On Friday, Selena Gomez and fiancé Benny Blanco’s new album I Said I Love You First dropped and fans have already dissected the lyrics. Some think that one of the tracks, “Younger and Hotter Than Me,” includes a reference to Gomez’s bestie, Taylor Swift, and her famous song “All Too Well (10 Minute Version).”
The lyrics of the new track deal with issues around aging and seeing an ex with someone younger. She sings in the chorus, “We’re not gettin’ any younger/ But your girlfriends seem to.”
In Swift’s song, she sings, “And I was never good at tellin’ jokes, but the punch line goes/ ‘I’ll get older, but your lovers stay my age.’”
The lyrics do seem to mirror one another with similar sentiments about seeing someone the stars dated when they were younger continue to date young women as they age.
In a joint interview with Blanco on Spotify’s Countdown To…, Gomez shared that the album isn’t entirely inspired by their personal relationship, but with other connections and experiences as well.
“I would like to say most of this album has nothing to do with what everyone may go to,” she explained. “And I think it’s important for me to say that because I’ve evolved so much, and I have experienced life with new people. I’ve had to go through transitions with friends and lose people in my life and gain new people, and I’ve had a whole new life forever so it’s up for whatever people want but to me it was about both of our pasts and our history and also just inspired by friends and relationships, like some songs were actually meant [to be] about friendships in my life.”
Blanco added that sometimes “a song that you may have written in a moment about something [is] completely perceived as something else to everybody who has listened to it.”