Selena Gomez has turned a Disney day into both a family outing and a music video. Her visits to Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure include spinning teacups, a race through Radiator Springs and time by the waterfront. Both outings made room for the smaller pleasures of a Disney day, alongside the bigger attractions.
The outings move between two different Anaheim settings: Fantasyland’s teacups and California Adventure’s Cars Land and waterfront attractions. Those locations give the pictures their park context, rather than leaving every ride under the same Disneyland label.
The visit that became a music video
In its spring 2025 roundup, Disney Parks Blog reported that Gomez and Benny Blanco filmed their “Scared of Loving You” video during a Disneyland Resort trip. Disney identified Main Street, U.S.A., Mad Tea Party, Toy Story Midway Mania! and Radiator Springs Racers among the settings.
Those locations move between two different park worlds. The teacups belong to Disneyland’s Fantasyland. The midway game and Cars Land race belong to California Adventure. The video makes them part of one musical outing, even though visitors enter separate parks to reach them.
© DisneyWhat she actually said about Disneyland
While speaking with Blanco in Spotify’s original album conversation, Gomez said Disneyland “makes me incredibly happy.” ELLE’s coverage of the conversation and a later family visit preserves that remark. The cheerful park memories fit the family pictures she shared later.
The March 2026 family pictures also included swings, a Little Mermaid ride, and food stops. ELLE identified corn on the cob and a turkey leg. Alongside the screen-world attractions, those snacks put an ordinary park-day detail into the reported outing.
© DisneyWhy the teacups and the race feel so different
Disney’s attraction history dates Mad Tea Party to Disneyland’s opening day in 1955. Its giant cups draw on the tea-party sequence in Alice in Wonderland. Riders can turn the wheel in the center of their cup, making the spinning part of the shared experience.
Radiator Springs Racers takes another approach. D23 records its opening in 2012 as part of Cars Land. The attraction begins as a scenic trip through Ornament Valley before becoming a race. The town and its red-rock surroundings give that faster section a story to race through.
© DisneyA family day has room for smaller rides, too
The swings and Little Mermaid attraction put the later family outing on California Adventure’s waterfront. Disney’s Little Mermaid description follows Ariel’s story through music and staged scenes. It is a different kind of experience from competing against another car in Cars Land.
Across the outings, Gomez moved between several kinds of Disney experience: a film-inspired race, a musical underwater story, spinning rides and familiar park snacks. Those smaller stops give the family visit a different rhythm from the music-video shoot.
Jeremy Thompson / CC BY 2.0Disney California Adventure. Photo: Jeremy Thompson · CC BY 2.0. Resized for the web.
For a visit inspired by those settings, start by deciding which park contains your priorities. Our Disneyland and California Adventure comparison explains the choice; our guide to the details that make a themed land feel convincing offers a closer look at places such as Cars Land.
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