Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco first collaborated on a song together in 2015. Nine years later, they are engaged.
The news comes a year and a half after Gomez and Blanco began dating and a year after they went public as a couple. The newly-engaged musicians have shared a lot of digital PDA since telling fans they were romantically involved.
Here’s a detailed timeline of their relationship.
Blanco has built a reputation as a sought-after pop producer, helping to create mega-hits like Kesha’s 2009 breakthrough “Tik Tok” and Katy Perry’s “Teenage Dream” in 2010.
In 2015, he was credited on two songs in Gomez’s second solo album “Revival.” The songs, “Same Old Love” and “Kill Em With Kindness,” were both released as singles.
Gomez and Blanco are credited as cowriters on “Kill Em With Kindness,” which she has described as “lyrically my favorite song” from “Revival.”
At the time of the album’s release, Gomez was still heavily associated with her …