2015Released
3:41

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This sultry jam embodies Selena Gomez' journey of discovery as she turns into a young woman. Speaking during an interview with Elvis Duran on Z100's morning show she said: "I think that this song represents the confidence that I truly have inside of me, and I think it's the vulnerable side that I've expressed, but it's also the combination of just feeling myself."

The song finds Selena Gomez teaming up with songwriter Julia Michaels (who wrote Fifth Harmony's "Miss Movin' On" and Kelly Clarkson's "War Paint") plus Semi Precious Weapons frontman Justin Tranter. Michaels and Tranter also worked on "Sorry" for Selena's ex, Justin Bieber. "'Good For You' is actually one of the first songs I recorded for the record," Gomez said. "It was stunning - it was a piece that was just everything I feel a woman should embody, but not in the obvious way. I vibed with it. The track only took about 45 minutes because I just did it all the way through. I didn't want to stop in between. I wanted to feel the whole song as a whole, and they were there, and it was just a beautiful start to the album."

This features a guest appearance from A$AP Rocky late on in the song, marking the first time that Gomez has worked with a rapper on one of her tracks. Rocky's innuendo-laced rhymes find him affirming the former Disney star's intentions to please her lover. Gomez told Elvis Duran that putting a feature artist collaboration on the track was an organic process: "When I recorded the song, there was no feature. I don't even think there was a plan for a feature," she said. "I recorded the track, I responded to it so much that I had the entire team who wrote the song come to Mexico and finish the album with me because it was the perfect way and the perfect tone that's set for this next chapter for me. And then once it was done, I could not help but want somebody on it. And I'm obsessed with A$SAP Rocky's new album. So I slipped it to him and next thing you know he responded really well."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Good For You.
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MinorMode
4/4Time Signature
89BPM

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Selena Gomez PS
© 2015 Interscope Records
℗ 2015 Interscope Records

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