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Camila Cabello’s June Gloom
C’XOXO is a jarring pivot with cursed timing. It’s also her best album to date.
In her solo career, Cabello has made incredible strides as a singer while minding the flow of the charts with almost nagging care, delivering bubbly dance-pop bops, warm acoustic tunes, and brassy reggaeton and trap jams with pointed pop-circuit tastefulness. Having called it quits with Mendes (again) last year, Cabello, now 27, blew into 2024 noisily signaling change via a platinum dye job and “I Luv It,” a lead single starring Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti that interpolates Gucci Mane’s 2009 hit “Lemonade” (and whose chorus resembles Charli XCX’s “Unlock it” and “I Got It,” and whose video stages a gas-station dance routine reminiscent of Rosalía’s “Saoko”). Guincho, who has worked with Rosalía, Charli, and Sampha, and rising Los Angeles utility player Jasper Harris (Carti’s “Vamp Anthem,” ¥$’s “Vultures”) serve deliciously warped, often sample-based tracks for Cabello to emote about figuring out what she wants.
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