When I was growing up, my father's side of the family spoke Spanish and I was fluent until like about 7 or 8 I started working around that time and over the years, I began to lose my grasp of the language. Was that a similar experience for you over the years? Your namesake Selena Quintanilla had to learn Spanish through her songs. When I saw the reactions, it really made me happy. I worked closely with my Spanish teacher because I wanted every pronunciation, every word to be perfect. My heritage means so much to me and I wanted it to be perfect. I was very nervous before "De Una Vez" was released. A big portion of my audience are Latinx, and I wanted to do this for them as a thank you. I can't even express to you how much it meant to me.
How do you feel to see your music connecting with the Latinx crowd? READ: Bad Bunny Wins Best Latin Pop Or Urban Album For 'YHLQMDLG'īoth "Baila Conmigo" and " De Una Vez" are top 5 hits on Billboard's Latin chart. He's immensely respected and it meant a lot to me to have him by my side for this. I felt honored to have Tainy produce Revelación for me.
Some of my favorites are, of course, Nicky Jam, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, Ozuna, Bad Bunny, and on and on. Yes, I am a huge reggaeton fan and I was so happy to be able to have the influences on this EP. You've sang in Spanish before, but this your first time taking on reggaeton music influences in your own music. Late last summer, I finally turned a corner and that is when the music truly started coming together. Tainy was amazing and very patient as I worked through my frustrations.
There were times I would just cancel and leave a session because I was so uninspired. It wasn't easy for me to adjust to recording sessions over Zoom. We started recording the EP right before COVID shut down everything. I met him a couple of years ago when we worked together on "I Can't Get Enough," so we had history together and I felt comfortable exploring this side of me with him. Tainy is a genius and has this subtle, stealth approach to producing, which suits me. What was the experience like to work with Tainy on Revelación? In an interview over email, Gomez talked with about making Revelación during the pandemic, embracing her Latinx heritage on the project and continuing to use her platform to inspire change, including during last year’s Black Lives Matter protests. Some of the music I worked on the last couple of years kind of naturally led to the timing feeling right." "I am thankful I waited though because it would have been a completely different project 10 years ago. "I have been talking about doing an all-Spanish project for the last 10 years and for one reason or another, it didn't come together," she told . Gomez references singing on " Taki Taki" as a catalyst for Revelación and said releasing the album this year felt right. 1 on the Billboard Top Latin Albums Chart, making it the first album by a woman to land at the top since 2017. The album has already been met with huge success- Revelación debuted at No. Gomez also enlisted some of the genre’s most promising names, Puerto Rican artists Rauw Alejandro and Myke Towers, as featured acts on “Baila Conmigo” and “Dámelo To',” respectively. To take on Latin music’s hottest genre of the moment on her own, Gomez called on one of its biggest producers, Puerto Rican GRAMMY-nominated hit-maker Marco "Tainy" Másis, to produce all but one of the 7-tracks on the EP.