I kind of wish Selena didn't delay SG3's rollout past 2023 since she mentioned last year in an interview that she did plan on releasing the album in 2023. The end of 2023 was the perfect time to start the era. Emilia Perez finished filming at the end of June so she was pretty much free for the second half of the year. The only other thing she needed to film with Selena + Chef, but that doesn't take long to film. An album rollout only needs 5 months at most starting from the lead single to the album release, so she had the perfect amount of time to do that.
Even though the album is either 90% complete by now or even 100% complete, I can understand why she'd want to delay it to 2025 since 2024 is a busy year for her. The writers strike affected OMITB so filming is probably delayed to Spring, and then Emilia Perez will have its premiere at the Cannes in May and the official release sometime before 2024 ends. Plus, she's filming the Wizards pilot right now and will likely have to film it again if Disney picks it up. On top of that, she has to separately do the promo for all of those things too.
But the biggest problem with 2025 is that she might be equally as busy. OMITB is definitely getting a Season 5 so she'll have to film that, and there's a chance the Linda Ronstadt biopic will start filming, alongside other projects since we still don't have official confirmation on whether Spiral and Dollhouse got canceled, and whether she's still going to star in the Silvia Vasquez biopic project. Plus, Wizards and Selena + Chef alongside other unannounced projects will just be a lot.
2023 was the perfect time to release the album, and it's unfortunate because I genuinely feel like she wanted to go all-out with this era. Now, she's not going to be able to start the rollout without any of her acting projects interfering because she waited too long.
She BETTER be on Camila's album at the very least if she delayed her album, and she better go back to releasing GOOD droplets if she's not going to start her album rollout anytime soon. There's no sad songs on SG3 so might as well release Stained as a droplet if she wants to release old scraps as singles. Unlike Single Soon, Stained would actually have potential.