At just 20 years old Camila Cabello is already a Pop veteran. At just the age of 15 she entered The XFactor USA where she would meet 4 other girls with similar ambitions to become artists. They were put together and became Fifth Harmony, for four years Camila was at the forefront of the group and when 5H were at the top of their game Camila decided that it was time to move on. 18 December 2017 would be the last time we'd see Camila as part of the group.
It's been an entire year since she left and a lot has happened since. Camila's imminent success would begin to become apparent to everyone around her. The Cuban American singer has the vocal range of Mariah Carey and a raspy smooth voice that can make anyone fall in love.
Camila's long awaited debut album is very personal but so relatable. The 10 track album has a mixture of mellow sounds infused with her cuban heritage rhythms. Her hit song Havana was just a taste of what she could do. Surprising everyone and making a smash through the industry by becoming the longest running female on the top of the charts. Havana is heavily inspired by her Cuban roots with a steamy piano groove featuring Young Thug.
Camila is exactly what a pop artist should be, creating music that is straight to the point and incredibly vulnerable. Camila solely focuses on her voice with mostly stripped down melodies from pianos to drums and percussion. She leaves out songs that she dropped like the pondering 'I have questions' and her first single 'Crying in the club', she also dropped the albums original name 'the hurting. the loving. the healing'.
This album doesn't have club bangers, 'Havana' is the closest thing we get to something that we could dance to at the club. Yet that song is still bitter-sweet, a song about love and disappointment 'half of my heart is in Havana'. She gets into her Reggaeton beats co-produced by Frank Dukes with 'She Loves Control' and swerved between English and Spanish in the fun and light hearted 'Inside Out'. She gets emotional and real about loving someone that hurts with 'Consequences', her vocals come out with a melancholy piano accompanying her. It's heart-wrenching and heart breaking.
Camila told Rolling Stone magazine that she aimed for "a good balance of the emo and the happy". This girl definitely went more for the emotional than the happy but it works because you can hear it her voice, she's been through a lot and this album is allowing her fans to understand that. This is who she is even though she's been tormented, hurt and broken this album gives her confidence to be exactly what she's always wanted to be.
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