"Sorry" writer called Selena Gomez before song was released

written with Justin Bieber Selena Gomez during a very difficult time for them and you're almost writing to each of them the with with Justin I've never met Justin Bieber um just knew that the session was for him specifically and just knew like writing a what What's happen because sometimes you can use what's happening in pop culture um to affect a song so obviously what we're talking about in sorry everyone's experience that moment where you're like okay wait I actually need to apologize whether it's to my family whether it's to my girlfriend to my boyfriend I

need to apologize and so that's a very Universal feeling but also being aware of the fact of what pop culture was viewing him as in that moment and I knew a an apology would would be good and I wrote it with my friend Julia Michaels who I do a lot of my stuff with and was Selena she you know who I do know very well and have we are close friends and obviously close collaborators she is just I think the best curator in the business right now she knows exactly what she wants musically lyrically sonically

everything she is so smart about it and she's so um open about her feelings whether it's relationships or whether it's partying like whatever it is she want she's so open about it so when you're writing with her it does become very very easy so so there was no awkward moment there with with working on on both no not at all when we knew sorry was happening and when it was official and Justin cut it like you know we called her and just said just so you know the song's coming out cuz it is a these

are real people's lives this is real life and you have to you have to be real with your friends