Selena Gomez - For You [2LP Pink & Black Ice]

Selena Gomez closed her Hollywood Records chapter with For You, a 2014 hits collection that plays like a scrapbook of growing up in public. This edition spreads it across two LPs of pink and black ice vinyl.

Released as her first greatest hits album and her final record for the label, it gathers her solo singles alongside songs cut with Selena Gomez & the Scene, the band that carried her from Disney fame to pop radio. The sequencing ignores chronology, so the bright dance-pop of the early years sits beside the moodier sound she was chasing by 2014.

The new single that led the set, The Heart Wants What It Wants, showed where she was heading: sparse, confessional and far more grown-up than anything before it. From there the record moves through the Bollywood-tinged bounce of Come & Get It and the glittering synths of Love You Like A Love Song. Fresh versions add flavour too, including a Spanish-language take on an early favourite and a reworked Bidi Bidi Bom Bom sung alongside the late Selena Quintanilla.

Taken together, it maps the leap from teen idol to an artist steering her own story, and it shows how strong her run of singles was. For fans who grew up with these songs, pink and black wax feels just right.