We all knew that the emergence of Camila Cabello, the solo star, was in the works, but the time has finally come for the next chapter in the former Fifth Harmony bandmate's career.
On Sunday, the 2017 Billboard Music Award performer took to social media to announce that her forthcoming solo album will be called The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving.
She also revealed the set’s lead single release date — this Friday. No word on the title of the cut.
Cabello's announcements arrived amidst a lengthy letter about how the project initially took form.
“The hurting the healing the loving is the story of my journey from darkness into light, from a time when I was lost to a time when I found myself again,” she wrote.
The 20-year-old singer explained that the entire project started with the second song fans will hear, called "I Have Question," which was written in a hotel bathroom on tour a little over a year ago.
"I was completely broken during that time, I was in the kind of pain that's uncomfortable to talk about, and it was the kind of chapter you never want to read out loud.... I couldn't write another song for 6 months because writing meant I had to feel everything, and I wasn't ready to do that yet.”
According to Cabello, it was sad song after sad song until she got sick of the lows and her music started getting happier until she reached her point of recovery.
"I realized i wasn't making music just to make an album anymore, I was making this music to heal,” she said. “It wasn't until I had made enough songs to listen back to and realized I could hear myself coming back through these songs.
“I didn't write it with the intention of delivering a message, but I realized the message was in the hurting, the healing, and the loving. i might have thought the hurting was my enemy before, but she became the best listener... I might have thought I was too impatient for the healing, and it did feel like sometimes she was taking forever, but I realized it made me appreciate her so much more when she arrived. and the loving, I wouldn't have known how beautiful she was if I couldn't miss her all that time."
Original article at iHeartRadio