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\"Rare\" is Selena's first album since 2015's \"Revival.\" Why did it take her so long to follow that album up? Because, well, life.

\"I thought that I was so ready. Like two years ago, I thought I was ready,\" she told Spotify. \"I had collected all of these beautiful sessions -- I don't even remember half of them, because it evolved each year. And then something would happen to me and it would be very drastic, so that it would take me somewhere else.\"

Finally, the singer said, she \"all of a sudden ... found this healing,\" which inspired \"the whole end of the album.\"

The album's emotional first single, \"Lose You to Love Me,\" hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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