New York Times Photoshoot and interview

New Selena’s interview and photoshoot for The New York Times.

LOS ANGELES — Selena Gomez wanted to control the music.

“Do you have an auxiliary cord?” the grown-up tween idol asked her driver on a recent Monday afternoon, queuing up a Spotify playlist (“It’s kind of all over the place”) and reaching into the front seat to crank the volume on a Christian rock song. One Direction, Nicki Minaj and the indie group Chromatics followed.

Ms. Gomez, like seemingly every other 23-year-old in the country, scrolled inattentively through Instagram and agreed to order sushi via an app as she rapped along to Drake under her breath (“Trigger fingers turn to Twitter fingers …”).
If she hadn’t recalled her stint, at the age of 7, on “Barney & Friends,” it was almost possible to forget Ms. Gomez’s child star bona fides: four seasons of a popular Disney show, “Wizards of Waverly Place”; four studio albums under the company’s music arm, Hollywood Records; and a soul-draining teen romance saga with Justin Bieber. But that’s all in her past now — sort of.

Full article at www.nytimes.com