There was only one music icon locked inSelena Gomez’s “Heart-Shaped Box” growing up.
She spoke about her fascination with the late rock star after taking part in a trivia game about herself with a super-fan on thelate night show. Shortly after playing the game, when she sat down for an interview, Kimmel asked, “Who was your Selena Gomez? Was there somebody you were kind of obsessed with?”
“Yeah,” Gomez responded, while nodding and smiling. “Kurt Cobain.”
Selena Gomez and Kurt Cobain.Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
Frazer Harrison/Getty Images; Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
“I kind of got obsessed and dyed my hair and cut my hair like him,” the hitmaker explained. “I know a little too much.”
When the host asked how big of a fan she was and whether she had posters up on her bedroom walls, Gomez revealed, “Yeah, I would rewatch his interviews, I would watch his performances, I had seen his documentary like 12 times.”
While the “Single Soon” artist hasn’t spoken publicly about her love for the grunge icon before, she’s subtly teased it over the years. In 2017, the Rare Beauty founder dyed her hair blonde and went for a ‘90s-inspired bleached-out look, which her colorists evendubbed “Nirvana Blonde.”
Selena Gomez with “Nirvana Blonde” hair.Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
That same year, she alsocaptioned a couple photos of herselfshared to Instagram with “all apologies,” seemingly in reference to the song of the same name off Nirvana’s classic 1993 albumIn Utero. In one of the photos, she even drew Xs over her eyes, resembling the “Smells Like Teen Spirit” band’s logo.
At the time — when her shaggy blonde bob resembled both Cobain and his wifeCourtney Love’s early ’90s hair cuts — Love, 59, also showed Gomez a bit of love. At GLAAD’s 2017Spirit Day Concert, the Hole frontwoman covered the singer-songwriter’s 2015 hit “Hands to Myself” along withJustin Tranter, who’s among the co-writers.
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The song marks her first single of the year and comes nearly six months after she dropped “Single Soon” in August 2023.
source: people.com
