Songstress Selena Gomez dropped her music video for 'The Heart Wants What It Wants' earlier today and has opened up about filming the emotional promo clip in a new interview with Ryan Seacrest. 

Talking to KIIS-FM this afternoon (November 6), the beauty explained that she really let her feelings surface while shooting the video:

"They taped the mic underneath the table when I was shooting the video. And I had shot the video over a year ago. So, in that state -- where I was in that place emotionally -- I went in and I went into the room by myself, and I looked at the actual mirror in the music video, and I had a conversation [with] myself to every question I had in my mind in that moment: ‘Wow, this feeling changes everything and you can’t help it'."

The superstar went onto add that she really struggled with a sense of identity this year and it was hard to accept the fact that she "made some decisions that weren't great", but she feels better for having confronted her issues:

"Everybody wants to form their own opinions anyway. I think the biggest problem I had this year -- even with [Justin] and on his side -- is identity. I was trying to figure out what I’m doing, and that was the first time I was constantly being kicked down for doing that."

"When I didn’t know, I just wanted to say, ‘This is what I want, this is where I am in my professional life, things changed in my personal life, things changed in my heart -- everything.’ And people just thought, ‘Alright, this is what we think.’ And yeah, I made some decisions that weren’t great as well, and so did he and that’s why we went through all that to only make us better. And he has heard [the song] and he has seen the video, and it’s something that I feel like girls need hear, and it’s something I’m willing to share with people."

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