After Zayn Malik left, they released one more album before splintering, and it generated one of their biggest hits, “Drag Me Down.” Similarly, Fifth Harmony are soldiering on without Cabello, and they’re doing pretty well for themselves so far. That’s not what happened with 5H’s commercial/spiritual peers One Direction, though. And historically, with some notable exceptions, the departure of a key member usually means the end of the group. When it comes to girl groups and boy bands, we almost always see it. Thus, with no shortage of acrimony, she left the group a week before Christmas. Not that Cabello’s public profile is anywhere near where JT and Bey were when they went solo or that she’s close to assembling a resume on that level, but her star power certainly was outshining the rest of Fifth Harmony’s by several degrees. They’d built a voracious fan base (seriously, cross the Harmonizers at your own peril), scored some hits (most famously last year’s gloriously campy “Work From Home” with Ty Dolla $ign), and rendered themselves the definitive girl group of their generation, one that synthesized pop, hip-hop, and R&B into consistently entertaining easy-listening fare.īy the time they released their second album, last year’s 7/27, several members were dabbling in solo work, but Cabello was the only one who’d scored a legitimate hit with the 2015 Shawn Mendes duet “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” And when her Machine Gun Kelly collaboration “Bad Things” soared to #4 last fall, matching her group’s best chart position, it was beginning to seem like Fifth Harmony would go down as the act that launched Camila Cabello’s career - just as *NSYNC and Destiny’s Child, although each historically significant and beloved in their own right, are now overshadowed by Justin Timberlake and Beyoncé. Like their counterparts in One Direction, Fifth Harmony were a quintet of former X Factor contestants who’d been assembled into a unit by Simon Cowell and ended up carving out a lucrative career together. Some context: For the past eight months Fifth Harmony have been semi-publicly feuding with Camila Cabello, who had been their best-known member before going solo last December, as the best-known members of pop groups are wont to do. But if the dramatic gesture did not result in any literal wounds, it likely contributed to some longstanding emotional bruising.
It was just a stunt, of course no girl-group alumni were harmed in the making of this dance routine.
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Seconds later, when the faceless figure at the center of the formation was jerked backward to her apparent doom, they were more likely screaming the way pro wrestling fans respond to a heel turn. Even walking in the street and having a stranger smile at you-that’s what really makes you happy.For an instant, when five silhouettes appeared atop a platform to begin the performance, Fifth Harmony’s fans (who undoubtedly comprised a large portion of this year’s VMAs audience the Harmonizers roll deep) likely wondered if they were witnessing a reunion of the group’s original lineup. “The human part of life is what makes you happy,” she says. And as big as she gets, she works to stay grounded. As much as Cabello is a product of her upbringing, she’s also a reflection of the merging of Latinx culture with the global mainstream-a sense of responsibility not lost on her, but not steering the ship either. Her best tracks-“Havana,” “Crying in the Club,” “Sēnorita,” “She Loves Control”-merge the sound and feel of classic Latin pop (from Celia Cruz to Calle 13) with contemporary R&B and the singer-songwriter intimacy of Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift. The conversation at the party? She wrote a song about it called “In the Dark,” because that’s what Camila Cabello does.īorn in Havana in 1997, Cabello sang with the reality-show group Fifth Harmony before starting a solo career around 2017. In a culture where relatability has to share space with professionalism and hustle, Cabello has become one of the most grounded, appealing artists in pop, the kind of singer whose real-life circumstances-a young Cuban American woman, a little OCD, hopelessly romantic-comes through in her music without ever seeming idiosyncratic or self-involved.
“I feel like the human stuff, the twisted stuff, the little isms-that’s what makes people interesting,” she said. It freaked her out a little, but it also reminded her that too much polish can ruin anything.
But even as their chat warmed up, Cabello sensed the guy was still performing, like he was stuck in a loop he couldn’t turn off. In an interview with Apple Music about her 2018 debut Camila, Camila Cabello told a story about a conversation she had at a Grammy party.
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