Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco and Gracie Abrams team up for breezy collab ‘Call Me When You Break Up’

Selena Gomez, Benny Blanco and Gracie Abrams have joined forces on their breezy new collab ‘Call Me When You Break Up’.

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Opening with the sound of an answering machine, Gomez takes the time to sing the lines: “Call me when you break up / I wanna be the first one on your mind when you wake up / I miss the way we’d stay up / We’d talk about forever when I’m takin’ off my makeup,” pleading for a previous lover to hit her up when they depart from their current relationship.

Abrams trades verses with Gomez, singing: “Call me when you break up / I’m battlin’ the lack of us, I’ve looked for medication / Tried every obvious replacement / In bars, in strangers’ beds until my faith was in the basement,” admitting that her split with her previous lover left her down in the dumps.

The song’s accompanying video sees Gomez and Abrams sing the track from a bed while recording via a vertical camera, making it feel like a video call. At the end, Blanco shows up.

‘Call Me When You Break Up’ marks the first collaboration between the trio and the second between Abrams and Blanco, who previously teamed up for 2021’s ‘Unlearn’. The track is the second single to be released from Gomez and Blanco’s first collaborative album, ‘I Said I Love You First’, which is set for release on March 21 – you can pre-save and pre-order the album here. The lead single ‘Scared Of Loving You’ was released on Valentine’s Day.

‘I Said I Love You First’ will chronicle Gomez and her fiancé Blanco’s “love story” – they worked together on several of her hit songs dating back to 2015’s ‘Same Old Love’. The pair confirmed their romantic relationship in December 2023, with Gomez confirming that she had been seeing the producer for about six months. They announced their engagement in December 2024.

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The new music follows Gomez confessing to fellow actor Saoirse Ronan that while she thinks she’s “a little too old for the pop star life” now, she’ll “always have music in my life because my partner’s a musician, and I love having moments to do it for fun.”

Prior to that, she said that her music career “isn’t going away”, but that she’d like to focus on acting as she gets to hold on to her “sanity” as acting would allow her to tell other people’s stories rather than her own through music.

Previously speaking to NME‘s Alex Flood to promote her latest film Emilia Perez with Zoe Saldaña, she was asked for an update on new music as her last album, ‘Rare‘, had arrived back in 2020. When asked about a new album, Gomez replied: “Well, if I had one, I would love to talk about it. I think right now it’s been really nice focusing on this side of the playing field. We’ll see, you never know.” – read NME‘s full chat with Gomez and Saldaña here.

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