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Selena Gomez is using a new “secret friends” list on her Instagram Stories this week to exclusively share never-before-seen photos and videos with her millions of followers. Last night, her friend Taylor Swift was on her mind. She posted a video of herself lip-syncing to Swift’s song “Father Figure” on her Instagram Story.
“Does anyone else like lyricists who are so smart and intelligent? Or is it just me??” she captioned the clip. She wore a black robe with her husband Benny Blanco’s initials on it and flashed a glimpse of her marquise diamond engagement ring.
Gomez appeared on the Friends Keep Secrets podcast earlier this week and talked about being a Swiftie. “I’m a huge Taylor fan. I’ve definitely been a lifelong fan,” she began.
She told Blanco and co-hosts Lil Dicky and Kristin Batalko that she has known Swift for more than 17 years and has a different relationship with Swift’s music.
“One million percent (I relate to her music in a different way),” she added, “Well, ‘Dorothea’ is about me, it’s one of her songs. And I’m inspired by so many moments, big moments that define who I am, from relationships to family to love and hate. I feel like everything in between. We didn’t really know what was going on because I was 15 and she was 18. And we’d never met each other.” So when you hear that, you’re so struck by how eloquently expressed that is. ”
She then mentioned a second song, which Swift has yet to release, about their friendship. “So, there’s a song Taylor wrote about it called ‘Family,’ and it was briefly done 10 years ago, and he alludes to it in the lyrics without quoting it. It’s basically saying, you have great dreams, you want to be in movies. Like any crowd, I still see you,” Gomez recalled. “And her role was to still believe in my silly dreams, like playing in the stadium. And now when I listen to that song, it makes me want to cry about both of those things, but it happened to us. And it’s a really nice thing. Because at the time, she was just like, ‘We just wrote this song about us. It was just like our story,’ and I love that.”
