Almost immediately after Justin dropped "Sorry" from his Purpose album, fans began speculating that it was about Selena. With lyrics like "I know you know that I made those mistakes maybe once or twice / By once or twice I mean maybe a couple of hundred times / So let me, oh, let me redeem, oh, redeem myself tonight," it was hard not to. Justin later confirmed the speculation himself when he told Ellen DeGeneres in November 2015 that "Sorry" was "a little bit" about Selena Gomez. "It is tough, but there is a lot of stuff that reminds me of her," Justin told Ellen.