Camila Cabello released her new album “Familia” this Friday. Photo: AP.
Camila Cabello said she found joy in her source while working Family, his new studio album. The pop singer-songwriter, who was born in Havana to a Cuban mother and a Mexican father, immersed herself in the music she listened to when she was young and even ventured to write a few songs entirely in Spanish for the first time.
“I was curious what the process would be, because my English process is I take a microphone and I just sing whatever is on my mind, including the lyrics. So I thought:` I wonder what will come out in Spanish, ‘”he said in a recent interview with Zoom from Los Angeles .. Cabello released his third solo album under Epic Records on Friday.
Camila’s hair. touch the picture
the exit is in the teeth, a pop song with Argentine urban singer María Becerra about the jealousy a person can feel over the past of an ex -girlfriend. And later Celiaa rhythmic theme that seems to refer to Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa, whose chorus says: “All his life without sugar / He met Celia without going to Cuba”.
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Camila’s hair. The Cuban-American singer has released a new album as a tribute to her Latin origins. Photo EFE
The album features twelve songs in English, Spanish and “Spanglish”, along with singles. Don’t Go at Bam bam, with Ed Sheeran and collaboration with WILLOW (for psychofreak) and Cuban singer Yotuel (in Lola).
“My heritage and my backgrounds are a big part of who I am, and increasingly something that makes me feel really connected and happy and that’s what I want to be close to as I get older,” she said, referring to her parents and grandparents. when talking about the album title.
The new album so stands out from previous albums like Camila o romance, and one of the focused tracks on this LP is definitely psychofreak produced with WILLOW (Willow Smith, the actress and singer, son of Will Smith and Jada Pinkett), as one of the most outstanding collaborations.
psychofreak is a song accompanied by a video clip directed by Charlotte Rutherford, set in an eighties-style interrogation room, starring Camila and Willow, two souls who are aware of their strange psychopathy and seek, in some way, redemption .
About up to the teeththe theme shared with María Becerra, the Argentine advanced, in the recent Grammy delivery: “I don’t want to break anything, but the song is beautiful and it’s a genre I haven’t done before. Neither.”
Camila’s hair. On the album “Familia” she has collaborations with María Becerra, Willow Smith and Ed Sheeran, among others. Photo: REUTERS.
Friends as “family by choice”
Focusing on the tradition of his origin, Cabello cites his close friends and companions as his “family by choice.” “It’s really about community and how important relationships are to me and I think everyone.” , said.
In music, the album uses classic rhythms like mariachi mixed with contemporary sounds in songs like The good lifewhich Cabello interprets in English accompanied by Mariachi Garibaldi by Jaime Cuéllar, with a Spanish choir from the Mexican band and the singer’s own father, Alejandro Cabello.
“That was one of the songs I wrote with (producers) Ricky (Reed), Cheche Alara and Edgar Barrera. We listened to songs I heard when I was a kid: something by Alejandro Fernández, mariachi songs that my dad played when I was younger. younger. We thought, `What can we do that is interesting and unique?‘and came this subject. “
a nod to homeland and life
The cover of Camila Cabello’s new album, “Familia”.
On Family is also Lola, with Yotuel, who co -wrote with Mike Sabath and Scott Harris, about a woman who wants “born and alive” rather than “town or death,” Fidel Castro’s motto. The line is derived from the 2021 Latin Grammy-winning song homeland and lifeby Yotuel, Descemer Bueno, El Funky, Gente de Zona, Yadam González, Beatriz Luengo and Maykel Osorbo.
The song became a song of demonstrations in Cuba that year after some of its authors dared to express their disagreement with the government for the first time.
“I was very touched when Yotuel said yes to writing that song and collaborating with me because, for me,‘ Patria y vida ’changed history and gave a lot of courage and hope that the things in Cuba. “‘said Hair.
For him, Lola represents not only the people of his own country but of any other country where “intelligent and talented people do not have the same opportunity because of where they were born and where they live,” said the singer, who came in Miami at age 6.
He added: “I’m just wondering what my life would be like if my family didn’t go to the United States and all possible alternatives.”
A theme dedicated to Shawn Mendes?
About bam bamtaught by many fans as a possible song about the breakup of her relationship with Shawn Mendes at the end of last year, the singer said that “of course it’s something personal; every song is what I felt that day. I wrote. this “‘.
Without confirming the data, Camila explained: “In Latin music there are a lot of songs that have these kinds of life lessons, like the impermanence of things and the hard and beautiful times.; You just don’t know what. what’s around, how things develop, change and change. “
After writing the song with his team based on that principle, he said they sent it to Ed Sheeran, who made some “incredible” changes and sent him the chord development that is now heard on track.
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Source: Clarin