Selena Gomez Does ?Billboard? Magazine

Selena Gomez Does ?Billboard? Magazine

"It's obviously an important phase in my career, and personally"

Selena Gomez ? singer, actress and Justin Bieber girlfriend ? is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Billboard magazine. The coverstory feature focuses on Selena?s new album and new film, both due out this Summer, as well as her reign as current Disney starlet. In the wake of Miley Cyrus?s rejection of the ?good girl? image, Disney hopes they can pin their hopes on Selena as the new Disney doll. Can she handle it?

?It?s a transitional stage,? Selena Gomez says. ?I?m figuring out what I have to do.? Gomez has been thrown a curveball. During the first week of June, there was a significant shake-up within the Disney Music Group. Two of the executives who helmed her musical career will be stepping away from her professional life in the months following the release of the most important album of her young career ? ?Selena is one of our top priorities,? Cavallo wrote in an email. ?She made a fantastic album, with great depth and several hit singles. Everything is moving ahead as planned.? Those plans include the release of the album, which features such songwriters as Toby Gad, Katy Perry and Antonina Armato, as well as a 29-city North American tour booked by Creative Artists Agency. There?s also the promotional run-up for the film ?Monte Carlo? with Fox 2000 ? ?She sees the world as her audience, an audience that goes 12 to 35 or 45,? Konowitch said in a May interview, two weeks before he announced he?d be leaving the company. ?But she?s conscious of where she came from, and of not wanting to abandon them? ? This summer, Gomez is attempting a new path for Disney Channel stars: severing her connections with a hit show, making a film for a rival studio and releasing her third album without the benefit of the Disney TV empire to promote it in conjunction with a series or special. Once the fourth and final season of ?Waverly Place? wrapped in May, Gomez was promoting her new album, which Disney-owned Hollywood Records will release June 28, and the film ?Monte Carlo,? which also stars Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy, that opens July 1 ? ?It?s obviously an important phase in my career, and personally,? Gomez says. ?The good news is I have been juggling acting and singing for two-and-a-half to three years. But I have to start over in some areas. It?s interesting to start taking risks, to grow up through my music.?

The full Billboard feature can be read HERE or in the print issue of the magazine which hits newsstands on Monday. I really love Billboard features like this because they aren?t all fluff ? they really inform on what goes on behind the scenes in the music biz. I can?t say I?m a big Selena Gomez fan ? yet ? but I?m liking what I?m hearing thus far. Her new album, When the Sun Goes Down, drops at the end of this month and it features songs written by Britney Spears! Hello, how could I NOT be interested in an album like that. I guess we?ll have to wait and see how the next phase of Selena?s career turns out. At the very least, she can enjoy the fact that she is the object of envy, scorn and death threats now that she is Justin Bieber?s girlfriend. Hello, the girl has already made it.

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