Selena Gomez Brings Taste Of The World To MTV Movie Awards: Watch!

We've seen Selena Gomez as a teen wizard, a spring breaking college student, a tabloid fixture and, until very recently, one half of a famous pop culture couple. But finally, at the 2013 MTV Movie Awards, we saw Selena take the stage for her performance of "Come & Get It" and prove her prowess as a triple threat and maturing musician.

Wild-haired, barefoot, and adorned in a dupatta, tunic, and bindi, Gomez was flanked by a harem of dancers. She summoned bhangra beats, Bollywood, Thai dancing and "Arabian Nights" in a performance that borrowed from and mashed up several ethnicities and seemed to salute several Eastern members of the United Nations all at once.

Selena's new single is a confident mantra, and her "Come & Get It" Movie Awards performance saw the singer making good use of her husky alto while tackling complex Bollywood-inspired choreography for a more mature moment that saw Selena as less Disney school girl and more tempting seductress. Her "Come & Get It" performance marked the she sang and dance simultaneously. And though during rehearsals, she told MTV News that she was nervous to perform the song live, her louche, alluring performance expertly belied any anxiety.

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Much like Britney Spears, Selena seems to be in the In the Zone phase of h! er musical career, experimenting with world music and with taking confident control of her sexuality and maturity. Her sultry, slinky, earthy and ethereal Movie Awards performance cast her in a mature new light that felt like a hat tip to Spears' iconic "Slave 4 U" performance at the 2001 VMAs (and, more recently to Rihanna's "Cockiness/ We Found Love" performance at the 2012 VMAs).

Gomez most overtly referenced Indian culture, striking silhouettes that conjured images of the Indian goddess Kali, often associated with empowerment an apt reference for a singer (and actress, and now dancer) who proved at the Movie Awards that she's completely comfortable both on stage and in her own skin, more at ease, and more empowered than ever.

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