Bad Liar (Selena Gomez song)

"Bad Liar"
A portrait of Gomez laying on a batch of rocks in a periwinkle babydoll dress embroidered with flowers and butterflies. The song's title is written in red lipstick on her one thigh.
Single by Selena Gomez
ReleasedMay 18, 2017 (2017-05-18)
StudioInterscope (Santa Monica, California)
Genre
Length3:34
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Ian Kirkpatrick
Selena Gomez singles chronology
"It Ain't Me"
(2017) 		"Bad Liar"
(2017) 		"Fetish"
(2017)
Music video
"Bad Liar" on YouTube

"Bad Liar" is a song by American singer Selena Gomez, released on May 18, 2017 by Interscope Records. it appears as an international bonus track on Gomez's third studio album, Rare (2020). The track was written by Gomez, Justin Tranter, Julia Michaels, and its producer Ian Kirkpatrick. The song interpolates the bassline from Talking Heads' 1977 single "Psycho Killer", written by David Byrne, Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth. A vertical music video accompanied the release, becoming the first music video to premiere on Spotify, where it was made available exclusively. The official music video directed by Jesse Peretz, was released on June 14, 2017 on Gomez's Vevo channel on YouTube, in which she portrays four characters.

"Bad Liar" received universal acclaim from music critics; Billboard ranked it as the best song of 2017.[1] Critics noted the mid-tempo production for its non-traditional structure in Gomez's catalog.[2] David Byrne, Talking Heads' lead singer, also complimented the song.[3] Commercially, the song reached the top 10 in Lebanon and Mexico, the top 20 in Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Malaysia, New Zealand, Slovakia, and the United States; and the top 40 in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. In 2019, Rolling Stone ranked "Bad Liar" at number 39 on its list of best songs of the 2010s.[4]

  1. ^ Billboard Staff (December 13, 2017). "Billboard's 100 Best Songs of 2017: Critics' Picks". Billboard. Archived from the original on December 13, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2017.
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  3. ^ "David Byrne responds to Selena Gomez sampling Talking Heads on 'Bad Liar'". NME. May 18, 2017. Archived from the original on August 9, 2020. Retrieved April 21, 2020.
  4. ^ "100 Best Songs of the 2010s". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on December 4, 2019. Retrieved December 4, 2019.