Selena Gomez taking a break from music to focus on acting

April Chieffo

Selena Gomez is working on two films this year

Selena Gomez at the MTV Europe Music Awards. (Belfast, Ireland)

Fans are going to have to wait a while to hear new music from Selena Gomez and The Scene. The 19-year-old, who released her third studio album, When the Sun Goes Down, last fall, will put the breaks on music this year to focus on two big films that shes a part of.

"We're going to take a break from music," Gomez told E! News according to MTV News. "My band and I are going to chill on that for a second. I'll be doing two films in the beginning of [2012], which I'm excited about. They are both different and things I've never played before and will be fun for me."

One of those films is Harmony Korines Spring Breakers, which Gomez says is a departure from roles she usually plays.

"It's a different character than I have ever played before," Gomez told MTV News. "It's a different kind of vibe, I think, than people are used to seeing me in. What you're going to see is more raw, I think. It's going to be raw and more about acting."

Although shes taking a break from music, Gomez said in a recent interview with Starpulse that shes nothing but grateful to have success in music and acting, even though she had doubts about her music success.

Im very blessed. I love what I do. I love it. Especially music, it was something I was passionate about but I did not expect it to take off as well as it did so I am very thankful for that as well, she said. Doing both has been good for me, I like it.

She said the best reward is watching her fans sing her songs.

It is really cool to see on YouTube a bunch of my fans covering my songs because you get to see in their eyes how they interpret! what I sing, what my lyrics mean and what that means for them, she continued. So it is really special.