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156-421: Alek Keshishian ( Armenian : Ալեք Գևորգի Քեշիշեան , born 30 July 1964) is an Armenian-American film and commercial director, writer, producer and music video director. His 1991 documentary, Madonna: Truth or Dare was the highest-grossing documentary of all time until 2002; it "changed the way filmmakers explored the world of celebrity" and had a "profound impact on LGBTQ representation in film." Keshishian

312-474: A Screen Actors Guild Award . Gomez received her first nomination for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series at the 76th Primetime Emmy Awards , marking the fourth time a Latina was a nominee for comedy series. With a third consecutive nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series , Gomez became the most-nominated Latina producer in the category's history. Gomez reprised

468-551: A UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador since 2009. She founded the cosmetic company Rare Beauty in 2020, valued at $ 2 billion in 2024, and the mental health-focused non-profit Rare Impact Fund . She has appeared in listicles such as the Time 100 (2020) and Forbes 30 Under 30 (2016 and 2020), was named Billboard 's Woman of the Year (2017), and was made a member of the Order of Arts and Letters by

624-819: A compilation album to complete her contract with her label . The single became her second top-ten hit in the U.S., and reached the top-ten in Canada. That same month, Gomez released her first greatest hits album , For You . The compilation album debuted at number twenty-four on the U.S. Billboard 200, earning 35,506 album-equivalent units in its first week. Gomez officially parted ways with Hollywood Records and later signed with Interscope Records in December 2014. While working on her second studio album , Gomez collaborated with German DJ Zedd on " I Want You to Know ", released in February 2015, and debuted at number-seventeen in

780-820: A Chance . She appeared in a remix of the Forever the Sickest Kids ' single " Whoa Oh! (Me vs. Everyone) " in April of that year. Gomez, along with Demi Lovato , starred in the Disney Channel film Princess Protection Program , which aired in June 2009. The film had a total of 8.5 million viewers during its premiere. The pair recorded the song " One and the Same " for the film's soundtrack. She next starred in Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie ,

936-416: A big responsibility. She gave up everything for me, had three jobs, supported me, sacrificed her life for me." Gomez had a close relationship with her grandparents as a child and appeared in various pageants. Her grandparents often took care of her while her parents finished their schooling, and she has said they "raised her" until she found success in show business. Gomez first gained an interest in pursuing

1092-470: A career in entertainment watching her mother prepare for stage productions. In 2002, she began her acting career on the children's television series Barney & Friends , portraying the character Gianna. The show was her first acting gig. Gomez recalled of the experience, "I was very shy when I was little [...] I didn't know what 'camera right' was. I didn't know what blocking was. I learned everything from Barney ." Gomez appeared in thirteen episodes of

1248-520: A consistent Proto-Indo-European pattern distinct from Iranian, and that the inflectional morphology was different from that of Iranian languages. The hypothesis that Greek is Armenian's closest living relative originates with Holger Pedersen (1924), who noted that the number of Greek-Armenian lexical cognates is greater than that of agreements between Armenian and any other Indo-European language. Antoine Meillet (1925, 1927) further investigated morphological and phonological agreement and postulated that

1404-484: A conversation with Zane Lowe for Apple Music , Gomez was joined by Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter to talk about the creative process, incl. collaborative songwriting for her album, Rare . Gomez co-wrote every song on that album. In 2009, Gomez was part of Sears 's back-to-school fashion campaign and featured in television commercials. She hosted the "Sears Arrive Air Band Casting Call" to select five winners for

1560-620: A film adaptation of the children's novel series by Beverly Cleary , in which she portrayed Beezus Quimby . The film was well received by critics; Roger Ebert described it as "a sweet salute," and found both actresses "appealing". Additionally, Gomez reprised the voice role of Princess Selenia in Arthur 3: The War of the Two Worlds . That same year, Selena Gomez & the Scene released their second studio album A Year Without Rain , which debuted on

1716-406: A grownup, but with no real idea what that might entail". She also served as executive producer and starred in the television special The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex on the Disney Channel. Despite earlier claims that she would be taking a break from music, Gomez released in April 2013, " Come & Get It ", as the lead single of her solo debut album. It became Gomez's first top-ten entry on

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1872-499: A hiatus to spend time with her family. In January 2014, it was reported that Gomez had spent two weeks at Dawn at The Meadows, which is a treatment center in Wickenburg, Arizona , that specializes in treating addiction and trauma in young people. Her representative stated that she had spent time there "voluntarily [...] but not for substance abuse". Gomez confirmed in 2015 that she had been diagnosed with lupus and that after canceling

2028-506: A later interview that Gomez was not in a "great place" at that time. In 2019 Gomez asked him to shoot a trip she was making to Kenya on behalf of a charity and the documentary was reintroduced. Keshishian shot more than 200 hours of verite footage for the film. Titled My Mind & Me , it was released in 2022. In a review in the New York Times , Chris Azzopardi wrote that the film was "sincere and soul-baring" and that Keshishian "worked

2184-617: A lead role in Only Murders in the Building since 2021, for which she earned nominations at the Golden Globe and Emmy Awards . Her other accolades include an American Music Award , a Billboard Music Award , a Cannes Film Festival Award , two MTV Video Music Awards , and 16 Guinness World Records . Gomez has worked with charitable organizations. She advocates for mental health , and gender , racial , and LGBT equality , and has been

2340-468: A loan from Armenian (compare to Armenian եւ yev , ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁epi ). Other loans from Armenian into Urartian includes personal names, toponyms, and names of deities. Loan words from Iranian languages , along with the other ancient accounts such as that of Xenophon above, initially led some linguists to erroneously classify Armenian as an Iranian language. Scholars such as Paul de Lagarde and F. Müller believed that

2496-479: A more adult pop sound into her repertoire. Early in her career, Gomez cited Bruno Mars as an influence for "his style of music, his style in general, the way he performs, the way he carries himself". Gomez has also cited Christina Aguilera , Britney Spears , Beyoncé , Rihanna , and Taylor Swift as influences. Gomez's debut solo album Stars Dance (2013) was prominently influenced by Spears, Swift, and EDM producer Skrillex ; her second album, Revival ,

2652-496: A more mature character than she did previously and reportedly led to her having a "bit of a meltdown on set". Spring Breakers received generally positive reviews from critics, with some called it a potential cult classic . The film entered various retrospective "best of" lists, including the BBC's 100 Greatest Films of the 21st Century . Reflecting on Gomez's transition from Disney, Manohla Dargis from The New York Times wrote: "It

2808-425: A network of schools where modern Armenian was taught, dramatically increased the rate of literacy (in spite of the obstacles by the colonial administrators), even in remote rural areas. The emergence of literary works entirely written in the modern versions increasingly legitimized the language's existence. By the turn of the 20th century both varieties of the one modern Armenian language prevailed over Grabar and opened

2964-564: A new song titled " Feel Me " to the setlist of her Revival Tour. The song was later released in February 2020, due to high demand from fans. After touring in North America, Asia and Oceania, she canceled the European and South America legs in August 2016 due to anxiety, panic attacks and depression caused by her lupus. Gomez featured on Charlie Puth 's single, " We Don't Talk Anymore ". The song

3120-434: A place that is scary with having the power that she has over so many people—to really be honest with her lyrics," "She's extremely collaborative and she has great ideas. We'll just talk. I've only had the chance to get in with her once, [but] I'm sure we'll be working together, hopefully, in the future. But she comes up with tons of ideas and concepts, and she's a really great writer. It just flows naturally, and we just write on

3276-507: A resurgence of the 1992 sexual abuse allegation against Allen prompted by the MeToo movement , Gomez made a donation of over $ 1 million, exceeding her salary from the film, to the Time's Up initiative. The film received mixed reviews from critics, but Gomez's performance was praised; Variety 's Jessica Kiang wrote: "Gomez comes out the best of the younger cast, husking her way through some of

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3432-593: A single in February. For her work as a featured artist on Coldplay 's ninth studio album, Music of the Spheres , she was nominated for Album of the Year at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards . In May, Gomez hosted an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live . She later made a cameo appearance on the show in December. In July, Gomez executive produced the ViX+ docuseries Mi Vecino, El Cartel . In August, Gomez

3588-562: A song titled " 999 ". Gomez starred in and executive produced the mystery-comedy series Only Murders in the Building alongside Steve Martin and Martin Short , which premiered on Hulu in August 2021, and set the record for the most-watched comedy premiere in the platform's history. Ahead of the official premiere of the series, Gomez revealed that she was happy to have played a character that matched her current actual age, saying that she "signed [her] life away" to The Walt Disney Company at

3744-479: A sorority in the comedy Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016); the film grossed US$ 108 million worldwide, and received mixed to positive reviews. Gomez embarked on her worldwide Revival Tour in May 2016. She claimed that the tour would focus solely on her as an artist and would feature less choreography and fewer effects than her previous tour . Gomez began working on her third studio album while touring and added

3900-409: A television film based on the series. The film premiered in August to an audience of 11.4 million viewers, becoming cable's number-one scripted telecast of the year and was the second-most watched TV movie on cable, behind High School Musical 2 . Roxana Hadadi of The Washington Post credited all three performers—Gomez, David Henrie and Jake T. Austin —for their "acting skills that carry

4056-643: Is a true co-star in the series and does a superb job of meshing with Martin and Short to form one of the more entertaining albeit unlikely friendship trios in recent memory." Gomez won the Satellite Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy , while she was nominated for the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series , twice for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy , and thrice for

4212-551: Is an American singer, actress, producer, and businesswoman. She began her career as a child actress, appearing on the television series Barney & Friends (2002–2004), and emerged as a teen idol for her leading role on the Disney Channel sitcom Wizards of Waverly Place (2007–2012). She signed with Hollywood Records in 2008 and formed the band Selena Gomez & the Scene , which released three albums: Kiss & Tell (2009), A Year Without Rain (2010), and When

4368-545: Is an independent branch of the Indo-European languages . It is of interest to linguists for its distinctive phonological changes within that family. Armenian exhibits more satemization than centumization , although it is not classified as belonging to either of these subgroups. Some linguists tentatively conclude that Armenian, Greek (and Phrygian ), Albanian and Indo-Iranian were dialectally close to each other; within this hypothetical dialect group, Proto-Armenian

4524-545: Is clearly the dialect to be most closely related to Armenian. Eric P. Hamp (1976, 91) supports the Graeco-Armenian thesis and even anticipates a time "when we should speak of Helleno-Armenian" (meaning the postulate of a Graeco-Armenian proto-language). Armenian shares the augment and a negator derived from the set phrase in the Proto-Indo-European language * ne h₂oyu kʷid ("never anything" or "always nothing"),

4680-469: Is derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂r̥ǵipyós , with cognates in Sanskrit (ऋजिप्य, ṛjipyá ), Avestan ( ərəzifiia ), and Greek (αἰγίπιος, aigípios ). Hrach Martirosyan and Armen Petrosyan propose additional borrowed words of Armenian origin loaned into Urartian and vice versa, including grammatical words and parts of speech, such as Urartian eue ("and"), attested in the earliest Urartian texts and likely

4836-466: Is not considered conclusive evidence of a period of common isolated development. There are words used in Armenian that are generally believed to have been borrowed from Anatolian languages, particularly from Luwian , although some researchers have identified possible Hittite loanwords as well. One notable loanword from Anatolian is Armenian xalam , "skull", cognate to Hittite ḫalanta , "head". In 1985,

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4992-463: Is not surprising that Miss Gomez quit Disney. "In "Spring Breakers" [she] have the chance to simulate the behavior that feeds the tabloids without the humiliations and career-crushing price paid [...]". Gomez played the voice role of Mavis Dracula in the animated film Hotel Transylvania , which premiered in September at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival , and was released in theaters

5148-415: Is the sound of a newly empowered pop artist growing into her strengths like never before." Kristen S.Hé of Billboard called it "one of the most influential pop albums of the late 2010s." Rob Sheffileld from Rolling Stone Australia called it "one of the past decade's most influential pop albums. (You could say it did for the 2010s what Blackout did for the 2000s.)". The album debuted at number-one on

5304-552: Is the working language. Armenian (without reference to a specific variety) is officially recognized as a minority language in Cyprus , Hungary , Iraq , Poland , Romania , and Ukraine . It is recognized as a minority language and protected in Turkey by the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne . Selena Gomez Selena Marie Gomez ( / s ə ˈ l iː n ə ˈ ɡ oʊ m ɛ z / sə- LEE -nə GOH -mez ; born July 22, 1992)

5460-434: The 2016 American Music Awards , where she was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Artist of the Year , the first of which she won. And her spirited speech became one of the most-powerful awards show speeches in recent history. At the 2016 iHeartRadio Music Awards , Gomez won Biggest Triple Threat, and at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards , she was nominated for two awards including Top Female Artist . In

5616-526: The 42nd People's Choice Awards . Gomez released her second studio album, Revival , in October 2015. It is primarily a dance-pop and electropop record with R&B vibes. The album was reviewed positively by critics, who praised its production and lyrical content. Writing for Rolling Stone , Brittany Spanos stated that " Revival is an audacious name for a 23-year-old singer's second album, but from start to finish, Gomez earns it," noting that "[t]his

5772-672: The 64th Annual Grammy Awards . It also received Latin Pop Album of the Year nominations from the Billboard Latin Music , Latin American Music and Lo Nuestro award ceremonies. Gomez's expansion of her artistry was praised; Entertainment Weekly 's Marcus Jones called her "a far more versatile musician than she's been given credit for". It spawned three singles: " De Una Vez ", " Baila Conmigo " with Rauw Alejandro , and " Selfish Love " with DJ Snake . With this EP and

5928-455: The 73rd Venice International Film Festival , and was met with underwhelming reviews. She also guest starred in the Comedy Central variety sketch series Inside Amy Schumer . Gomez and Canadian singer Tory Lanez were featured on Norwegian DJ Cashmere Cat 's single, " Trust Nobody ". Following the cancelation of her tour, Gomez rechecked into rehab to focus on her mental health and

6084-458: The Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia (11–14th centuries) resulted in the addition of two more characters to the alphabet (" օ " and " ֆ "), bringing the total number to 38. The Book of Lamentations by Gregory of Narek (951–1003) is an example of the development of a literature and writing style of Old Armenian by the 10th century. In addition to elevating the literary style and vocabulary of

6240-553: The Armenian genocide , mostly in the diaspora ). The differences between them are considerable but they are mutually intelligible after significant exposure. Some subdialects such as Homshetsi are not mutually intelligible with other varieties. Although Armenians were known to history much earlier (for example, they were mentioned in the 6th-century BC Behistun Inscription and in Xenophon 's 4th century BC history, The Anabasis ),

6396-618: The Billboard Hot 100, and her first single to top the Pop Airplay chart. It also reached the top-ten on charts in Australia and Canada. Gomez later reprised the voice role of Mavis in Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015); the film was met with a positive critical reception and commercial success upon release, grossing US$ 474 million worldwide. She was awarded Favorite Animated Movie Voice at

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6552-450: The Billboard Hot 100, which is the longest active run of any artist according to Billboard . In November 2018, Gomez surpassed Drake and became Spotify's most-streamed artist with 46 million monthly listeners while not releasing new album since 2015 ( Ariana Grande later surpassed this record). Gomez also featured on Julia Michaels 's single " Anxiety ", released in January 2019, and

6708-634: The Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress , and were honored, as chevaliers , with the Order of Arts and Letters by the French government. The film had a theatrical release in France on August 21 and received a limited theatrical release in the US and Canada on November 1, before its debut on Netflix on November 13. Gomez co-produced and appeared in the documentary Louder: The Soundtrack of Change , which

6864-563: The Chart-Topper Award at the 2015 Billboard Women in Music event. Gomez was a key advisor during the ninth season of the reality singing competition The Voice . She made a cameo appearance in Adam McKay 's film The Big Short (2015). In 2016, Gomez starred as Dot, a young runaway hitchhiker, in the comedy-drama The Fundamentals of Caring with Paul Rudd , which premiered at

7020-574: The Critics Choice Association , and also won the MTV Movie & TV Award for Best Music Documentary. Gomez released the song " My Mind & Me " to coincide with the release of the documentary. The song received Variety 's "Film Song of the Year" honor. In March 2023, Gomez appeared in the second-season finale of the Apple TV+ documentary television series Dear... . She released

7176-515: The Government of France in 2024. She is one of the wealthiest musicians , and is the most-followed woman on Instagram. Selena Marie Gomez was born on July 22, 1992, in Grand Prairie, Texas , to Ricardo Joel Gomez and Texas-born former stage actress Mandy Teefey. She was named after Tejano singer Selena Quintanilla , who died in 1995. Her father is of Mexican descent, while her mother, who

7332-631: The Greek language , the Armenian language, and the Indo-Iranian languages . Graeco-Aryan unity would have become divided into Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian by the mid-3rd millennium BC. Conceivably, Proto-Armenian would have been located between Proto-Greek and Proto-Indo-Iranian, consistent with the fact that Armenian shares certain features only with Indo-Iranian (the satem change) but others only with Greek ( s > h ). Graeco-Aryan has comparatively wide support among Indo-Europeanists who believe

7488-631: The Indo-European homeland to be located in the Armenian Highlands , the " Armenian hypothesis ". Early and strong evidence was given by Euler's 1979 examination on shared features in Greek and Sanskrit nominal flection. Used in tandem with the Graeco-Armenian hypothesis, the Armenian language would also be included under the label Aryano-Greco-Armenic , splitting into Proto-Greek/Phrygian and "Armeno-Aryan" (ancestor of Armenian and Indo-Iranian ). Classical Armenian (Arm: grabar ), attested from

7644-743: The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), "Calm Down" was the second best-selling song of 2023 globally. Billboard named it as Gomez's biggest Hot 100 hit. Gomez was the focus of the Alek Keshishian -directed "raw and intimate" documentary film, Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me . The film premiered at the AFI Fest in November 2022, and was released two days after on Apple TV+ and in select movie theaters. It

7800-528: The Mekhitarists . The first Armenian periodical, Azdarar , was published in grabar in 1794. The classical form borrowed numerous words from Middle Iranian languages , primarily Parthian , and contains smaller inventories of loanwords from Greek, Syriac, Aramaic, Arabic, Mongol, Persian, and indigenous languages such as Urartian . An effort to modernize the language in Bagratid Armenia and

7956-550: The Outstanding Children's Program at the 61st Primetime Emmy Awards . It garnered positive reviews, with Gomez's being particularly praised for her comic timing and sarcastic delivery. In 2008, while working on the second season of Wizards of Waverly Place , Gomez voiced Helga in the animated film Horton Hears a Who! . The film became a commercial and critical success, grossing over US$ 300 million worldwide. Gomez then starred as an aspiring dancer Mary Santiago in

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8112-475: The Sundance Film Festival in January, and was released on Netflix five months later. The film received a positive critical response; Tristram Fane Saunders of The Daily Telegraph described Gomez's performance as "impressive" and "mature". Gomez performed as the musical guest on an episode of the NBC late-night sketch comedy Saturday Night Live in January 2016. Gomez played the president of

8268-583: The WMA and Brillstein companies to manage her career. The Hollywood Reporter informed: "Selena's desire to find fresh handlers is part of a strategy to "move on into more adult-oriented fare in film and music"", and finally get rid of the image of the "Disney's Teen Idol". This change fueled rumors that her contract with Hollywood Records was coming to an end. In November 2014, Gomez surprise-released her new single " The Heart Wants What It Wants ", and confirmed after months of speculation that she would be releasing

8424-599: The dance-pop -influenced Rare (2020), contained her first Billboard Hot 100 number-one single " Lose You to Love Me ". Gomez then released the Spanish-language EP Revelación (2021), which earned her nominations at the Grammys and Latin Grammy Awards . She has released many collaborative singles, including " We Don't Talk Anymore ", " It Ain't Me ", " Wolves ", " Taki Taki ", and " Calm Down (Remix) ",

8580-421: The "song of two summers". At the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards , the song was nominated for Song of the Year , and won Best Afrobeats ; while it won Top Afrobeats Song at the 2023 Billboard Music Awards . It became the first African artist-led track to reach 1 billion streams on Spotify and 1 billion on-demand streams in the US; its music video became the most-viewed Afrobeats song on YouTube. According to

8736-411: The 2010s. Winston Cook-Wilson of Spin magazine found Gomez's vocals pristine and the track "charmingly weird", calling its lyrics and sample usage "harebrained but ultimately brilliant". Gomez released the single " Fetish " featuring rapper Gucci Mane two month later. In October 2017, Gomez and EDM producer Marshmello released the single " Wolves ". The song was a commercial success, and reached

8892-408: The 5th century to the 19th century as the literary standard (up to the 11th century also as a spoken language with different varieties), was partially superseded by Middle Armenian , attested from the 12th century to the 18th century. Specialized literature prefers "Old Armenian" for grabar as a whole, and designates as "Classical" the language used in the 5th century literature, "Post-Classical" from

9048-481: The Armenian language by adding well above a thousand new words, through his other hymns and poems Gregory paved the way for his successors to include secular themes and vernacular language in their writings. The thematic shift from mainly religious texts to writings with secular outlooks further enhanced and enriched the vocabulary. "A Word of Wisdom", a poem by Hovhannes Sargavak devoted to a starling, legitimizes poetry devoted to nature, love, or female beauty. Gradually,

9204-460: The Hurro-Urartian and Northeast Caucasian origins for these words and instead suggest native Armenian etymologies, leaving the possibility that these words may have been loaned into Hurro-Urartian and Caucasian languages from Armenian, and not vice versa. A notable example is arciv , meaning "eagle", believed to have been the origin of Urartian Arṣibi and Northeast Caucasian arzu . This word

9360-629: The New Hampshire Children's Theatre, American Children's Theatre, and the "I Like the U.S. of A" national touring company. Keshishian attended St. Paul's School and Harvard University, graduating with honors in 1986. His senior thesis was a pop-opera adaptation of Wuthering Heights . The production, which included music by Kate Bush and Madonna , received significant attention. Keshishian moved to Los Angeles following his graduation, where he directed music videos for artists including Bobby Brown , Run-DMC and Elton John . In 1991, when he

9516-656: The Russian Empire), removed almost all of their Turkish lexical influences in the 20th century, primarily following the Armenian genocide . In addition to Armenia and Turkey, where it is indigenous , Armenian is spoken among the diaspora . According to Ethnologue , globally there are 1.6 million Western Armenian speakers and 3.7 million Eastern Armenian speakers, totalling 5.3 million Armenian speakers. In Georgia, Armenian speakers are concentrated in Ninotsminda and Akhalkalaki districts where they represent over 90% of

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9672-454: The Russian and Ottoman empires led to creation of two separate and different environments under which Armenians lived. Halfway through the 19th century, two important concentrations of Armenian communities were further consolidated. Because of persecutions or the search for better economic opportunities, many Armenians living under Ottoman rule gradually moved to Istanbul , whereas Tbilisi became

9828-730: The Scene was influenced by electronic rock and pop rock , while her subsequent records with the band opted for a dance-pop sound. A Year Without Rain noted synth-pop characteristics, and When the Sun Goes Down featured a more electropop and electro-disco musical direction. Her debut solo album Stars Dance was rooted in the EDM-pop genre—Gomez herself described it as "baby dubstep " —drawing elements from electronic , disco , techno , and dancehall . Her songs " The Heart Wants What It Wants " and " Good for You " have been described as "minimalistic" and "grown-up", introducing

9984-424: The Scene on hiatus. The hiatus eventually became a permanent split. Gomez described her time with the band as an "exploratory period" as a musician, after which she decided to pursue a solo music career: "And there was a moment when I felt like I could do it and I wanted to try it on my own". That year, Wizards of Waverly Place officially ended its run on the Disney Channel after four seasons. Gomez starred in

10140-815: The Soviet linguist Igor M. Diakonoff noted the presence in Classical Armenian of what he calls a "Caucasian substratum" identified by earlier scholars, consisting of loans from the Kartvelian and Northeast Caucasian languages . Noting that Hurro-Urartian-speaking peoples inhabited the Armenian homeland in the second millennium BC, Diakonoff identifies in Armenian a Hurro-Urartian substratum of social, cultural, and animal and plant terms such as ałaxin "slave girl" ( ← Hurr. al(l)a(e)ḫḫenne ), cov "sea" ( ← Urart. ṣûǝ "(inland) sea"), ułt "camel" ( ← Hurr. uḷtu ), and xnjor "apple (tree)" ( ← Hurr. ḫinzuri ). Some of

10296-498: The Sun Goes Down (2011). Gomez has since released three solo studio albums that debuted atop the US Billboard 200 . Her EDM -infused debut record, Stars Dance (2013), yielded the international top-ten single " Come & Get It ". She moved to Interscope Records and released the electropop album Revival (2015), supported by the top-ten singles " Good for You ", " Same Old Love ", and " Hands to Myself ". Its follow-up,

10452-403: The Sun Goes Down , was released the following year, to mixed reviews. It debuted at number four on the U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 78,000 copies, and peaked at number three the following week. The album's lead single, " Who Says ", was the band's highest charting effort, peaking at number twenty-one in the U.S. Its second single, " Love You like a Love Song ", went on to become

10608-592: The Toronto International Film Festival and was shown as the gala screening for the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival . Outfest also screened the film. After returning to the US in 2006, he directed commercials and special projects including Jennifer Aniston 's two Smartwater campaigns. He also directed the comedic shower shorts that featured Chelsea Handler with Sandra Bullock and Conan O'Brien . In 2011, with Madonna, he co-wrote

10764-429: The U.S. Billboard 200 at number four with sales of over 66,000. The album received mixed to positive reviews, where some critics reacting negatively to Gomez's Auto-Tuned vocals. Both of the record's singles, " Round & Round " and " A Year Without Rain ", achieved moderate success. The band was awarded Favorite Breakout Artist at the 37th People's Choice Awards . The band's third and final studio album, When

10920-450: The U.S. Billboard 200 with first-week sales of 117,000 album units , and was certified platinum by the RIAA. It remains Gomez's highest first-week sales to date. " Same Old Love " was released as the album's second single and topped the Pop Airplay chart. It also peaked at number-five in the U.S., tying with "Good for You" as Gomez's highest-charting single at the time, and reached the top-ten in Canada. " Hands to Myself " served as

11076-621: The U.S. Billboard Hot 100, reaching number six, and also reached the top-ten in Canada and the U.K. Stars Dance was released in July. The record is musically rooted in EDM and electropop . It became her first album to debut at number one in the U.S., selling 97,000 copies in its first week, and also reached number one in Canada. It received mixed reviews from music critics, with some noticing her inability to create her own musical identity and panning her vocal abilities. The album's second single, " Slow Down ", achieved moderate success. Gomez incorporated choreographed dance routines into

11232-568: The U.S. In May, she appeared in Taylor Swift 's music video for " Bad Blood ". Gomez released " Good for You " featuring rapper ASAP Rocky as the lead single from her second studio album, in June. The song debuted at number-one on the Digital Songs chart with first-week sales of 179,000 copies—the best sales week in Gomez's career for a single. "Good for You" became Gomez's first top-five single on

11388-447: The U.S. and the U.K. Gomez voiced Mavis again in Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation , which was released in July. With box office earnings of US$ 528 million, the film was a commercial success, and received mixed to positive reviews. Gomez featured on DJ Snake 's song " Taki Taki " alongside Ozuna and Cardi B , released in September. The single achieved global success, reaching

11544-562: The U.S. with first-week sales of 66,000 copies. The album received mixed reviews, with some critics praising its "fun" nature and others criticizing Gomez's vocal performance. Although the lead single was not commercially successful, the second single, " Naturally ", became a breakthrough hit, reaching number twenty-nine in the U.S. and number seven in the United Kingdom. In 2010, Gomez starred alongside Joey King in Ramona and Beezus ,

11700-502: The US, and topped the charts in ten other territories, including Australia, Canada, and Scotland, whilst peaking at number two in the UK. Primarily a dance-pop record, Rare features elements of R&B , electronic music , and alternative pop . The album received positive reviews from music critics, who praised its production and cohesiveness, with many calling it Gomez's best album to date; Jem Aswad of Variety labeled Rare "one of

11856-564: The album's music videos and her promotional live performances, having been inspired by artists such as Janet Jackson and Britney Spears . The video of "Come & Get It" won the Best Pop Video at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards . Gomez embarked on her Stars Dance Tour in August 2013. After performing in North America and Europe, Gomez canceled the Australian and Asian legs of the tour in December 2013, claiming that she would be taking

12012-576: The album's third single and became her third consecutive number-one on the Pop Airplay, making Gomez the sixth woman to score at least three number-one singles on the Pop Airplay chart from a single set. The single also peaked within the top-ten in the U.S., and the top-five in Canada. " Kill Em with Kindness " was released as the Revival 's fourth and final single four months later. For her performance on Billboard ' s music charts, Gomez received

12168-458: The artist stated that she prefers acting over music, and only has "one more album in [her]". She revealed that she "never really intended on being a singer full-time" but "that hobby" evolved into a career when she was working with Disney. In February, Gomez released the standalone single " Love On ", which debuted within the top 60 in the US, and the top 70 on the Global 200 chart. Gomez starred as

12324-526: The band's highest performing single in the U.S. to date, peaking at number twenty-two on the Billboard Hot 100, where it spent 38 weeks, and reached the top ten in Canada, topping the chart in Russia . Alex Frank from Pitchfork called the song "a cult karaoke classic". In 2022, Billboard ranked the song as the biggest song that peaked at number twenty-two. Billboard featured Gomez on their 21 Under 21 list in 2010, 2011, and 2012. Gomez starred in

12480-399: The best pop albums to be released in recent memory". Two other singles were released from the album: the title track , in conjunction with the album, and the fourth and final single " Boyfriend ", released with the deluxe edition in April 2020. In January 2020, Gomez voiced a giraffe in the adventure film Dolittle , directed by Stephen Gaghan . The film, starring Robert Downey Jr. ,

12636-428: The box office the week of its release, the critical response to the film was lukewarm. At age 29, Keshishian moved to London, where he focused on photography and commercials. He produced work for clients including Coca-Cola , Peugeot , Volkswagen , Brut by Fabergé , Aprilia , Baileys , and Max Factor . He also wrote, directed, and produced the independent film Love and Other Disasters . The film premiered at

12792-537: The brand, which was formed by Adjmi CH Brands LLC, the holding company for the brand. From 2010 to 2014, Gomez worked with retailer Kmart to release the clothing line. It was announced on July 14, 2011, that Gomez had signed a license agreement with Adrenalina, an extreme sports and adventure-themed lifestyle brand, to develop, manufacture, and distribute her own fragrance. Chairman and CEO of Adrenalina, Ilia Lekach , said, "We are incredibly enthused to be working with Ms. Gomez and will reveal more details pertaining to

12948-434: The center of Armenians living under Russian rule. These two cosmopolitan cities very soon became the primary poles of Armenian intellectual and cultural life. The introduction of new literary forms and styles, as well as many new ideas sweeping Europe, reached Armenians living in both regions. This created an ever-growing need to elevate the vernacular, Ashkharhabar, to the dignity of a modern literary language, in contrast to

13104-532: The comedy film Monte Carlo (2011), with Leighton Meester and Katie Cassidy ; she played the lead role of Grace, a teenager "mistaken for a socialite" named Cordelia, also portrayed by Gomez, "while on a trip to Paris". In preparation for the role, she learned to play polo and received dialect coaching to speak in two different British accents; Gomez's accent was described as "unconvincing". The film received mixed reviews from critic. Nick Schager from Slant Magazine found Gomez "cute, but too bland to lend

13260-434: The controversial exploitation Harmony Korine -directed Spring Breakers (2012), alongside James Franco , Vanessa Hudgens , Ashley Benson and Rachel Korine . The film premiered in September at the 69th Venice International Film Festival , and was released the following year. The story followed four college-aged girls who decide to rob a fast food restaurant in order to pay for their spring break . It saw Gomez playing

13416-426: The controversy, the first season was a critical success. However, the other three seasons received generally negative reviews. 13 Reasons Why was the most tweeted about show of 2017, and the most-watched original streaming series of 2018. The series ended after four seasons in June 2020. Gomez recorded a cover version of the song " Only You " for the series' first season soundtrack. In May 2017, Gomez released

13572-490: The crew to the bawdy ensemble of a Federico Fellini film; Truth or Dare , in turn, fashioned itself as the La Dolce Vita of rockumentaries, chaotically freeform and in thrall to sensuality and decadence, and shot largely in limber, grainy black-and-white for maximum vérité cred." In 1994 Keshishian directed the feature film With Honors , which starred Joe Pesci , Brendan Fraser , and Patrick Dempsey . While it topped

13728-535: The customer options on how they can put their own looks together [...] I want the pieces that can be easy to dress up or down, and the fabrics being eco-friendly and organic is super important [...] Also, the tags will all have some of my inspirational quotes on them. I'm just looking to send a good message." Gomez teamed up with designers Tony Melillo and Sandra Campos for the project, both of whom had previously worked with big-name fashion houses . Melillo and Campos teamed with New York-based Adjmi Apparel to manufacture

13884-522: The directorial debut of William H. Macy . The independent film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival , and received a mixed reception from critics. At the 2014 Teen Choice Awards , Gomez was honored with the Ultimate Choice Award for her "contributions to the entertainment world". In April 2014, Gomez had fired her mother and stepfather as her managers, who had served in those roles since her career at Disney. Gomez later signed with

14040-565: The existence of the two modern versions of the same language was sanctioned even more clearly. The Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1920–1990) used Eastern Armenian as its official language, whereas the diaspora created after the Armenian genocide preserved the Western Armenian dialect. The two modern literary dialects, Western (originally associated with writers in the Ottoman Empire) and Eastern (originally associated with writers in

14196-549: The film". The film won the series its second consecutive Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program at the 62nd Primetime Emmy Awards . Gomez recorded three songs on the television series and film's soundtrack , including the single " Magic ". She later provided the voice of Princess Selenia in the English-language version of the French animated/live-action film Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard . Hoping to cross over into

14352-664: The films better lines." Gomez served as an executive producer for the Netflix docuseries Living Undocumented , released in October 2019, which follows eight undocumented families in America. The docuseries was a critical success, and was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award . In an op-ed for Time on October 1, 2019, Gomez wrote she was approached about the project in 2017 and decided to become involved after watching footage that captured "the shame, uncertainty, and fear I saw my own family struggle with. But it also captured

14508-596: The first-ever "Sears Air Band" to perform at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards . She also became the spokesperson for Borden Milk and starred in campaign's print ads and television commercials for the brand. Having previously announced plans to launch a fashion line, Gomez released the Dream Out Loud collection in 2010. It consisted of bohemian dresses, floral tops, jeans, skirts, jackets, scarves and hats, all of which were made from recycled or eco-friendly materials. Gomez stated, "With my line, I really want to give

14664-615: The following month, her collaboration titled " I Can't Get Enough " with Benny Blanco , Tainy and J Balvin , was released. Gomez appeared in Jim Jarmusch 's comedy horror The Dead Don't Die (2019). The film had its world premiere at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival , where it generated mixed reviews. That year, she starred in Woody Allen 's romantic comedy A Rainy Day in New York , with Timothée Chalamet and Elle Fanning . Due to

14820-555: The former two. "Calm Down" became the highest- and longest-charting African artist-led song on the Hot 100; the longest-running number-one of all time on the Billboard US Afrobeats Songs chart, with 58 weeks at the summit; and the longest-charting song in the top 10 and overall on the Pop Airplay chart, with 45 and 71 weeks respectively. Billboard called it " Afrobeats ' biggest crossover hit while Variety described it as

14976-404: The guitar." During a conversation with Amy Schumer for Interview Magazine , Gomez candidly opened up about the writing process for her hit song, "Lose You to Love Me." Gomez said: "I wrote it at the beginning of last year, and had just gotten out of treatment. It was a moment when I came back and I was like, "I'm ready to go into the studio with people I trust and start working on songs." There

15132-416: The hope, optimism, and patriotism so many undocumented immigrants still hold in their hearts despite the hell they go through." On October 23, 2019, Gomez released " Lose You to Love Me " as the lead single from her third studio album. The next day, she surprise-released the album's second single, " Look at Her Now ". "Lose You to Love Me" became her first number-one song in the US and Canada, and reached

15288-425: The hypothetical Mushki language may have been a (now extinct) Armenic language. W. M. Austin (1942) concluded that there was early contact between Armenian and Anatolian languages , based on what he considered common archaisms, such as the lack of a feminine gender and the absence of inherited long vowels. Unlike shared innovations (or synapomorphies ), the common retention of archaisms (or symplesiomorphy )

15444-464: The interests of the population at large were reflected in other literary works as well. Konsdantin Yerzinkatsi and several others took the unusual step of criticizing the ecclesiastic establishment and addressing the social issues of the Armenian homeland. These changes represented the nature of the literary style and syntax, but they did not constitute immense changes to the fundamentals of the grammar or

15600-485: The largest sales week for a Latin album by a woman at the time, since Shakira 's El Dorado in 2017. It also debuted atop the Billboard Top Latin Albums chart, becoming the first album by a woman to do so, also since 2017's El Dorado . The EP received universal acclaim according to Metacritic , a website collecting reviews from professional music critics; it was nominated for Best Latin Pop Album at

15756-507: The last of which is the most successful Afrobeats song. Gomez has starred in films such as Another Cinderella Story (2008), Monte Carlo (2011), Spring Breakers (2012), The Fundamentals of Caring (2016), The Dead Don't Die (2019), and Emilia Pérez (2024). She voiced Mavis in the Hotel Transylvania film franchise (2012–2022). Gomez has produced series such as 13 Reasons Why (2017–2020), Living Undocumented (2019) and Selena + Chef (2020–2023), and has played

15912-434: The late 5th to 8th centuries, and "Late Grabar" that of the period covering the 8th to 11th centuries. Later, it was used mainly in religious and specialized literature, with the exception of a revival during the early modern period, when attempts were made to establish it as the language of a literary renaissance, with neoclassical inclinations, through the creation and dissemination of literature in varied genres, especially by

16068-561: The lead role of Alex Russo . Gomez and her mother subsequently moved to Los Angeles . Wizards of Waverly Place saw Gomez playing a teenage girl in a family of wizards who own a restaurant in New York City . It quickly became a success for the Disney Channel and marked Gomez's breakthrough into the mainstream. The role brought Gomez " teen idol " status, making her one of the ten highest-paid children's TV stars of all time. The series received numerous awards and nominations, and won

16224-560: The morphology of the language. Often, when writers codify a spoken dialect, other language users are then encouraged to imitate that structure through the literary device known as parallelism . In the 19th century, the traditional Armenian homeland was once again divided. This time Eastern Armenia was conquered from Qajar Iran by the Russian Empire , while Western Armenia , containing two thirds of historical Armenia, remained under Ottoman control. The antagonistic relationship between

16380-475: The music industry, Gomez formed the pop rock band Selena Gomez & the Scene through her record deal with Hollywood Records. The name of the band is an "ironic jab" at the people who called Gomez a "wannabe scene ". The group's debut studio album, Kiss & Tell , influenced by pop rock and electronic rock , was released in September 2009. It debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200 albums chart in

16536-403: The now-anachronistic Grabar. Numerous dialects existed in the traditional Armenian regions, which, different as they were, had certain morphological and phonetic features in common. On the basis of these features two major standards emerged: Both centers vigorously pursued the promotion of Ashkharhabar. The proliferation of newspapers in both versions (Eastern & Western) and the development of

16692-526: The official status of the Armenian language. Eastern Armenian is the official variant used, making it the prestige variety while other variants have been excluded from national institutions. Indeed, Western Armenian is perceived by some as a mere dialect. Armenian was also official in the Republic of Artsakh . It is recognized as an official language of the Eurasian Economic Union although Russian

16848-619: The oldest surviving Armenian-language writing is etched in stone on Armenian temples and is called Mehenagir . The Armenian alphabet was created by Mesrop Mashtots in 405, at which time it had 36 letters. He is also credited by some with the creation of the Georgian alphabet and the Caucasian Albanian alphabet . While Armenian constitutes the sole member of the Armenian branch of the Indo-European family, Aram Kossian has suggested that

17004-617: The pair. At one point, Gomez recalls that they had to search for quarters just to get gas for their car. Her mother later recalled that the two would frequently walk to their local dollar store to buy spaghetti for dinner. Gomez has said, "I was frustrated that my parents weren't together, and never saw the light at the end of the tunnel where my mom was working hard to provide a better life for me. I'm terrified of what I would have become if I'd stayed [in Texas]." She later added that her mother "was really strong around me. Having me at 16 had to have been

17160-474: The parent languages of Greek and Armenian were dialects in immediate geographical proximity during the Proto-Indo-European period. Meillet's hypothesis became popular in the wake of his book Esquisse d'une histoire de la langue latine (1936). Georg Renatus Solta (1960) does not go as far as postulating a Proto-Graeco-Armenian stage, but he concludes that considering both the lexicon and morphology, Greek

17316-407: The path to a new and simplified grammatical structure of the language in the two different cultural spheres. Apart from several morphological, phonetic, and grammatical differences, the largely common vocabulary and generally analogous rules of grammatical fundamentals allows users of one variant to understand the other as long as they are fluent in one of the literary standards. After World War I ,

17472-552: The population. The short-lived First Republic of Armenia declared Armenian its official language. Eastern Armenian was then dominating in institutions and among the population. When Armenia was incorporated into the USSR, the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic made Eastern Armenian the language of the courts, government institutions and schools. Armenia was also russified . The current Republic of Armenia upholds

17628-534: The proceedings any vivid character, except for the few scenes that allow her to indulge her cold, sarcastic, nasty side as Cordelia". Gomez appeared in a cameo role in the film The Muppets . She also hosted in June the MuchMusic Video Awards , and in November the MTV Europe Music Awards . Gomez confirmed in January 2012 that she would be taking a break from music, placing Selena Gomez &

17784-544: The rapport between Keshishian and Madonna, led to making Truth or Dare , which became the biggest grossing documentary of its time. In an article that marked the 30th anniversary of the film's release, the Guardian reported that Keshishian was "less fascinated by Madonna’s admittedly impressive onstage show than by the freewheeling circus of her backstage life, surrounded by her self-described “family” of assistants, adjuncts and predominantly queer backup dancers...Keshishian likened

17940-436: The representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels, and other phonological and morphological peculiarities with Greek. Nevertheless, as Fortson (2004) comments, "by the time we reach our earliest Armenian records in the 5th century AD, the evidence of any such early kinship has been reduced to a few tantalizing pieces". Graeco-(Armeno)-Aryan is a hypothetical clade within the Indo-European family , ancestral to

18096-591: The same kind of magic on Madonna for Truth or Dare, " noting that My Mind & Me "looks outward, framing struggle as the human condition." Armenian language Pontic Steppe Caucasus East Asia Eastern Europe Northern Europe Pontic Steppe Northern/Eastern Steppe Europe South Asia Steppe Europe Caucasus India Indo-Aryans Iranians East Asia Europe East Asia Europe Indo-Aryan Iranian Indo-Aryan Iranian Others European Armenian

18252-483: The same month to mixed reviews. Hotel Transylvania was commercially successful, grossing US$ 358 million worldwide. In 2013, Gomez starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the action thriller film Getaway , in which she played a young hacker . The film was a critical and commercial failure, and earned Gomez a nomination for Worst Actress at the 34th Golden Raspberry Awards . Christopher Orr of The Atlantic described her as "a kid trying desperately to act like

18408-600: The same year, she was named to Forbes ' 30 Under 30 list in the music category, and again in 2020 in its "All-Star Alumni" category. Gomez and the Norwegian DJ Kygo released a single together, " It Ain't Me ", in February 2017. The collaboration reached top ten of most major music charts worldwide, including the U.S. and the U.K., and attained top five peaks in Australia, Canada, Germany and many European countries. The song received nominations at major awards around

18564-416: The screenplay for the film W.E. . In 2015 Keshishian directed the music video for Selena Gomez ' song " Hands to Myself ". Gomez, managed by Keshishian's sister Aleen, was a fan of Truth or Dare. In 2016, with the intention of making a documentary, Keshishian shot live and behind-the-scenes footage of Gomez during her Revival Tour . The documentary project was eventually shelved; Keshishian said in

18720-417: The show between 2002 and 2004; the show's producers released her as she was "too old" for the series. While working on Barney & Friends , Gomez had bit part roles in the film Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (2003) and the made-for-television film Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005). She guest starred in a 2006 episode of the Disney Channel series The Suite Life of Zack & Cody . Gomez

18876-438: The show glamorized suicide. Gomez addressed the controversy, saying that "We stayed very true to the book and that's initially what [author] Jay Asher created was a beautifully tragic, complicated yet suspenseful story and I think that's what we wanted to do. We wanted to do it justice and, yeah, [the backlash is] gonna come no matter what. It's not an easy subject to talk about, but I'm very fortunate with how it's doing. Despite

19032-463: The similarities between the two languages meant that Armenian belonged to the Iranian language family . The distinctness of Armenian was recognized when philologist Heinrich Hübschmann (1875) used the comparative method to distinguish two layers of Iranian words from the older Armenian vocabulary . He showed that Armenian often had two morphemes for one concept, that the non-Iranian components yielded

19188-419: The single " Bad Liar ", alongside a vertical music video which was available for streaming only through Spotify ; it was the first-ever music video to premiere on Spotify. The song received universal acclaim from music critics, with some deeming it Gomez's best song to date; Billboard ranked it as the best song of 2017. Rolling Stone ranked "Bad Liar" at number 39 on its 2019 list of best songs of

19344-523: The single "Baila Conmigo", she became the first female act to top the US Latin Albums and Latin Airplay charts simultaneously in over a decade. The music video for "De Una Vez" was nominated for Best Short Form Music Video at the 22nd Annual Latin Grammy Awards . Gomez performed at the 2021 UEFA Champions League final opening ceremony in May. In August, she collaborated with Colombian singer Camilo on

19500-433: The soundtrack of the animated film Tinker Bell . That same year, at age 16, Gomez signed with Hollywood Records , and formed her own production company, July Moon Production. Gomez was slated to release two films under the company. The first, titled What Boys Want , would feature Gomez as a girl who could hear the thoughts of men. She later announced a film adaptation of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why , in which she

19656-462: The standalone single " Single Soon " on August 25, 2023. It reached the top-twenty of the Billboard Global 200, and in the US and Canada. Gomez revealed in 2022 that her next album was in the works, and alluded to a potential tour. She said the record would be "really powerful, strong, very pop" with themes revolving around "freedom from relationships [and] the darkness". In January 2024,

19812-476: The start of her career and that she "did not know what she was doing". As of August 2024, Only Murders in the Building is the most-watched original comedy series on Hulu. The series has received critical acclaim throughout its four-season run, and won numerous accolades. The performances and chemistry among the main trio were praised by critics; Richard Roeper of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: "Gomez

19968-528: The teen comedy-drama This Is the Year . In August, she collaborated with South Korean girl group Blackpink for " Ice Cream ". The song peaked at number thirteen in the US, and achieved the third-highest 24-hour debut for a music video on YouTube at the time, with over 79 million views. That year, Gomez was honored by The Latin Recording Academy as one of the Leading Ladies of Entertainment . She

20124-426: The teen musical comedy film Another Cinderella Story , the second installment of the A Cinderella Story series , released on direct-to-video. This role earned her a Young Artist Award . She contributed three songs to the soundtrack , including the single " Tell Me Something I Don't Know ", which became her first entry on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart. She also recorded the song "Fly to Your Heart" for

20280-512: The terms he gives admittedly have an Akkadian or Sumerian provenance, but he suggests they were borrowed through Hurrian or Urartian. Given that these borrowings do not undergo sound changes characteristic of the development of Armenian from Proto-Indo-European , he dates their borrowing to a time before the written record but after the Proto-Armenian language stage. Contemporary linguists, such as Hrach Martirosyan , have rejected many of

20436-590: The title character's wife in the Spanish-language musical crime comedy Emilia Pérez , directed by Jacques Audiard . She took Spanish lessons for the role. The film premiered on May 18 at the 77th Cannes Film Festival , where it won the Jury Prize . Emilia Pérez received one of the longest standing ovations in the history of Cannes Film Festival . Gomez and the female ensemble of the film— Zoe Saldaña , Karla Sofía Gascón , and Adriana Paz —collectively won

20592-546: The top five of various national charts worldwide, including Australia and the UK. It was included in Billboard and Vulture 's year-end lists of best songs of 2019; the former named it as one of the "75 Best Breakup Songs of All Time". Rare was released on January 10, 2020, and debuted atop the US Billboard 200, earning 112,000 album-equivalent units in its first week. It became her third consecutive number-one album in

20748-545: The top ten on charts in Australia, Canada, the U.K, and several European countries, peaking at number twenty in the U.S. Later that year, Gomez was named Billboard ' s Woman of the Year , in recognition of her influence and commercial success. In May 2018, Gomez released the single " Back to You ", from the 13 Reasons Why Season 2 Soundtrack . It reached the top-ten in a variety of charts in European countries , top-five in Australia and Canada, and reached top-twenty in

20904-593: The top-ten in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, topped the charts in Spain and several Latin American countries , and peaked at number eleven in the U.S. The song has received numerous awards and nominations including, nominations for the two Billboard Music Awards and, but ultimately won Song of the Year at the 2019 Latin American Music Awards . From 2011 to 2018, Gomez had a streak of 16 consecutive top 40 hits on

21060-478: The tour she entered rehab to undergo chemotherapy . Gomez played Nina Pennington, an innocent straight-A student, in Behaving Badly (2014). The project, filmed prior to Gomez's stint in rehab, was released in August to a generally negative critical and commercial reception. However, critics deemed Gomez's performance superior to the film. Gomez also had a supporting role in the drama Rudderless (2014),

21216-435: The voice role of Mavis, and also served as an executive producer, for the fourth and final installment in the Hotel Transylvania franchise , Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022). The film was released on Amazon Prime Video in January to mixed reviews. Gomez was nominated as executive producer for a Children's and Family Emmy Award . She collaborated with British band Coldplay on " Let Somebody Go ", released as

21372-523: The world, including Top Dance/Electronic Song at the 2018 Billboard Music Awards , and it also her best-selling song in the UK, selling over 1.4 million chart units. Gomez served as executive producer for the series adaptation of the novel Thirteen Reasons Why . The show premiered on Netflix in March 2017. The series drew backlash from various mental health charities and suicide prevention communities over "dangerous content", with some people feeling

21528-636: Was 26, Madonna called him; she had seen Wuthering Heights on VHS and followed his career. Four hours after they spoke, Keshishian went to a rehearsal for the Blond Ambition World Tour . Initially commissioned by HBO to shoot backstage footage of Madonna at the start of the Blond Ambition tour in Japan, Keshishian filmed "everything, off and on stage." The strength of the Japanese footage, as well as

21684-523: Was a box office disappointment , and received negative reviews from critics, who called it "too long [and] lifeless." Gomez hosted and executive produced the HBO Max cooking show Selena + Chef , which features her joined by a different chef each episode; this was initially implemented remotely due to the COVID-19 pandemic . Each episode highlights a food-related charity. The show premiered in August 2020, and

21840-555: Was adopted, has Italian ancestry. Gomez's paternal grandparents emigrated to Texas from Monterrey in the 1970s. Of her heritage, Gomez has called herself "a proud third-generation American-Mexican" and once said "My family does have quinceañeras , and we go to the communion church. We do everything that's Catholic, but we don't really have anything traditional except go to the park and have barbecues on Sundays after church." Gomez's Spanish fluency waned after age seven, when she began working on television. Her parents divorced when she

21996-462: Was also named by Time as one of the 100 most influential people in the world . Gomez released her first Spanish-language project, an EP titled Revelación , in March 2021. The record blends reggaeton , Latin pop , R&B genres with urbano elements, marking a departure from the dance-pop sound of its predecessor, Rare . It debuted at number twenty-two in the US, shifting 23,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, marking

22152-470: Was also nominated for Outstanding Culinary Series. The second became Selena + Restaurant , an interactive cooking series co-hosted with Raquelle Stevens; it premiered in May 2024. Gomez served as a producer for both programs. In June 2020, Gomez featured in a remix of Trevor Daniel 's song, " Past Life ". Gomez executive produced two films that year; the romantic comedy The Broken Hearts Gallery , released in September 2020, to positive reviews, and

22308-443: Was an air around it where people were very happy, because it was like I was going to finally be me. But I didn't necessarily see it that way at the time. When I wrote the song, I was basically saying that I needed to hit rock-bottom to understand that there was this huge veil over my face." On The Kelly Clarkson Show , Selena Gomez opened up about of processing her own feelings through songwriting, calling it "the best therapy." In

22464-577: Was an international success, and reached the top-ten in the U.S., Australia, France , Spain , and topped the charts in Italy ; and was certified 5× platinum by the RIAA. The music video became the most-viewed music video published in 2016 on YouTube , with over 3 billion views. Gomez had a supporting role in In Dubious Battle (2016) starring and directed by James Franco . The film had its world premiere at

22620-670: Was born in Beirut to Cecile Keshishian (née Simonian), and Kevork Keshishian, a pediatrician. The family immigrated to the United States in 1969. They lived briefly in Brookline, Massachusetts, and then moved to Manchester, New Hampshire . Immersed in the Armenian community, the Keshishians often housed Armenian refugees, and Keshishian and his younger sister, Aleen, grew up speaking English and Armenian. Both siblings acted as children and toured with

22776-630: Was featured on the remix of Nigerian artist Rema 's song, " Calm Down ". An international success, it peaked at number three on the Billboard Global 200 . The single became Gomez's ninth top-ten in the US, peaking at number three; and her second number-one in Canada, spending nine weeks atop the Canadian Hot 100. It topped the Global Excl. US, Pop Airplay, and Radio Songs charts for 2, 5, and 10 weeks, respectively, becoming Gomez's first leader on

22932-499: Was five years old, and she remained with her mother. Gomez has two younger half-sisters and a younger stepbrother: Gracie Elliot Teefey, through Mandy and her second husband, Brian Teefey, and Victoria "Tori" and Marcus Gomez, through Ricardo and his second wife, Sara. She earned her high-school diploma through homeschooling in May 2010. Gomez was born when her mother was 16 years old. The family had financial troubles throughout Gomez's childhood, her mother struggling to provide for

23088-437: Was given a recurring role on the Disney Channel series Hannah Montana in 2007 as pop star Mikayla. During this time, Gomez filmed pilot episodes for two potential Disney Channel series; the first was a Suite Life spin-off titled Arwin! , and the second was a Lizzie McGuire spin-off titled What's Stevie Thinking? . She later auditioned for a role in the network's series Wizards of Waverly Place , ultimately winning

23244-403: Was mainly inspired by Aguilera's album Stripped (2002), as well as Janet Jackson and Spears. In regard to Selena Gomez's writing craft, co-writer Ali Tamposi revealed the following to Elle : "We actually started writing another song together while we were in the studio with Andrew Watt and I was really impressed by her collaboration, her ideas, how open she was and willing to tap into

23400-613: Was met with a positive critical reception upon release; the documentary was praised for mental health transparency. Chris Azzopardi from The New York Times described it as an "honest portrait study of stardom and mental illness". The film was nominated for Outstanding Writing for a Nonfiction Programming at the Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards , and received the Seal of Female Empowerment in Entertainment honor by

23556-418: Was noticeably absent from social media . At that time, she was the most followed person on Instagram , and became the first person to reach 100 million followers on the platform. In February 2023, she regained her status as the most-followed woman on the platform , and became the first woman to reach 400 million followers the following month. Gomez made her first public appearance since entering rehab at

23712-503: Was released on October 17 on Max . She guest-starred and reprised her role as Alex Russo in the pilot of Wizards Beyond Waverly Place , the spin-off and sequel to Wizards of Waverly Place . The series, which she also executive produced, premiered on Disney Channel and Disney+ on October 29, 2024. Gomez is described as a pop artist. Her work is primarily characterized as dance-pop and EDM ; however, she has experimented with different music genres. Her debut album with

23868-405: Was situated between Proto-Greek ( centum subgroup) and Proto-Indo-Iranian ( satem subgroup). Ronald I. Kim has noted unique morphological developments connecting Armenian to Balto-Slavic languages . The Armenian language has a long literary history, with a 5th-century Bible translation as its oldest surviving text. Another text translated into Armenian early on, and also in the 5th-century,

24024-666: Was the Armenian Alexander Romance . The vocabulary of the language has historically been influenced by Western Middle Iranian languages , particularly Parthian ; its derivational morphology and syntax were also affected by language contact with Parthian, but to a lesser extent. Contact with Greek, Persian , and Syriac also resulted in a number of loanwords. There are two standardized modern literary forms, Eastern Armenian (spoken mainly in Armenia) and Western Armenian (spoken originally mainly in modern-day Turkey and, since

24180-419: Was to play a young girl who commits suicide; ultimately, neither film was made, but later, Gomez will produce a television adaptation of this novel. Gomez continued to enjoy mainstream success throughout the following year, appearing as Alex Russo in a crossover episode of the Disney Channel series The Suite Life on Deck in 2009. She later made a guest appearance on the Disney Channel series Sonny with

24336-494: Was well received by critics. It ran for four seasons till September 2022, and was nominated for Outstanding Culinary Series at the 50th Daytime Emmy Awards . Gomez won a Critics' Choice Real TV Award for her work on the program. In May 2023, Food Network ordered two projects to be hosted by Gomez. The first was Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays (2023), a four-part holiday special and extension of Selena + Chef , which

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