Boyfriend

Selena Gomez wrote this song about her dating struggles, co-penning it with Julia Michaels and Justin Tranter. The same pair also co-penned her hit Rare single "Lose You to Love Me."

The song is about Gomez's elusive search for a beau who will truly love her and won't let her down. I want a boyfriend Tell me, are there any good ones left? I keep finding wrong ones, but I want love again and again Said Gomez: "It's a lighthearted song about falling down and getting back up time and time again in love, but also knowing that you don't need anyone other than yourself to be happy."

Gomez revealed to Zane Lowe that the idea for the song came from a text sent by her to Trantner and Michaels about their upcoming songwriting session. "I said, 'Well, it's like I feel like I've covered everything on the album. I was like, I don't know. Life's good. I want a boyfriend. That's about it.'" By the time she'd got to the studio, her two co-writers had already titled the song "Boyfriend." And because Gomez had said "I want," not "need," their concept was that a girl can want a boyfriend, but no one needs one.