--- title: Hear Selena Gomez's Moody New Song with Kygo, 'It Ain't Me' description: The pop singer and social media darling is back with a new song, featuring her vocals on a track by electronic producer Kygo. canonical: https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-02-16T19:47:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:41:12.012Z og:title: Hear Selena Gomez and Kygo's New Breakup Song, 'It Ain't Me' og:description: The pop star reflects on a relationship gone awry og:url: https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hear Selena Gomez and Kygo's New Breakup Song, 'It Ain't Me' twitter:description: The pop star reflects on a relationship gone awry twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Listen to Selena Gomez and Kygo's New Breakup Song, 'It Ain't Me' > Sponsored content. 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Gomez seems to be reflecting on a relationship gone awry; lately, she’s been spotted out and about with fellow singer The Weeknd, while [her ex Justin Bieber](http://time.com/4452301/selena-gomez-justin-bieber-instagram-sofia-richie/?iid=sr-link1) has been [throwing shade their way](http://people.com/music/justin-bieber-calls-the-weeknd-whack/) in his own social media posts. “I had a dream we were back to seventeen, summer nights and the liberties, never growing up,” she sings. “I’ll take with me the polaroids and the memories, but you know I’m going to leave behind the worst of us.” Listen to the full song above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/"},"headline":"Listen to Selena Gomez and Kygo's New Breakup Song, 'It Ain't Me'","datePublished":"2017-02-16T19:47:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:41:12.012Z","description":"The pop star reflects on a relationship gone awry in the new tune","url":"https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4673694/selena-gomez-kygo-it-aint-me/","name":"Listen to Selena Gomez and Kygo's New Breakup Song, 'It Ain't Me'"}}]}] ```