaborators and contributors, including Charli xcx, who co-wrote the song ‘Bluest Flame’, Finneas and Gracie Abrams, she added: “To every collaborator on the album: @gracieabrams, @themarias, @finneas, @charlixcx and so many more, thank you for helping me communicate my deepest, truest self into art. I am forever grateful for your trust in creating something so special together.”
Thanking her fans, she concluded: “And finally, thank you to my amazing fans who have grown up with me and cheered me on through every chapter of this story. I hope you love these songs like I do and they help you along your own journey. Thank you for being a part of mine, it truly means the world to me.”
Producer Benny, 37, recently told how he kept constant notes on their conversations for songwriting material, rather than them having a formal discussion on what to write about.
Speaking on Spotify’s ‘Countdown To I Said I Love You First: Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco In Conversation’, the ‘Only Murders in the Building’ star, 32, noted they would chat in the mornings but never had a conversation about the record.
She added: “It was very, ‘this is on my mind,’ ‘what is that,’ ‘how does that make you feel?’ kind of thing.”
Benny admitted: “Yeah, I felt like your personal journal.
“I was just, constantly writing whatever you said, wherever we were.
“Sometimes you’d be saying something, like, really important, and I would — I didn’t know if you even realised — but I would open my phone and be like, ‘F***, that’s such a good line for a song.'”
‘I Said I Love You First’ tracklisting:
1. I Said I Love You First
2. Younger And Hotter Than Me
3. Call Me When You Break Up (Selena’s Edition)
4. Ojos Tristes
5. Don’t Wanna Cry
6. Sunset Blvd
7. Cowboy
8. Bluest Flame
9. How Does It Feel To Be Forgotten
10. Do You Wanna Be Perfect
11. You Said You Were Sorry
12. I Can’t Get Enough
13. Don’t Take It Personally
14. Scared Of Loving You