Selena Gomez beams in sweet throwback Instagram photo as fans ask if she's teasing new lyrics

The star's followers are convinced that new music is on the horizon
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Selena Gomez shared a smiling childhood photo of herself on Instagram with a cryptic caption.

The singer, 27, posted a throwback picture showing her as a young girl, posing in front of a traditional school portrait-style backdrop.

She captioned it: “We always go into it blindly.”

The star’s followers described the sweet snap as “so precious” and “the cutest,” with others claiming she hasn’t “changed a bit.”

Some fans also began to speculate that her mysterious caption could be a lyric from a forthcoming single, as Gomez has previously teased lines from new releases in Instagram posts.

“We always go into it blindly (is it a lyric from your new single?)” one fan asked on Instagram, while another Twitter user wrote: “#SG2 is coming!!! The caption lyrics from a song!!!! SHE’S TEASING.”

A third fan noted on Twitter: “Compared to all her recent posts, this one stands out the most!!! It’s so random and even the caption is different than her other recent posts!! YUP YUPPPP #SG2 LEAD IS DEFINITELY COMING.”

Despite being her third studio album, Gomez previously referred to the record in a tweet as “album #2” and “#SG2” as it will be her second release with Interscope, and fans have since adopted the title as a shorthand.

The musician told Jimmy Fallon back in June that she had completed work on her new record.

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“I’m actually done,” she told the talk show host, revealing that it took “four years” for her to reach “a good place with this album.”

“It’s just because I had such huge moments that happened in my life personally that [I thought] ‘How was I going to capture this?’ and ‘How was I actually going to feel good about what I was saying?’” she said.

“So I just kept going, and I’m relieved.”

Speaking to Elle in September, she teased a new track called Flawless which is about the singer “encouraging a younger version of [herself].”

“Even when you’re imperfect, even when you’re feeling worthless, you are flawless,” she explained to the magazine. “It’s a song I’m going to sing for the rest of my life.”

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