A new era of Selena Gomez music is officially upon us as the multi-hyphenate is teaming up with her fiancé, Benny Blanco, on their upcoming joint album I Said I Love You First. If that wasn’t enough to get you pumped, the couple enlisted Cosmo cover girl Gracie Abrams for their pop dreamscape, “Call Me When You Break Up.”

Before it officially dropped on February 20, the song was teased across social media since Benny posted a clip of Selena and Gracie to his Instagram Stories on February 17. Selena previewed the track at a Rare Beauty event in London—per her TikTok and this fan-posted clip—while Gracie performed an acoustic rendition of it during her soundcheck in Hamburg. Ofc, Sel also posted snippets all over her socials.

While the song sounds like sunshine, its lyrical content actually gets into the emotional ambivalence of being down bad for someone who’s currently in a relationship. That being said! It’s time to dive into the meaning of Selena Gomez and Gracie Abrams’s “Call Me When You Break Up” lyrics so we can obsess over it for the foreseeable future.

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[Verse 1: Selena Gomez]
Call me when you break up
I wanna be the first one on your mind when you wake up
I miss the way we’d stay up
We talk about forever when I’m takin’ off my makeup
Call me when you break up
And meet before I turn up like I like the space we take up
And I can forget what their name was
And when you're feeling down, I can show you what you're made of

While previewing the song to fans, Selena cleared up any speculation they might have upon their first listen, saying, “To get an obvious statement out of the way, this song is actually about a best friend that I have in my life. So it’s not about about anything if you think it is.” TL;DR: She just made a fun song and she’s not with the drama!

The first verse be seen through the lens of a best friend as Sel suggests: Nothing is more healing than coming together with your friends in the wake of heartbreak.

[Chorus: Selena Gomez]
Call mе when you break up
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh
Call me whеn you break up
Ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh-ooh, ooh, ooh

[Post-Chorus: Selena Gomez and Gracie Abrams]

I’ll make it worth it, I’ll make it worth it
I’ll make it worth it, I’ll make it worth it
I’ll make it worth it, I’ll make it worth it (Oh-oh)
I’ll make it worth it
Call me when you break up

Ah, yes, the pain of waiting for someone to ditch their current spouse so you can swoop in and be next in line. Dare I say this feels like some sort of canon event when it comes to dating...? Why must we do this to ourselves?

[Verse 2: Gracie Abrams]
I’m battling the lack of us, I look for medication
Tried every obvious replacement
In bars and strangers’ beds until my faith was in the basement
Won’t you call me when you break up?
I feel so out of luck
I’m skipping cracks along the pavement
Like I’m emotionally bankrupt
We’re so meant for each other, I mean, God, when will you wake up, wake up?

On the flip side, Gracie’s verse sees the story from the POV of someone who’s down bad. She looks for distractions in other people during nights out, but doesn’t find it makes her feel much better. In true situationship fashion, she pleads with her subject to “wake up” and be with her.