Wolf Cousins Studios and Maratone Studios (Stockholm, Sweden)
Interscope Studios (Santa Monica, California)
Genre
Dance-pop
synth-pop
Length
3:20
Label
Interscope
Songwriter(s)
Justin Tranter
Julia Michaels
Robin Fredriksson
Mattias Larsson
Max Martin
[a]
Producer(s)
Mattman & Robin
Max Martin
Selena Gomez singles chronology
"Same Old Love" (2015)
"Hands to Myself" (2016)
"Kill Em with Kindness" (2016)
Music video
"Hands to Myself" on YouTube
"Hands to Myself" is a song recorded by American singer Selena Gomez for her second studio album, Revival (2015). It was released on January 20, 2016, as the record's third single by Interscope Records. The track was written by Gomez, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and its producers Mattman & Robin and Max Martin.[a] It is meant to add a fresh female perspective to the album and was influenced by the music of Prince. Musically, it is a dance-pop and synth-pop song backed by lightly clicking percussion, hand claps, a guitar riff and "tribal pop" synths. Throughout the track, Gomez uses both her higher vocal register for belting, as well as her lower range breathy vocals in a volume just above a whisper. She clips her enunciation of the lyrics, which detail sexual desire.
"Hands to Myself" received acclaim from music critics, who complimented its uncharacteristic production and lyrics, as well as Gomez's versatile vocal performance. An accompanying music video directed by Alek Keshishian was premiered as an Apple Music exclusive on December 21, 2015. The video depicts a film of Gomez dressed in lingerie playing a stalker of a Hollywood actor; critics commended its cinematography and the singer's appearance, hailing it as her sexiest and most revealing visual yet. Gomez promoted the song with televised performances on the 2015 Victoria's Secret Fashion Show and Saturday Night Live. It has also been lip-synched to by the Victoria's Secret Angels in a promotional video, and used in Beats Electronics' commercial for their Beats Pill portable speaker and was also featured in a television commercial for Pantene.[1] Commercially, "Hands to Myself" reached number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100, becoming Gomez's fifth consecutive top-ten hit in the United States and third from Revival. It also peaked within the top ten in Canada, New Zealand and Slovakia, and the top twenty in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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producer duo Merk & Kremont's single, "Hands Up". On June 15, they released their second extended play, People to People. On February 28, 2019, the Jonas...
In 2015 Keshishian directed the music video for Selena Gomez' song "HandstoMyself". Gomez, managed by Keshishian's sister Aleen, was a fan of Truth or...
sounded so much like myself that I couldn't picture anyone else singing it." In April 2017, her new song "How Do We Get Back to Love" was premiered on...
think 'Hands Clean' was maybe the tenth song that I wrote and I just wrote it with a guitar in a room." Of the 27 songs written for the album, "Hands Clean"...
preceded by the release of the singles "Complete Mess", "Take My Hand", "Me Myself & I", "Blender" and "Older" (featuring Vietnamese-American singer...
"I Touch Myself" is a song recorded by Australian rock band Divinyls. It was written by the songwriting team of Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg along with...
songwriter. Sivan received a nomination for a cover of Selena Gomez's song "HandstoMyself" & Justin Bieber's "Sorry". Shared. "Nominees Announced for the Australian...
"Good for You" "Survivors" "Slow Down" "Love You like a Love Song" "HandstoMyself" "Who Says" "Transfiguration" / "Nobody" "Feel Me" "Me & My Girls"...
Treat Myself is the third major-label studio album by the American singer-songwriter Meghan Trainor. Epic Records released it on January 31, 2020, after...
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