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Her newest song is about her ex… but not in the way you might think! Camila just dropped a new track called “Cry For Me”, with lyrics like “When I said I hope you’re happy, I didn’t mean it/never thought you’d be so good at moving on” and she posted about it to Insta, saying I think everyone has felt this at one point or another, when your ex moves on faster than you and of course you want them to be happy but just… not so fast. But her ex wasn’t the one who was quick to move on – she was! Which means this song might have been written from his point of view.

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Camila & Shawn initially didn’t want to record Señorita!The song was Shawn’s idea, but when he initially sent it to her she wasn’t feeling it, Watch here. By the time she decided she wanted to do it, he had changed HIS mind. They went back and forth for months before finally getting into the studio to record the track that ended up going all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and LiveXLive’s Weekly Pop 40! Listen here.

She’s been open about her struggles with anxiety. Camila was extremely shy as a kid – her family says they never even heard her sing! She would wait until they left the house before performing privately in her room. It took her a long time to get past her performance anxiety, something she’s still working on. She wrote two long posts about overcoming anxiety in July 2019, saying I went from never wanting to sing in front of my family to being addicted to performing, from being too anxious to hang out with new people to... still being a little anxious but having THE BEST time and making irreplaceable memories. The essence of me is the same, but i’ve changed so much as a person. You choose who you’re going to be. Force yourself to do what you’re afraid of, always- and go after what you want and who you want to be, because you’re worth that. You’re worth the fight. It’s the most worthwhile one there is. Love you ❤️

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I remember growing up hearing stories of the singers I loved, all the stories sounded the same, kids who would grow up performing for their families and putting on talent shows for their parents when they were little who grew up to be dazzling to me. I was the opposite, I never ever sang in front of my parents or friends and would get flustered when they would ask me to, I sang in my room when my parents left for Walmart and cried when one day I saw them filming me through the crack of the door, I got teary eyed when people sang happy birthday to me because people looking at me actually made me overwhelmed. I was generally incredibly nervous and socially anxious when I was little; and people always have this look of disbelief when I tell them that. I did an interview the other day where I got it again, the interviewer said something along the lines of “So... how’d you end up here?” The answer is, I feel like my whole life there’s been two Camila’s in me. There’s little Camila that is terrified of the unknown, is aware of all the ways everything can go wrong, (actually can picture them vividly lol), and thinks it’s safer to stay home than to play ball. Then there’s the other Camila. And she knows what she wants out of life, is aware of how little time I have to let little Camila run the show while time passes by, and grabs young me by the hand and forces her out the door saying “Let’s go. You’ll survive, and I’m not gonna miss out on this. Let’s go.” And that is literally how I can sum up how I’ve gotten to this point in my life. (I’m talking about as a person, not success.) remember feeling discouraged when I felt like some people were just “born” to do things. That they always had it in them. “They were always this outgoing, they always loved to entertain, they were always this bold, they were always this outspoken.” (.....continue)

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She spent the money for her Quinceañera on a trip to audition for X-Factor!She told the LatinX blog mitú: I didn’t want to have a Quinceañera, I’m not really that type. I wouldn’t have had enough friends to invite to a party. So I asked my parents that instead of spending money on a party, if they could take me to North Carolina to audition for The X Factor. It was the best decision I ever made.

She posted dozens of covers to Youtube before she became famous, then deleted all but one. Karla Cabello (as she was known before she got famous) really did love to sing, even if she didn’t like to sing in front of anyone. She eased her way in to performing by posting covers on Youtube, at first with her face covered in the videos so that her classmates wouldn’t recognize her. She deleted all of them but one – her cover of Demi Lovato’s “Skyscraper", which you can still find online under the Youtube account karlacabello. Watch here, it is ADORABLE.

Find out more about Camila’s musical influences, plus hear her hits and biggest collabs on Camila Cabello: DNA!