“Through trial and error, I’ve written enough finished songs to be able to say ‘Okay, this is me.
There were songs that five months ago were my favorite songs, and then two weeks after scrapped it from the album,” she explains. “The final product becomes more clear to you the more you carve at it and work on it. 'Silence of the Lambs': 'It Broke All the Rules' “In the Dark” had been written the day after the Grammys about an encounter with an unnamed famous boy she had met at an after-party. She wrote the lyrics for the ballad “I Have Questions” a year and a half ago, while “I’ll Never Be the Same” was inspired by a relationship she had a couple years back. “It’s kind of like having a huge block of marble and carving out a statue,” she tells Rolling Stone of the process of culling together lyrics, stories and music from the last few years of her life. (The LP’s exact fall release date yet has not yet been announced.) Following up the strong precedent set by those songs, the 20-year-old has been establishing herself as a versatile, budding pop diva with singles like “ Havana” and “ Crying in the Club,” which will appear on her debut solo LP The Hurting.
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She cracked the Top 20 with friend Shawn Mendes in 2015, and her collaboration “Bad Things” with Machine Gun Kelly topped off at Number Four.
Long before a dramatic she said-they said split from the girl group Fifth Harmony, Camila Cabello was planting the seeds for what is looking to become a fruitful solo career.