Camila Cabello bet on herself and won.
1 song and No.
1 album in her solo debut.
The music industry has taken notice, including Sir Elton John.
That’s high praise.
And to think, she got her start onX-Factorand only managed to come in third with her 5H bandmates.
But you probably already knew that.
The only thing missing was the city Cabello was singing about.
The petite singer filmed the nearly seven-minute video inLos Angeles, not Havana.
If you were fooled, you’re not alone.
“And it looks exactly like Cuba.”
“It was supposed to be Cuba,” Balvin said.
“But for our agenda, it was kind of hard to go there.”
She toldElvis Duranthat her anxiety kicked in during the try out, causing her to forget the words.
“But then I showed up two days after to see my name on the list.
No name on the list.
Didn’t make it,” Cabello said.
“But I made it the next year.
Perseverance, people.”
The tale is reminiscent of Cabello’s journey toX-Factor, which also involved rejection.
We can’t say for sure sinceher audition never aired.
The correct way to say it is Ca-ME-la.
See, it’s not that hard.
But Cowell for some reason has never said it right, calling her Ca-MILL-a.
“And I was too shy to say anything, so he still to this day calls me Ca-MILL-a.
Surely he heard the correct pronunciation a hundred times when dealing with people who work closely with Cabello.
Did he not notice?
Or maybe, as Cabello toldCapital FM, it’s a British thing.
), but overall she seemed lukewarm on the whole thing.
I just like to transform.
I don’t even like to wear the same clothes or like the same bracelet.
When I move on from something, it’s very drastic.”
Yeah, Camila, we know.
She has fame, wealth and a highly coveted membership toTaylor Swift’s squad.
“So honestly, I haven’t had the time!
I’m also way too clumsy and distracted to drive a car.
I think… at least for now.”
Cabello talks about learning to drive the way many of us talk about the gym.
Sheoftensaysshe is going to go through with it, only to continue putting it off.
Oh well, she can always just ride a bicycle to get around wait, nevermind.
“Obviously the first few interviews, you know what kind of questions you’re going to get.
… Now I feel like I’m just kind of like, you know what?
I feel like … when you get older, you get a more realistic perspective of what should matter.
So what scared you before, you’re kind of just like, it’s not a big deal.
There are bigger things.”
Tell that to the remaining members of Fifth Harmony.
47on the Billboard 100.
Cabello eventually ditched the song, leaving it off her album,Camila.
We were all very nervous about it."
She isn’t shy about her flatulence
Breaking news: Camila Cabello farts.
That might be hard for some to believe, but she has confirmed the news herself in interviews.
Some might say too open.
And sometimes you just got to own it.
You just got to be like ‘I farted.'"
The toilet talk doesn’t end there.
I have started to do that more and more often and it works.
It means we’re all human."
You must be really pretty.
Believe it or not, Cabello, a long time Swiftie, opted for the latter.
The lesson, as always: Famous people can get away with anything.
It’s where she has lived since coming to the US when she was6 years old.
But it’s not her favorite city in the US.
That honor goes to New York.
Sex and the Citymight have something to do with her infatuation.
Cabello is so hung up on the Big Apple that that she dreams of living there one day.
But just to be clear, Cabello’s romantic fantasy doesn’t involve the winter months.
“I could not do it in the winter, though,” she toldSiriusXM Hits 1.
“I don’t know how you guys do it.”
See, Cabello is still a South Floridean at heart.
