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The Beat Goes On: Are Singer Selena Gomez and Producer Benny Blanco The New, Improved Sonny and Cher?

By Roger Friedman

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When actress singer Selena Gomez and record producer Benny Blanco first got together, it seemed sweet.

Maybe she’d found someone with a big career independent of hers. A happy ending beamed in distance.

But now they’ve gone so public, it’s out of control. They’ve actually turned into a modern Sonny and Cher.

He’s the straight man, she wisecracks.

She has the solid acting career in addition to making records.


And they’ve started making records together. They’ve got a second single coming on Thursday night, and an album in two weeks!

They’ve got a marketing plan on social media! See below.

What’s next? A summer variety show? Benny as the killer on “Only Murders in the Building”? They could be the new Camilla and Shawn!

(They’re nice people, but this does have a weird vibe.)

And the beat goes on.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedmanhttps://www.showbiz411.com
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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