Why Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco’s Love Story Sounds Like a Love Song

Selena Gomez I didn’t have to run through the woods to get to you, Benny Blanco.

Because as it turns out, the Wolves singer and the music producer — who collaborated on hits like “Single Soon” and “I Can’t Get Enough” — actually first met each other more than a decade before they started dating.

“We met about 16 or 17 years ago,” Penny revealed in an April interview with SiriusXM Hits 1. “We obviously made a bunch of songs together. But before we made any music together, I was one of her big meetings — right around the time she was leaving Disney to make her own music. Neither of us remembers the meeting, but her mom does.”

Even after they reconnected years later, Benny never expected their relationship to turn from platonic to romantic.

“It was so crazy,” he said a month later. the Howard Stern Show“When we went on our first date, I didn’t even know it was a date.”