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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 18:49:30 GMT -5
I really enjoy the record still Simplicity sometimes just works wonders, especially since she only has one feature on the record and nothing was really catered to become a like a huge hit She wrote well too, listening to her Beats 1 interview
I can get why people say the album is a bit faceless, but imo I think her intention was just to keep it simple on this record Since she dropped songs that were made by hitmakers like Ed SHeeran, Charli XCX, etc
IHQ is the only one song I don't understand why it didn't make the record, it's simple and lyrically matched the themes she was going for. I'm happy she got #1 on the Billboard 200, hoping Havana manages to top the Hot 100 too
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 19:21:06 GMT -5
I have decided that Camila Cabello has earned the right for me to spell her name right. I have changed my entire outlook after mixing weed, wine and Percocets that this girl is the real deal. I concluded that she actually cares more about her music being a reflection of her than throwing together a handful of radio singles just for fame. She is ok by my books.
Congrats Cuban mama!
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Post by deepston on Jan 21, 2018 19:27:37 GMT -5
I thought she was crying in the club...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2018 20:34:36 GMT -5
The other girls must be fuming right now lol.
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Post by Rural Juror on Jan 21, 2018 20:56:27 GMT -5
The other girls must be fuming right now lol. I sure hope not. If they practice what they preach and they're really about female empowerment and supporting other women, they should be happy for her. I'm thrilled the album debuted at number one. So well-deserved. Havana rising up a spot would be the icing on the cake.
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Post by Call Me Crazy on Jan 21, 2018 21:51:48 GMT -5
Congratulations, Camila Cabello!
I'm so excited for her and her success. I'm anxious to see what they choose for the singles and if we will have her sophomore record by 2019.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jan 21, 2018 23:20:34 GMT -5
The other girls must be fuming right now lol. I sure hope not. If they practice what they preach and they're really about female empowerment and supporting other women, they should be happy for her. We could possibly start seeing a change in how the Pop girls do their albums and release cycles. Not everyone will do it the same way nor should they, but this does show that it can be done. The real test is if the album can spawn several additional hits and it continues to sell over time and have longevity. Since Camila has been doing pretty well so far with streaming, that could help. Hopefully her label and management are invested in her future singles and promotion the way they have been so far.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 2:23:23 GMT -5
Im not sure there is another hit single on this album. The album once I let the lyrics sink in is definitely better than I gave it credit for on first listen but it's more introspective than artistic or hit materal worthy. I think she is better as an artist than given credit for. I have more hope for her than say someone like Ariana who has more talent but not the authenticity or ability to define who she is.
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Post by spaceykSVP1999 on Jan 22, 2018 3:42:28 GMT -5
If "Havana" misses the No. 1, "Never Be The Same" will be a contender next month. "Real Friends" sounds like another top 3. "She Loves Control" can piggy back, it's a lost number 2 smasha from My Everything with autotune that sounds like it was produced by Wylcef 20 years ago.
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Post by Keelzit on Jan 22, 2018 9:46:39 GMT -5
YAAAS CaCa!! In a few hours the double #1 on the 2 main Billboard charts will be confirmed. It was about time a new pop girl absolutely dominated the charts. Who would have thought it'd be the female Fidel Castro? :'( :'(
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Post by carrieidol1 on Jan 22, 2018 12:20:27 GMT -5
Definitely a solid debut! I love “Never Be the Same”, “Consequences”, “Real Friends”, “Inside Out”, and “All These Years”. Glad to see she’s killing it on the charts!!!
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Post by leonagwen on Jan 22, 2018 12:53:28 GMT -5
Havana is a huge hit,right now she is riding the wave.Follow ups to huge hits are usually guaranteed at least a top 20.The real test will come with the follow up to Never be the same.Will she be able to keep pumping out hits? We will see.
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Post by Ty on Jan 22, 2018 13:47:28 GMT -5
I think "She Loves Control" and "In the Dark" will both do great (Top 40-level great) as follow-ups. It only depends on how long they want to stick with this album instead of releasing new materials (The Fame Monster / Good Girl Gond Bad situation) to keep the buzz going.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2018 13:54:08 GMT -5
IMO Into It, She Loves Control & In The Dark >>>>> I love em all a lot right now
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Post by forg on Jan 22, 2018 16:41:59 GMT -5
#1 on Billboard Hot 100 and 200!
Congratulations!
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Post by areyoureadytojump on Jan 22, 2018 17:02:04 GMT -5
The album is at ~381k SPS. + shipments = 500k. LOL
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Post by spaceykSVP1999 on Jan 23, 2018 1:05:31 GMT -5
Wow, I never thought Camila would be the next big pop girl, but here we are. Get it!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 1:12:12 GMT -5
It's actually shocking how well she recovered from Crying in the Club. She must have finally gotten Taylor Swift to give her an invitation to the Illuminati. She's doing way too well for there not be any devil magic involved.
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 23, 2018 2:03:49 GMT -5
These pop tarts needs to kiss the feet of all the streaming gods. What a time to be alive!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Jan 23, 2018 12:40:27 GMT -5
She REALLY needs to release New Friends as a single. So relatable and we see how well this style worked for Bieber when he tried it. Plus, it lends itself to nice performances of her just sitting on a stool with someone playing guitar or, you know, she could even learn how to pluck at a few strings herself! I agree with the people who said this album is a pleasant listen though. Once in a while, I will pull it up and let it play in the background, bop a few times, or even listen to lyrics. The only song that takes me completely out of the album is In The Dark with its disjointed instrumental/vocal combo and Radio Disney feel to the lyrics.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2018 15:04:43 GMT -5
Love "Havana" so glad it was #1 considering the trash at the top of the charts usually glad its finally a song i like (outside of Bodak Yellow)
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jan 26, 2018 3:43:01 GMT -5
HOT RIGHT NOW After a global solo smash hit right out of the gate, CAMILA CABELLO’s name – and her lyrics – are on everyone’s lips. LYNETTE NYLANDER meets the singer to talk success, overcoming nerves and her experience as an immigrant If there was a song that was the insistent sound of 2017, one that pulsed from sizzling vacation resorts, trailed from car windows in city traffic jams and hummed from the lips of the woman sat next to you on the train, it was Havana – a Latin-tinged pop banger that tells of a suave Cuban lover who stole the singer’s heart. Who was behind it? Camila Cabello. After three years as part of The X Factor-produced girl band Fifth Harmony, the singer struck out on her own at the end of 2016 and has been on a path to pop infamy ever since. Born Karla Camila Cabello Estrabao in Cojímar in Cuba, Cabello spent the first few years of her life bouncing between there and Mexico City, before her family settled in Miami when she was five years old. “I don’t really remember what [that time] was like, but I feel like it has totally shaped the way that I am as a person,” says Cabello of her upbringing. Dressed in a black DKNY hoodie and matching leggings, 20-year-old Cabello is foundation-free, just the remnants of some smoky eyeliner and mascara to hint at her usually glamorous appearance. It’s a frighteningly cold New York day, and she is huddled next to a gas heater in a rustic Staten Island townhouse. “There are characteristics [about me] that are super-Latin,” she continues. “My parents don’t think that anything is that big of a deal because they went through so much struggle to get where they are. So whenever I’m like, ‘Ooh, I’m so nervous, I’m about to perform,’ they’re like, ‘Cut the c**p. You’ll be OK.’” Cabello describes herself in formative years as “kind of invisible in school, very shy. If ever I sang, it was to just my family; I wasn’t in any of the music classes [at school]. So, when I first auditioned for The X Factor and made it and my audition finally appeared on television, everybody in my school was like, ‘What the hell?!’ because they had no idea that I sang.” At 15, a determined Cabello and her family traveled to North Carolina to attend The X Factor auditions. She made it through as an alternate, only to be rebuffed by the show’s producers. But a chance encounter backstage with impresario Simon Cowell changed her fate. Cabello was allowed to audition and was put together with fellow solo singers Ally Brooke, Normani Kordei, Dinah Jane and Lauren Jauregui to form Fifth Harmony. The band placed third in the reality TV competition, a fact that seemed to have little bearing on their chart success – an American Music Award, White House performances and over 1.6 billion on-demand streams are just a few of the band’s career highlights. Rumors swirled about discord in the group, but Cabello says her exit was about spreading her wings rather than anything malicious. “With the experiences we had being in the studio, I became super-curious about songwriting and it was around the time – I think it was the second year that I was with the group – that I wanted to start songwriting for other people,” she says. “But once I was old enough to experience my first kiss, or the first time that I went out on a date, I began writing songs about it, and I didn’t want to give them away to anybody else because they were about me. I was finding my voice, and with it, I found the passion that gives you a deeper meaning.” Being in the group, she promises, was an essential, positive experience. “Man, it shaped me entirely. I would not be the person that I am right now; I would not have been ready for this,” she says. “I feel like being part of a group teaches you so many things about yourself, ironically. And it also brings out this healthy competition, you know what I mean? You never want to be the one that sucks.” After she made her exit in December 2016, Cabello released her first solo single, Crying in the Club, which performed modestly compared to the immediate success of Havana. In fact, Cabello reveals, Havana almost didn’t happen: “I was in the studio last January with my producer Frank [Dukes] and we had all given up hope on the song because we couldn’t finish the verses,” says Cabello. “[But] I knew it was the best thing to come out of that week of sessions.” Luckily, she didn’t let it go, and thanks to a meeting with hitmaker Pharrell Williams, the song was finally finished, complete with a verse by American rapper Young Thug as the finishing touch. Cabello dedicated Havana’s accompanying video to the Dreamers, the colloquial term for the hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who, under America’s current Trump administration, face deportation after his recession of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). “I feel like I have to [say something about it] because it feels unfair to me that they have to deal with this. There’s nothing that really separates me from them – it’s the same story,” Cabello reflects. “We came [to] the United States at a really young age, parents moved you here… I can’t imagine someone saying, ‘You can’t live here anymore; you have to move back to Mexico or Cuba.’ I don’t have a home there; I wouldn’t know [what to do]. It is so destabilizing because these are kids that have lived practically their whole lives [in the Us]. You know, my music is something that I do for myself, that’s what makes me happy, but I would like to help people, too... Impact lives in a deeper way.” Talking to Cabello, you can’t help but think of a young woman coming into her own, albeit under the magnifying glass of the entertainment industry. This is made even more evident by her eponymous debut album, Camila, released this month. Previously titled The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving, Cabello made the decision to change it to be more of a reflection of where she is at now; she has put aside the hurt, she says, and is on a path to happiness. “That [title] was about a situation that just left me feeling horrible, and I thought my album would be sad seven months ago, but it’s not. This is my first album; it’s a reflection of me. I would never want to give the power to somebody that hurt me. No way.” More multifaceted than your average pop outing, the 11-track listen is a mix of mid-tempos and ballads with lyrics that read like pages ripped from Cabello’s diary, backed by heavyweight producers who, through infectious riffs and powerful melodies, never let us forget the singer’s Latin roots. “I didn’t want every song to sound like Havana, I wanted to surprise people,” she smiles. On its release earlier this month, the album went straight to number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and she’s following it up with a tour, she reveals, that will take her through to the end of 2018. But when she does find herself home in Miami, you’ll find Cabello devouring Harry Potter or episodes of her latest discovery, Sex and the City (well, she was born in 1997; it’s not totally unforgivable). “I think I want to move to New York – Sex and the City does that to you,” she exclaims. But unlike Carrie Bradshaw, Cabello is less Manolo Blahnik, more Birkenstocks. “I do love Birkenstocks, that was me over Christmas. I love masculine suits, too,” she says, referencing the style of Michael Jackson, Prince and Madonna. “I like things that make me feel empowered. Although I do take pleasure in just wearing sweats sometimes – no hair, no makeup.” Given the choice between going to Miami’s hottest nightclubs in her downtime or having a hangout party with her close-knit gang of girlfriends, it’s a no-brainer: Cabello is still that shy young girl with a monster talent, but she’s trying to be braver. “It’s actually my New Year’s resolution, to have more experiences,” she says. “I work so much that I don’t see people for a long time, and then I forget how to interact with people [socially]. It makes me so nervous. But then I go and push myself and do it, and I remember it’s actually not scary to put yourself out there. Before, I was like, ‘It’s just a part of my personality’. But I know that I have to constantly fight against [being] introverted. Usually I don’t want to go out and meet a new person – even if it’s a boy I like, I try and make an excuse. It’s constantly something that I have to push myself to do. [But] even though it’s difficult sometimes, it’s always worth it.” ‘Camila’ is out now www.net-a-porter.com/magazine/437/9
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Post by Kishi KCM on Jan 27, 2018 2:08:40 GMT -5
My favorite track is Inside Out and it's also the most underrated. Hope it's a single.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jan 28, 2018 2:09:16 GMT -5
Certain people at ONTD and ATRL keep trying to do the most to get these stories and other things about Camila's allegedly racist and other problematic misbehaviors when she was younger out there. It's too much to cut and paste. ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/109362091.html
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Post by SHOOTER on Jan 28, 2018 2:49:39 GMT -5
ONTD? LiveJournal? They both still kicking? hello 2004!
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jan 28, 2018 3:05:55 GMT -5
ONTD? LiveJournal? They both still kicking? hello 2004! Of all the other celebrity news sites and stuff that have come and gone throughout these many years, ONTD is one of the few that has managed to still survive. Though I dislike that they stopped having full-on nude posts. I think that was more of a lawsuit-related and TOS issue than a "we don't want to do that anymore" sort of thing.
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Post by Fat Ass Kelly Price on Jan 28, 2018 6:12:42 GMT -5
Certain people at ONTD and ATRL keep trying to do the most to get these stories and other things about Camila's allegedly racist and other problematic misbehaviors when she was younger out there. It's too much to cut and paste. ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/109362091.htmlI mean... it's not really alleged. There's more evidence than the baseless rumors you believe and repeat as if they were sent to you from God himself. You can acknowledge her dirt and still bop to her music. You're like 52, Disco, you should be able to understand this.
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Post by Glove Slap on Jan 28, 2018 10:22:35 GMT -5
Certain people at ONTD and ATRL keep trying to do the most You can't refer to your own accounts at other places as if they were different people :sip2: . It's like that article I saw on ONTD ironically ages ago where someone wrote something at one place and then cited it as a source in another article they wrote somewhere else.
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Post by Chelsea Press 2 on Jan 28, 2018 14:53:17 GMT -5
Certain people at ONTD and ATRL keep trying to do the most You can't refer to your own accounts at other places as if they were different people :sip2: . It's like that article I saw on ONTD ironically ages ago where someone wrote something at one place and then cited it as a source in another article they wrote somewhere else. I can't/don't post at ONTD as I was permanbanned there too.
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