Dove Cameron earned her first solo hit on the Billboard Scorching 100 together with her scorching observe “Boyfriend,” however because it seems, the tune was near by no means seeing the sunshine of day. The Disney Channel alum appeared on the Monday (March 27) episode of The Tonight Present Starring Jimmy Fallon and revealed she didn’t assume a lot of the observe upon recording it.
In keeping with Cameron, “Boyfriend” was a results of being urged by her label to work on some music.
“I had simply finished a brilliant small black field theater tour the place I used to be simply kind of assembly my followers, touring round, kind of determining what it means to carry out reside. We ended, my voice was shot and the very subsequent day, my label was like, ‘You need to begin working in your album,’” she shared. “So we acquired into the studio instantly, and we wrote ‘Boyfriend’ in two hours, and was like, ‘That is unhealthy.’ I recorded it in 20 minutes and we simply put it away. I didn’t actually assume something of it, after which it turned out to be the factor that gave me a shock second profession.”
“Boyfriend” made waves on the charts in 2022, making its debut on the Scorching 100 in February earlier than peaking at No. 16 by June. The observe spent a complete of 24 weeks on the chart.
As for what’s in retailer for the Descendants actress, she had a small replace for followers: “I’m truly engaged on my debut album just about day-after-day now,” Cameron shared, noting that she has written almost 100 songs from the unnamed challenge and that the following single off the file will characteristic Diplo.
Watch Cameron discuss concerning the story of “Boyfriend” within the video above.
