Claim: Selena Gomez is a pop singer.

`` Hands to Myself '' is a song by American singer Selena Gomez from her second studio album , Revival -LRB- 2015 -RRB- . The track was written by Gomez , Justin Tranter , Julia Michaels , and its producers Mattman & Robin and Max Martin . It was inspired to add fresh , female perspective to the album and was influenced by the music of Prince . `` Hands to Myself '' is a dance-pop and synthpop song , backed by lightly clicking percussion , hand claps , a dark guitar riff and `` tribal pop '' synths . Gomez uses both her higher vocal register for belting , as well as her lower range breathy vocals in an octave just above a whisper . She clips her enunciation of the lyrics which detail a come-hither .   `` Hands to Myself '' was serviced to contemporary hit radio in the US on January 26 , 2016 , as the third single from Revival . Music critics were complimentary about Gomez 's versatile vocal performance and the track 's uncharacteristic production and lyrics . Commercially , `` Hands to Myself '' reached number seven on the US Billboard Hot 100 , becoming her fourth straight top ten hit in the U.S. and third from Revival , and the top 10 in Canada , New Zealand and Slovakia . It also managed to reach the top 20 in Australia and the United Kingdom .   An accompanying music video directed by Alek Keshishian was premiered as an Apple Music exclusive on December 21 , 2015 . The video depicts a film of Gomez dressed in lingerie playing a stalker of a Hollywood actor . Critics commended the video 's cinematography and Gomez 's appearance , hailing it as her sexiest and most revealing visual yet . Gomez promoted `` Hands to Myself '' with a televised performances on the 2015 Victoria 's Secret Fashion Show and Saturday Night Live . The song has also been lip-synced to by the Victoria 's Secret Angels in a promotional video , and used in Beats Electronics ' commercial for their Beats Pill portable speaker . In 2016 , the song was used in a television commercial for Pantene . The song was also featured on the pilot episode of 2016 TV show This Is Us.cn | date = March 2017 | Selena Gomez