Suddenly Cabello found herself swept up in a swirl of emotions. “I think falling in love is the ultimate artistic inspiration because it opens you up,” she noted to E! News. “Falling in love, for me, just brings out all of my vulnerabilities. All these things show up for me and it just makes you open. When I am in love I listen to songs and I just cry. I cry easier. That must mean that I’m more open and more in touch with my emotions. All the spectrum of emotions… joy, fear, all of it.”
The type of stuff that makes for one damn good sophomore album.
“It’s about being in love,” she reflected to Ellen DeGeneres of December 2019’s platinum release, Romance. “I was basically completely single for 20 years and it was, like, the intensity and adrenaline of my life was in the studio writing about an emotion that I wanted. Whereas this time, it’s just been a lot that’s happened. And, you know, I’ve fallen in love and out of love and in love. And that’s basically what this album is about. It’s just kind of, you know, falling in love and what that feels like.”
Because now that she’s in it, there are no doubts. As she put it to E! News, “I love him with all my heart and always have.”
(Originally published Aug. 8, 2020 at 12 a.m. PT)
