As mentioned, there are numerous people who dislike her singing for various reasons. On top of that, some critics have rated her vocals as the worst of this or any other generation. You should also take a look at how voice teachers on Youtube react to her singing. The rule applies especially if the singer performs with a backing track. After all, she never trained singing, and singing is not her primary profession. The American Music Awards featured some spectacular and wowing performances this year.
Shawn Mendez and Camila Cabello stole fans' hearts with their "Senorita" performance, Taylor Swift delivered her promised melody of songs from the last decade, and Halsey covered herself in paint for her "Graveyard" number.
But one artist that didn't seem to be at the top of their game was Selena Gomez , who offered a shaky performance to open the award ceremony.
It was uncharacteristic of the star, who's known to deliver knock-out performances in the past. But her showcase had some viewers questioning her talent.
Before you ask, don't worry, Selena Gomez can sing — but here's why she didn't perform her best. But taking the stage for the first time in two years — especially on live television and at an award show like the AMAs, Selena was understandably nervous. A source close to the fan revealed that just before the set, she suffered a panic attack — which attributed to her off-key performance.
She really wanted to deliver. She was named after Selena Quintanilla, whose music both her parents loved. Her mom let her splash around in the yard during rainstorms; her dad liked to watch Friday and Bad Boys with his cherubic baby girl. As a kid, Gomez was sensitive but fearless: A picture of her comforting another kid on the first day of pre-K made the local paper. She staged concerts in the living room and loved frilling herself up to compete in that particular Southern ritual—the beauty pageant.
She ably shielded Gomez from the ever-present financial difficulties. But I felt like we did because my mom was always doing a hundred million things just to make me happy, and we volunteered at soup kitchens on Thanksgiving; we went through my closet for Goodwill. Three years after she wrapped her run on the show, she secured the role of Alex Russo on the Disney Channel show Wizards of Waverly Place and moved to Los Angeles with her mom.
But Alexandra Margarita Russo still radiated the essential Disney-girl quality: a spunky, unselfconscious precocity and confidence. She was 15 when paparazzi began showing up on set.
Her onscreen brothers, David Henrie and Jake Austin, felt protective of her. That is a violating feeling. I ask Gomez whether she was aware of how invasive this situation was as it was happening, or if she brushed it off in the moment.
By dint of her personality, as well as the fact that she was a young woman in the spotlight, she had to be unconditionally grateful, composed, sparkling. Gomez is jet-lagged. She woke up at 4 a. The room is warm, and the afternoon is becoming opaque, and the superstar in front of me is giving off a soft, bruised quality. I find myself, as many fans and casual observers of Gomez have found themselves, wanting to protect her, to make her happy, to cheer her up.
Gomez is so invested in preserving a sense of normalcy that she swallows, in most moments, the strange side effects of having been on camera for two-thirds of her life.
The confidence came first; then came the confidence to let it drop. In between, though, there was a non-negligible amount of chaos. At 18, when she was still filming Wizards, Gomez entered a serious relationship with a teen heartthrob, an entanglement whose off-and-on ups-and-downs were dissected constantly and voraciously until it ended in In early , in the middle of an international tour for her first solo album, Stars Dance, Gomez checked herself into a rehab facility.
She was burned out and depressed, she tells me. Gomez had also been diagnosed with lupus, a chronic autoimmune disorder that, in her case, was severe enough to require chemotherapy and send her to the ICU for two weeks. Eventually she needed a kidney transplant, which caused one of her arteries to break; a six-hour emergency surgery followed. Gomez woke up with two significant scars —one on her abdomen and the other on her thigh, where the surgeon had removed a vein—and the jarring news that she had, for some time there, been fairly close to the edge.
But she also retreated to treatment centers for two more prolonged stays, in and She still has a hard time with late-night anxiety: the kind where you forget how to sleep and start thinking about what you want, what you have to do to get there.
She viewed her recent diagnosis of bipolar disorder as an important step to managing her life more soundly. Gomez maintains steadiness in part by avoiding social media.
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