No bad blood here. After Selena Gomez commented “lol” underneath an Instagram roundup from Game 4 of the NBA Finals that had photos of various celebrities in attendance including Taylor Swift, the Rare Beauty founder clarified speculation she was shading her longtime pal.
“Woke up and was sent so many texts,” Gomez wrote on her Instagram Stories June 11. “I would never insult my friends, nor was it an insult. The comment was a reaction to the first slide on the page.”
Congrats to the peeps that represent. What a comeback. So funny how some are all the sudden fans though lol.”
As Gomez explained, it was all about the opposing team.
“Second I bet my friends on the game,” she shared. “The friends in the text chain I posted. I lost but was poking at my opponents, my friends. Believe it or not I do have other friends in my life. But quickly forget that most assume otherwise.”
The “Hands to Myself” singer ended her post by providing some perspective on the situation.
“Also,” she wrote, “it’s a basketball game.”
Fans who thought that Gomez was shading Swift were perhaps also disregarding the depth of their years-long friendship, which the Only Murders in the Building actress recently revealed has actually included the “Blank Space” singer writing songs about her. “‘Dorothea’ is about me,” she explained on the March 3 episode of her husband Benny Blanco’s podcast Friends Keep Secrets. “I feel like a lot of huge moments that were self-defining, from relationships to family to love to hate, all of it in between-we were figuring it out because I was 15 and she was 18.”
“We didn’t really know what was going on,” she continued. “We’ve never seen each other any differently. When I listen to it, I’m so impressed by how it’s eloquently put.”
Gomez also revealed that Swift wrote a second song about her, but she’s never released it.
“There’s this song that Taylor wrote about us and it was called ‘Family,'” she explained. “It was over, easily, a decade ago, insinuating in the lyrics, without quoting, it is basically saying you have these amazing dreams. You want to be in a movie, in every crowd I see you.”
“Then her part was, you believe in my stupid dreams, like playing stadiums,” Gomez added. “Now, when I listen to those songs, both of those things have happened for us. And that’s really sweet because back then, she was just like, ‘I wrote this song about us and it was just our story,’ and it was the sweetest thing.