This double-billed couple’s album is more interested in throwing you off the lovers’ trail than letting you in. Photo: Selena Gomez via YouTube Selena Gomez approaches pop with patience. Navigating an itinerary of performances, appearances, and expectations is not something she takes lightly after a lupus diagnosis and 2016 health scare that led to a kidney transplant. I Said I Love You First , her new album with fiancé, Benny Blanco, arrives five years after Gomez’s previous full-length, 2020’