Camila Cabellois lending her voice for a haunting reimagining of a classic bythe Who.
I love the experience of almost acting while Im singing, Cabello tellsRolling Stone.
Those qualities have been such a part of my journey.
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Plus, Cabello says, I love me a little bit of drama.
I really relate to that desire to escape into a world, she says.
Thats why I read a lot of fiction.
I just like escaping, and I think me and gamers have that in common.
What was it like covering this song?Its so iconic.
This is a classic song, and I hadnt heard it before.
That was what made me so excited to work with Diablo.
I was like, Wow, this is one of the greatest songs of all time.
I talked to my friends about it.
I was like, Oh, Diablo hit me up about working with them.
So many of my friends were so obsessed with the game.C,XOXO, shes giving a little dark.
Shes giving a little bit, nighttime vibes.
So it just felt right.
It feels like everybody can relate to the lyrics in the song.
But then, also, as a public persona, some of the lines really jumped out at me.
Its a human experience.
When theres a hard time, it’s possible for you to always access that strength.
It can feel very cathartic to sing that.
Its very cathartic to hear myself sing like that on this.
Its things I wouldnt normally do.
Earlier, you said you hadnt heard that song before.
So artists like the Bee Gees and Elton John were people I found later in life.
Like David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, that was stuff that I discovered when I was 22.
I didnt grow up listening to them.
Its such an immigrant experience.
Ask me aboutJose Jose, bro!
My parents listened to Michael Jackson, and thats pretty much it.
That was one of the most fun parts for me.
Sheryl Crow and Limp Bizkit have covered it as well.
Its like Creep by Radiohead thats been covered so many times because its such a universal song.
Its a song that feels like it was always meant to have existed.
You mentioned that it lives in a darker world, like your last album.
Are you staying in that dark world for a while?I still needC, XOXOin my life.
Im living it in the sense of that kind of bravado that exists with the album.
You just have to put on the ski mask.
Its almost like my interpretation of me being a rapper.
It gives me that confidence, that bravado, that sense of control.C,XOXOis that.
Its not fake confidence.
Its like, Yeah, I suffer.
I like doing things that feel like Im innovating formyself, like Im doing something I havent done before.
Perhaps Im doing a melody that feels weird or putting two styles together that normally wouldnt go.
No 5, where its this soft piano, and these more aggressive drums.
Capturing that in my music is when I feel really great.
Whenever it feels a little bit more generic, Im not happy with that.
I think thats whyC,XOXOfeels so good.
I dont like being completely emo, I dont like being completely happy.
I really like the combination of things.
How do you think this collaboration will connect to them?I was talking about this with someone today.
I want to live outside of reality.
I want to live in this fantasy.
AndC,XOXOfeels like this Miami spring breakers fantasy.
My last album,Familia, felt like a Pedro Almodovar fantasy.
I really relate to that desire to escape to this world or to escape to something.
