It’s a huge New Music Friday for the Gen Zers who grew up on Disney Channel (AKA me): Both Selena Gomez and Miley Cyrus dropped new songs on Aug. 25, with “Single Soon” and “Used To Be Young,” respectively. Both songs are bops and fans want to see these two queens meet at the top of the Billboard charts, especially since they’re friends IRL, but as they listened to them back-to-back, memes about the difference in both songs’ sounds immediately started spreading on social media.
Gomez’s “Single Soon” is a fun mid-tempo pop anthem, where she sings about dumping a guy and enjoying the single life after he’s gone. Cyrus’ “Used to Be Young,” meanwhile, is a reflection on her past fame and how she’s putting her past “wild” days behind her. When both songs were announced, Cyrus and Gomez were quick to promote each other’s new tracks on social media, with Gomez adding that she was “excited” for the release of both songs. (FWIW, Nickelodeon veteran Ariana Grande also dropped new music on the same day, with her deluxe digital release of the Yours Truly 10th Anniversary Album. I wasn’t lying when I said it was a huge New Music Friday!)
Immediately after both songs went out into the world, fans were quick to share their reactions — and rather than pitting two women against each other, which is never the move, they started joking about switching back and forth between both songs, which inspire very different emotions.
Seriously, they couldn’t be more different.
Some fans couldn’t help but throw it back to their Disney Channel days.
Even Grande was included in some of the jokes. Everybody knows the three emotions, after all: twerking, depression, and nostalgia.
And even though the songs sound so different, some fans couldn’t help but notice parallels in the lyrics.
More to come…