Selena Gomez, performing during the 2013 Radio Disney Music Awards in April, has released "Stars Dance." (Photo: Frederick M. Brown, Getty Images)
In four years, Selena Gomez has gone from a young actress covering songs with the word "magic" in them for the Wizards of Waverly Place soundtrack album to a chart-topping recording artist with a burgeoning feature-film career.
As Come & Get It, the lead single from Stars Dance (* * ½ out of four) has shown, Gomez is making more commercially viable music now, but she's still only as good as her producers, who now include Rock Mafia, Stargate and the Cataracs.
The dance-pop sound they've built for her brings in lots of outside elements, including Bhangra, dancehall and dubstep.
And while much has been made of Love Will Remember for being about ex-boyfriend Justin Bieber, Forget Forever is a better break-up song, with the couplet "Our love was made to rule the world/You came and broke the perfect girl."
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