Omg, Camila Cabello just addressed the drama she ‘copied’ Charli XCX for the first time

It’s been an unfairly rough year for Camila Cabello. This year, Camila pulled off a rebrand unlike anything else she’s done in her career for her fourth album C, XOXO. Camila Cabello tapped producer er El Guincho, the acclaimed producer behind Rosalía’s MOTOMAMI, to create a genre bouncing record that explores new sounds and aesthetics – but as soon as the record began its era she was slapped with inauthenticity allegations. Lead single I Luv It was branded a Charli XCX rip off – with the hyperpop sound sort of echoing Charli tracks like I Got It. Despite the fact Charli XCX and Camila Cabello have been friends for years, there was a lot of online drama that Camila copied Charli – which was only worsened by the acclaim and commercial success Charli was seeing with Brat. Now, Camila Cabello has addressed the drama she copied Charli XCX for the first time – and she was done dirty.

Speaking in a new interview with Nylon, Camila Cabello opened up about how hard it was facing the internet discourse that she’d copied Charli XCX. “I said something like ‘elements of hyperpop’ [somewhere], Camila explained. “I hate that I said that, because people ran with this thing before the album was even out. Charli is one of my favourite artists, you know? Twentysomethings is literally a guitar song about being broken up with in New York. I can tell that people saying this weren’t even listening to the music. They didn’t do the reading. They didn’t do the listening. I don’t want to sound like I’m a bitter sailor. I think I was on the internet too much, and I think that really hurt me. And then I got off the internet.”

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i still wake up everyday needing to listen to i luv it by camila cabello as a motivation boost it’s truly the best thing to come out of this year pic.twitter.com/vdiHMB7Tzq

— joe (@superccsonic) July 21, 2024

I will shout til the cows come home about how misunderstood C, XOXO has been – and how daft the Charli comparisons were beyond some similarities in the I Luv It chorus. Charli XCX even posted a video of herself recreating Camila blowing her hair in the car window.

Camila opened up about how much people misunderstanding C, XOXO affected her. “This was a hard album cycle for me. It was really challenging from an audience point of view. I wrote this whole album, and people are questioning my authenticity. It’s kind of like a trippy thing. Like, this came from my gut. My favorite albums are kind of polarizing. Not all people understand it, but the people that love it? Really love it. Even when I felt misunderstood, it felt like people were more passionate about my music than they have been in a while. And that’s cool. I feel like that’s what my favourite artist is.”

Not everyone missed the boat with it though – with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé both giving praise to the record. Camila said “Anytime an artist that I respect has said something to me like, ‘Hey, I really love what you’re doing,’ it recharges my battery. A lot of the time I felt so misunderstood.”

Justice for C, XOXO!

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