With obvious influences from artists such as Charlie XCX and Rosalía,Camila Cabello presents her fourth studio album C’XOXO, a material in which he talks about sensuality, the last stage of one’s twenties and romantic relationships.
Cabello, who has been in the public eye since the age of 15 After being discovered on the show Factor X, in this album she shows a totally reinvented version of herself, more open and free, and above all totally distanced from her last album Familia (2022), in which she delved into Latin rhythms and Spanish.
His new material, entirely in English, takes the public through genres such as hyperpop, afrobeat, R&B and hip-hop, taking up successful rhythms from the past and sharing credits with artists such as Drake, JT and Yung Mami, Lil Nas X and Playboi Carti.
In songs like I Luv It, the first single from the album, the singer set the aesthetic that would define this new stage that shows her with platinum blonde hair, and that recalls the fashion of the 2000s with saturated makeup and sportswear.
The song’s video references speed, cars and guns and shows an obvious inspiration to the album. Motomami by Rosalía, specifically to videos of songs like Saoko, where the vehicles took center stage on the screen. The Spanish singer’s album was described by Cabello as “the best pop music she had ever heard” in an interview with an American media and probably said inspiration also arose during her work in C’XOXOin which the young woman collaborated with El Guincho, producer and co-author of Rosalía’s ‘El mal querer’.
The album’s hyperpop themes are also reminiscent of Charlie XCX, who has currently revolutionized social media with her album ‘Brat’, due to the heavy use of Auto-Tune and vibrant childlike vocals on songs like I Love It, He Knows either Dreamgirls.
On topics such as Twenty Somethings’ Cabello sings “when it comes to us I don’t know what the hell I’m doing” and later says: “I can do whatever I want,” in a kind of reflection on adulthood.
Along with Drake, Cabello explores the failure of a relationship in Uuugly with just a few choruses, and adapts to the style of the Canadian author of ‘Hotline Bling’ in ‘Hot Uptown’, with which the controversial rapper returns to dancehall.
Meanwhile in Dreamgirls’The singer who has been exposed to the cameras since her adolescence sends a message to girls: “This is for the girls who are learning to be women. We are the ones who make the world go round and if they didn’t know it, now they know it.”
Although Cabello had dealt with sexual themes in other songs, especially in her album ‘Romance’, in ‘C’XOXO’, the singer expresses herself freely in a more explicit way: ‘Does she get wet like that for you? ‘ she asks in June Bloom.
The album is available on platforms from today, June 28, when he will have an appearance at the Tinderbox festival in Denmark and on June 29 he will perform at the Glastonbury festival in the United Kingdom.
