{"id":64513,"date":"2025-03-21T22:18:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-22T02:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=64513"},"modified":"2025-03-31T22:19:55","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T02:19:55","slug":"benny-blanco-is-proving-to-be-a-good-listener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/benny-blanco-is-proving-to-be-a-good-listener\/64513\/","title":{"rendered":"Benny Blanco is proving to be a good listener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez are set to drop their highly anticipated album <em>I Said I Love You First<\/em>, and ahead of its release, they shared some insights into their creative process during a conversation on Spotify. In a teaser clip, the engaged couple revealed how they collaborated on the album, discussing the chaos and the inspiration behind the lyrics and tunes.<\/p>\n<p>Blanco, dressed casually in a white shirt and printed bottoms, asked Gomez about how she found the lyrics and melodies for the album. The <em>Only Murders in the Building<\/em> star explained that their creative process was very organic, with conversations flowing naturally as they discussed what was on their minds. She described it as a back-and-forth dynamic, with questions like, \u201cWhat is that?\u201d and \u201cHow does that make you feel?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Blanco jokingly compared his role in the process to being Gomez\u2019s personal journal. \u201cYeah, I felt like your personal journal,\u201d he said, to which Gomez playfully responded, \u201cWell, you are!\u201d He then shared how he would often jot down notes when Gomez said something that resonated with him, saying, \u201cSometimes you\u2019d be saying something, like, really important, and I would\u2014I didn\u2019t know if you even realized\u2014but I would open my phone and be like, \u2018F\u2014, that\u2019s such a good line for a song.'\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>I Said I Love You First<\/em> marks the couple\u2019s first album together since they got engaged in December, and fans can look forward to hearing the full collection when it drops on March 21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benny Blanco and Selena Gomez are set to drop their highly anticipated album I Said I Love You First, and\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":64514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[4736],"class_list":["post-64513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-benny-blanco"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64513\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}