Selena Gomez covers the July issue of Elle and looks absolutely gorgeous in this Dolce & Gabbana corset dress. Honestly, this is the most grown up I’ve ever seen 19-year-old Selena look, and it’s a “mature” type of grown up rather than a “trashy” one, which is the vibe she’s (unfortunately) chosen to given out by appearing in the upcoming Harmony Korine movie. I mean, I get that she wants to shake her good girl image, but honestly, Spring Breakers is not the way to do it. Case in point — Selena’s butt in a bikini is perhaps the most wholesome butt that I’ve ever seen on a person. So if Selena wants to be perceived as more mature as she grows out of Disney, then she shouldn’t go for trashy, shock value movie roles but glamourous photoshoots like her recent Forbes shoot. Obviously, she also should do more stuff like this Elle shoot, which finally makes her look like a young woman instead of a bikini bandit. Here are some excerpts from the interview:

On Justin Bieber renting out the Staples Center to watch a movie: “He really is a hopeless romantic. I had just mentioned it in the car – all I said is that I really want to see Titanic again, and then…”

On growing up in poverty: “I can remember about seven times when our car got stuck on the highway because we’d run out of gas money… [but my mom still] saved up to take me to concerts. She took me to museums, aquariums, to teach me about the world, about what’s real.”

On working for Disney: “[It] is a machine, so people automatically assume that you can’t work for the channel unless you act and sing and dance and sign up for all that. That’s absolutely not true. I always did everything the way I wanted to do it.”

On selecting roles: “I get offered the teenybopper movies, and I’ve done that. I haven’t done a mega-hundred-billion-dollar Transformers movie, but that’s not what I want to do either.”

[From Elle]

Selena seems to be under the impression that having a ton of money and the ability to snap one’s fingers and rent out the Staples Center equates to being a “hopeless romantic.” Sure, Justin might have thought of the idea himself, but there are plenty of ways to be romantic without blowing a crapload of money. Like having a nice, impromptu picnic lunch on a beach perhaps, but Justin would probably charter a copter and fly Selena out to Catalina Island where he’d present a chef who’d whip up their lunches on the beach. Just saying.

Photos courtesy of Elle and The Fashion Spot