Selena in the December issue of Vogue Magazine

Selena in the new December issue of Vogue Magazine.

“Selena Gomez preps for a breakthrough year—and displays a hard-won normalcy.

“There are so many ghosts in here,” Selena Gomez declares in the service elevator of Manhattan’s McKittrick Hotel. “This is insane.” Her evidence: An iPhone app called Ghost Hunter M2 (advertised as “the #1 Paranormal Investigation Toolkit”) is, at the moment, reading off the charts. We’re en route to Polo Ralph Lauren’s rooftop spring presentation, and between Fashion Week hoi polloi and a visit from Pope Francis, the city is mobbed. Gomez, however, is easygoing. “I think I have makeup all over my dress. Whatever; I’m a mess,” she says, preparing to meet Mr. Lauren. In fact, she’s about as much of a mess as Taylor Swift, whom Gomez refers to as “my sister.” And if 2015 was Taylor’s year, 2016 promises to see Gomez, 23, assume a similar position in the pop-star constellation.

This month, she will appear as herself in The Big Short, the Oscar-ambitious adaptation of Michael Lewis’s 2010 best seller. She has already released her second solo album, Revival, which will supply a string of singles to last through her world tour, beginning in May. (“I haven’t been this proud of something sinceSpring Breakers,” she says.) And Gomez does it all with the unabashed sweetness of a Disney princess rendered in the flesh: She calls Vera Wang “a hoot,” speaks with her mother every day, and rattles off the artists she’s listening to at the moment (DeJ Loaf, One Direction, and Rae Sremmurd) with aplomb. One might even describe Gomez’s rather thoughtful approach to her whirlwind life as . . . Swiftian.”

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