Mere Duchess

When You Get All You Wanted in your Wildest Dreams

Girl crush of the moment: Selena Gomez of Disney Channel’s “Wizards of Waverly Place.” First of all, according to her wiki, girl is named after slain Tejano singer Selena (RIP), so need I go on about what she has to recommend her? How do you get a credential more sterling than that? I was compelled to learn more about her after witnessing her fabulous hair and witty Bacall-like swagger on WWP, only to discover that this girl is it-girl of teenybopper Edie proportions (OK not quite but). Her band is called “Selena Gomez and the Scene” which is like take one part “Jem and the Holograms,” add a dash of Selena Quintanilla Perez, make it sound a little New Wave, a little like “the Max” from Saved by the Bell and you get, um, the answer to my prayers.

And then it’s like, all right guess I’m old, but I find out that she’s in fact the girl who stole Justin Bieber’s heart?  And this is after a stint with Taylor Lautner?  Now, I’ve personally never been one for Tiger Beat heart throb types (NKOTB/JTT etc fever left me cold in my prepubescent dreamboat-dreaming days) but jesu christo, Selena Gomez, you have to give it up for the girl, I mean she’s achieved what generations of sixth grade girls couldn’t dare to dream—nabbing the Cutest Boy in School times 27 billion. How very chic for these times, how very alpha.

I don’t know, here’s to hoping things don’t go in a Lindz/Britney direction for this showstopper, but for now, in this moment, I choose to celebrate Selena Gomez, because today is her day.  Also, this website is probably the best thing on the internet.