Dennis Leupold
Camila Cabello released her first post-Fifth Harmony solo single, “Crying in the Club,” back in May, and her current single, “Havana,” came out in August. But the singer says we may not get to hear her debut collection until 2018 — because she’s trying to make what she calls “the dream album.”
Asked by Newsweek when we can expect the album, Camilla says, “Definitely by the top of next year. I am still fine-tuning. It’s really important to me…you only have one chance to make a debut album. I have songs right now that I’m so proud of and I love so much, so I want them to be in the best company.”
“I hate it when it’s like, ‘Oh, there’s only four good songs on that album,'” she adds. “When there’s an album where every song is as good as the next and every song feels special — those are the dream albums. I think that’s what I’m going for…[and] that’s hard to do, that takes time.”
Unlike in Fifth Harmony, Camilla is co-writing the songs for her album, and she says it’s been a struggle to convince her co-writers that she knew what she was doing.
“Every time I would go into a session, I don’t think anybody expected me to be able to write, and they’d be like, ‘I was thinking we could do something like this,’ and I’d be like, ‘Yeah, that’s cool, but I really want to write something…I have this idea and this title.'”
She adds, “When people were like, ‘Oh, that’s really good,’ it made me believe that, ‘Oh, my ideas were good.’ That’s happened more and more this year. I’m confident in my ideas and as an artist. Nobody can really be me for me.”
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