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It’s sultry in the way certain evenings are sultry, when someone you’ve sat across from a hundred times suddenly looks different in the late June light, like maybe you’ve both finally noticed.

And like water, she sees herself as able to flow, changing form without losing her core alchemy — equally comfortable spitting fire rap verses as delivering sultry R&B riffs.

A cut from her upcoming EP, due in April, “The Betrayal” is a sultry baile funk song that simmers with righteous indignation.

The lyrics are sultry and full of innuendo, with Gomez singing about "holding you naked" in central Los Angeles.

Currently on tour in Australia, he's been loosening up, gently leaning into the softer image he's spent recent years trying to toughen, even performing an intimate karaoke bar set of early sultry hits.