Romance

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## Singles

1. "Shameless"

2. "Liar"

3. "Cry for Me"

4. "Easy"

5. "Living Proof"

6. "My Oh My"

***Romance*** is Camila Cabello's sophomore studio album. The album was released on December 6, 2019 by Epic Records. On June 21, 2019, "Señorita" with Shawn Mendes was released as the first single of Romance. On September 5, 2019 "Shameless" and "Liar" were released as the album's second and third singles. On October 4, 2019, the fourth single "Cry For Me" was released. One week later, the albums' fifth single "Easy" was released on October 11, 2019.

Camila finished recording *Romance* on October 31, and the next day submitted the masters for the album. On November 13, Cabello announced that the album will be released on December 6, 2019. On November 15, the pre-order was released along with the sixth single "Living Proof". The standard/first press CD's did not include the track 'My Oh My'. This is Camila's first explicit album, as the twelfth track "This Love" is marked as explicit.

## Background

Following the great success of Cabello's debut album, *Camila* (2018), which topped the *Billboard* 200 chart, Brian Lee and Louis Bell told to MTV that they are already looking ahead to Cabello's next project. Bell said he imagines she will work on her second album during her then-upcoming tour, saying they’ll send ideas back and forth from April until June when they’ll finally be able to get into the studio together. He wants to give the second album a "more mature progression," but ultimately, the new songs will depend on Cabello.

The album mainly focuses on love and Camila wanted to focus on that for this album, Camila immediately knew she wanted to name the album *Romance*.

Louis Bell said: "It's all about what's going on in her life, relationship-wise, everything. All of that stuff is going to factor into the whole theme of the album". Lee, meanwhile, thinks she could go any direction imaginable. "She knows all these indie bands; she could do an indie record," he said. "Her depth of what she knows musically is bigger than mine. She could do whatever she wants."

Cabello teased the album on December 6, 2018, One year before the release date, after posting a muted video of her at a studio with the caption "CC2. 🌙". In June 2019, Camila posted a snippet of a song on her social media., that snippet was later revealed to be "Easy" another snippet later revealed as "Living Proof" was teased later in the month. On August 7, Camila had a listening party with her fans at Epic Records.

On September 5, two singles for the album, "Shameless" and "Liar", were released. On the same day, Camila confirmed that the album was called *Romance* and that it would be released before 2020 begins. The album's first promotional single "Cry for Me" was released on October 4, and its second promotional single, "Easy" was released on October 11. A day later, she performed the two promotional singles on *Saturday Nights Live*.

Cabello finished recording *Romance* on October 31, and the next day submitted the masters for the album.

On November 15, the third single "Living Proof" was released along with the album's pre-order.

### Recording

On November 18, 2018, Cabello tweeted "MAKING NEW STUFF AND THINGS!!!" along with a picture of a polaroid with her at studio dated on October 16, 2018. On her Instagram story, she posed a picture of the files of cc2, named 'CC2 TRACKS'. Cabello finished recording *Romance* on October 31, 2019. A total of over 80 songs were written for the album.

## Promotion

### Singles

"Liar" and "Shameless" were released on September 5, 2019 as the lead singles from the album. "Shameless" peaked at number 60 and "Liar" at number 52 on the *Billboard* Hot 100. Both songs received a music video. The Henry Schofield-directed "Shameless" accompanied the songs' release and the video for "Liar" was released a week later and was directed by Dave Meyers. Cabello performed "Liar" on *The Graham Norton Show* on October 25, 2019.

"Cry For Me" and "Easy" were released as the promo singles on October 4 and 11, 2019, on Friday Which i had bad mental days of off stupid things in my head which these singles saved my life respectively. Cabello performed the songs on *Saturday Night Live* on October 12, 2019. "Easy" peaked at number 10 and "Cry for Me" at number 15 on *Billboard*'s Bubbling Under Hot 100 singles chart.

On November 15, 2019, *Romance* was made available for pre-orders and the single "Living Proof" was released alongside. The song was promoted with several live performances including at the 2019 American Music Awards, *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* and *The Ellen DeGeneres Show*. The song received a music video directed by Alan Ferguson which was released ahead of her American Music Awards performance.

"My Oh My" featuring DaBaby was released as the album's fourth single on January 6, 2020. Cabello and DaBaby performed the song on *The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon* on December 12, 2019. It has currently peaked at number 13 on the *Billboard* Hot 100 becoming the highest charting single on the chart from the album.

In addition, "Señorita", Cabello's duet with Shawn Mendes released in June 2019, was originally included in the deluxe edition of Mendes' self-titled third studio album. It was later also included on *Romance*. "Señorita" debuted at number two on the *Billboard* Hot 100 on July 6, 2019. It later peaked at number one on the chart issue dated August 31, 2019 becoming Mendes' first US number-one song and Cabello's second after "Havana".

### Tour

Cabello officially announced The Romance Tour on November 13, 2019. The tour is set to begin in May 26, 2020 and is also set to go through Europe and North America. The tour was set to go across North America and Europe starting in May 2020, but was later postponed due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

## Trivia

* "First Man" was the first song written for the album, and "Used To This" was the last to be written.
* This is Cabello's longest album.
* The album is Cabello's first explicit album.

## Track listing

### Notes

* **^[a]** signifies an additional producer
* **^[m]** signifies a miscellaneous producer
* **^[b]** signifies also a vocal producer
* **^[v]** signifies a vocal producer
* "Living Proof" contains a sample of "Meter Connection", a recording by Andy Jones for The Africa Heartwood Project.
* "Liar" interpolates "All Night Long (All Night)" written by Lionel Richie, "Karma" written by Marina Diamandis, Ben Berger, Ryan McMahon, Jack Patterson and Ryan Rabin, "Nuestro Planeta" written by Kali Uchis, Bryan Chaverra, Kevin Londoño, Andrés Londoño, Martha Llorente and Jairo Torres and "All That She Wants" written by Jenny Berggren, Jonas Berggren, Malin Berggren and Ulf Ekberg.
* "Feel It Twice" interpolates "Back to You" written by Louis Tomlinson, Nicholas Gale, Pablo Bowman, Richard Boardman and Sarah Blanchard.
* "Cry For Me" contains excerpts from "Gemini Feed" written by Jillian Banks and Christopher Taylor and "Ex-Factor" written by Lauryn Hill, Robert Diggs, Gary Grice, Russell Jones, Clifford Smith, Corey Woods, Dennis Coles, Jason Hunter, Lamont Hawkins, Elgin Turner, Darryl Hill, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, Marvin Hamlisch and Labi Siffre.
* "My Oh My" contains a elements of "Llaman a La Puerta" written by Alejandro Guillermo Marambio Altamirano.

### Scrapped Tracks

* "Anyone" - Camila mentioned on her Twitter that it was her Mom's favourite song on the album in mid 2019.
* "Coulda Been Yours" - Two snippets have leaked from this song, first one in 2020 and the second in 2021.
* "Eyes on You" - The full solo demo leaked September 3th, 2020. On March 2nd 2021, the version with Charlie Puth's vocals was leaked.
* "Fly" - The song was talked about in one of Camila's friends live streams in November 2018.
* "Love Someone" - It was registered on GEMA
* "Not Killin' It Today" - The song was leaked alongside the demo of "First Man" in October 2018.
* "Obsession" - The song was added onto Camila's BMI in October 2019. A writers demo is on Soundcloud.
* "Same" - The song was added onto Camila's BMI in 2019.
* "Taxi" - The full song leaked September 2th, 2020. It was the lead single but it got scrapped due to Camila breaking up with Matthew Hussey.
* "Terrified"- The full song leaked September 3rd, 2020.
* "Thief Looks Like An Angel" - A snippet leaked on 5th February 2021. The full leaked on 8th February 2021.
* "Run Into You" - It was registered on GEMA.
* "Same" - It was registered on Songview in late 2019.
* "So Romance" - Rumored to be an early outtake.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 [1]
2. ↑ *Twitter* - CC2 first teaser
3. ↑ *Twitter* - Polaroid of Camila at studio (November 18, 2018)
4. ↑ Camila Cabello Announces Singles 'Shameless' And 'Liar' Out Thursday
5. ↑ Camila Cabello Launched Two Singles At The Same Time — Now The Public Has Chosen Which One Stays
6. ↑ Camila Cabello's new album Romance: First listen preview
7. ↑ Camila Cabello's "Liar" Video Is Super Bizarre, But That's Why You'll Love It
8. ↑ Camila Cabello - Shameless
9. ↑ Hear Camila Cabello Mourn an Ex on New Track ‘Cry For Me’
10. ↑ Camila Cabello drops new single "Easy"
11. ↑ See When Camila Cabello's New Song 'Cry For Me' Is Dropping
12. ↑ Watch Camila Cabello Perform "Cry For Me" & "Easy" On SNL
13. ↑ 5 Things We Want From Camila Cabello's 'Romance' Album
14. ↑ Camila Cabello Unveils New Song 'Living Proof': Stream It Now
15. ↑ Singles To Radio
16. ↑ The American Music Awards | Camila Cabello Performs 'Living Proof' Live at the 2019 AMAs
17. ↑ Camila Cabello: Living Proof
18. ↑ Camila Cabello Performs 'Living Proof'
19. ↑ Camila Cabello's 'Living Proof' Music Video Arrives Ahead of 2019 AMAs: Watch
20. ↑ DaBaby Joins Camila Cabello for "My Oh My" Performance on 'Tonight Show'
21. ↑ Hot/Modern/AC Future Releases | Hot Adult Contemporary Rock Songs and Release Dates
22. ↑ Camila Cabello & DaBaby Hit the Quad for Flirty, School Daze 'My Oh My' on 'Tonight Show': Watch
23. ↑ Camila Cabello Announces Sophomore Album *Romance*,’ North American Tour
24. ↑ Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello's 'Señorita' Hits No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
25. ↑ Camila Cabello Sets Release Date for 'Romance,' Announces Tour Dates
26. ↑ Camila Cabello tickets
27. ↑ "Camila Cabello tickets". Livenation.nl.
28. ↑ Aniftos, Rania (March 24, 2020). "Camila Cabello Postpones Tour Due to Coronavirus". *Billboard*. Retrieved on March 24, 2020.
29. ↑ Camila Cabello Opens Up About Falling for Shawn Mendes — and Their San Francisco PDA — in New Song
30. ↑ *Romance* on Amazon.com
31. ↑ Romance CD Album
32. ↑ *Romance* by Camila Cabello on Apple Music
33. ↑ camila on Twitter: "she’s sitting next to me, she says her favorite is a song called anyone"
34. ↑ Obsession (Demo) by Alex Zink on Soundcloud
35. ↑ YouTube - Camila Cabello - Taxi (FULL SNIPPET)