Simply as spring started to bloom, it blossomed into one of many biggest diva seasons in pop historical past — from Ariana Grande’s “Everlasting Sunshine” and Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter” to Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Division,” Dua Lipa’s “Radical Optimism” and Billie Eilish’s “Hit Me Onerous and Mushy.”
However as we set summer time off, there aren’t any indicators of diva fever cooling off, with the likes of Sabrina Carpenter, Gracie Abrams and Chappell Roan bringing that femme warmth.
And let’s not neglect about Camila Cabello, who’s again along with her new album “C,XOXO,” out on Friday. It’s her fourth album since going solo from Fifth Concord — and the way the hell did that occur? Wasn’t she simply, like, breaking apart the group?
Effectively, since then, she hasn’t precisely develop into the following Beyoncé.
However, don’t get it twisted, she’s nonetheless had hits like “Havana,” which hit No. 1 again in 2017, to “Señorita,” one other chart-topping single that she had with Shawn Mendes again after they have been collectively.
And on her new LP, Cabello collabs with everybody from Playboi Carti (on the trappy opener “I Luv It”) to Lil Nas X (on the electro-popping “He Is aware of”) to former Metropolis Ladies JT and Yung Miami (on the reggaeton jam “Dream-Ladies”).
However the A-plus-list visitor is Drake, who reveals up on not one however two tracks. And my jam is their joint “Sizzling Uptown” — which is scorching for actual y’all.
It takes you again to the home vibes of Drake’s 2022 album “Truthfully, Nevermind,” and nearly jogs my memory a bit of little bit of his “Take Care” collab with Rihanna. And there’s even a touch of the Afrobeats bliss of Tyla’s “Water.”
There are different bops on the album, in addition to ballads — she’s usually weaker on the latter, though she flexes some vocal expertise when she slows it down on “B.O.A.T.” (which stands for “better of all time”).
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However regardless of its total solidness, the album is a bit of far and wide — and Cabello doesn’t have the singular vocal beastness of, say, Christina Aguilera to carry all of it collectively.
And so far as chart targets go, I don’t hear one other “Havana” or “Señorita” right here.
Nonetheless, Camila is getting some XOXO from me.