"Hands to Myself" is a song by American singer Selena Gomez from her second studio album, Revival (2015). The track was written by 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.

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