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Chained To The Rhythm: The Month In Pop

Camila Cabello Parses Her Past And Looks To The Future On Familia

2:51 PM EDT on April 11, 2022

Sasha Samsonova

In 2019, I attended a listening session and press junket around Camila Cabello's sophomore album Romance. It was late fall, just a few months after the former Fifth Harmony singer had publicly entered into a relationship with fellow pop singer Shawn Mendes. As I and a group of other writers squeezed into a small studio booth with Cabello, she bookended each track with passionate commentary around what the song meant to her, and who it was about. Most of those songs were about her relationship with Mendes, and the album's amorous tone was reflected on its cover art, with Cabello in a flowing red gown.