Love Song

The love song that I choose is "The Heart Wants What It Wants" of Selena Gomez because I completely love this song because the emotion that Selena feels is so deep. 

The song is from the album For you of 2014. In the video Shiloh Fernandez, an american actor, plays the boyfriend of Selena.

[Verse 1]

You got me sipping on something

I can't compare to nothing I've ever known

I'm hoping that after this fever I'll survive

I know I'm acting a bit crazy

Strung out, a little bit hazy

Hand over heart, I'm praying

That I'm gonna make it out alive

[Pre-Chorus]

The bed's getting cold and you're not here

The future that we hold is so unclear

But I'm not alive until you call

And I'll bet the odds against it all

Save your advice, cause I won't hear

You might be right, but I don't care

There's a million reasons

Why I should give you up

[Chorus]

But the heart wants what it wants

The heart wants what it wants

(...)

In the intro of the video, Selena is crying because she is confusing about her love with Justin. This song sees an emotional Selena explaining her account of her relationship with Justin Bieber (although she doesn’t actually name him), and seemingly justifying why she remained with him for so long. Through writing songs about her lover and sharing them to the world, she felt she understood her lover more, and that their romance was strong.

Selena expresses that she's very confused and she is feeling crazy because he makes her feel like all the faults in their relationship and the reasons why he is ignoring her are her fault. She thinks is doing wrong, but its his fault not hers. He let her go and she’s feeling like she’s done something.

The title of the song comes from the Emily Dickinson quote:

"The Heart wants what it wants — or else it does not care"

It means to go with your heart rather than your head despite knowing that your head would be the correct choice. Selena may be using this to justify her long standing relationship with Justin Bieber, although there were a million reasons why she should have ended their relationship earlier, she let love prevail and continued to be with him to please her heart despite knowing that it was not working between the two of them, and as evident by the raw emotion in her voice during the video intro.