Selena Gomezis commemorating the release of her new album in a not-so-rareway!
The singer, 27, shared a photo and video on Instagram showing off a brand new addition to her tattoo collection — a tiny neck tattoo featuring the title of her third solo album,Rare,written in cursive script.
“Did it again@bangbangnyc? rare,” she captioned theInstagrampost on Wednesday.
New York City-basedBang Bang Tattoo shop— the artists responsible for creating Gomez’sprayer hands upper-thigh tattoo back in November— commented, “❤️❤️❤️ You’re the best” under her post.
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The album, which includes her first Billboard No. 1 song“Lose You to Love Me”, marks a new beginning for the pop star, who appears to be shedding her past with upbeat breakup and self-love anthems.
“Every song on the record has some sort of emotion or conflict or there’s something going on,” she told PEOPLE exclusively before the album dropped. “I related to everything on this record very, very clearly.”
On Friday, Gomez also dropped the music video for her album title track. In the lush, nature-themed clip, shedebuted another meaningful tattoowhile dancing through a whimsical garden filled with butterflies and colorful plants.
Near the beginning of the video, Gomez raises her arms above her head, showing off the new tattoo on the back of her right arm. Though the tattoo isn’t fully visible, Gomez has previously said that it features the date of her2017 kidney transplant.
The singer gave another look at the tattoo in an Instagram post of photos from the “Rare” music video shoot. A number “6” is visible on her arm in one of the photos, possibly indicating that the transplant occurred in June 2017, though the star has never confirmed the exact date.
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Gomez first talked about her new arm tattoo in aninterview with Capital FM in December.
“I actually got the date of when I got my kidney transplant,” she said, gesturing towards her right arm. “And I did that with the girl that gave me her kidney.”
In September 2017, the “Lose You to Love Me” singer revealed that she had received a kidney transplant from her friend Francia Raísa after being open about herbattle with lupusfor several years.
source: people.com
