‘Stars Dance’ is Selena Gomez’s first official solo CD. Gossips recently reported that Justin Bieber banned the playing of all songs by on-again/off-again girlfriend Selena Gomez in his presence. If true, that edict will soon be hard to enforce.
Gomez’s new album has hit written all over it, not because its particularly great, but because it’s uncommonly craven.
“Stars Dance” — which has already ushered in Gomez’s first Top 10 single (“Come & Get It”) — offers a virtual master course in how to nick the styles of as many other pop stars as possible, all while skirting the laws of copyright infringement.
Gomez also drums up interest by making several Bieber allusions. In “Forget Forever,” she talks of a love meant to “rule the world” that all went wrong. And before the only song that approaches a ballad, “Love Will Remember,” she includes a voicemail from a former flame some say sounds a lot like — guess who? Back stories like this will help. But gossip isn’t Gomez’s best weapon. Mimicry is.
