Camila Cabello speaks out on writing songs about ex Shawn Mendes and Sabrina Carpenter after love triangle

Camila Cabello gave a candid interview with Nylon magazinetouching her on/off boyfriend Shawn Mendes and appearing to allude to Sabrina Carpenter – who he dated shortly after Camila.

The 27-year-old pop star also reflected on her time in girl group Fifth Harmony, noting that “conflict resolution” was necessary in that scenario.

Camila and Shawn dated from 2019 to 2021 and briefly reconciled in April 2023 after reuniting at Coachella, until splitting again in June 2023; he was in a relationship with Sabrina from January 2023 to April 2023.

While she also didn’t drop a name in the Nylon interview, she did say that she wrote the sexually charged song June Gloom about a love interest dating a new person and Camila asking a NSFW question in the song about the new girl – about someone she had just been ‘hanging out’ with – meaning Shawn.

As she has grown older, Camila has looked back on her time – 2012 to 2016 with the band – with compassion.

She explained that she doesn’t know if the fear she felt during her time in the group stemmed from her teenage years or if it was in fact “more than any human being should have to endure.”

The star showed off short locks during the photoshoot for the magazine, with barely-there bodysuits and thigh-high boots.

Camila didn’t mention Shawn or Sabrina on her album C, XOXO, but she did write a number of songs about him – with Sabrina also mentioned in the song June Gloom.

In the song, Camila – who wrote all the songs on the album – sings about their on/off relationship: ‘Is this ever over? / I guess I’ll just poke around and find out.’

She alludes to Sabrina with the lyrics, “She’s cool, I heard / Won’t be surprised when I saw the pics,” before asking a very sexually explicit question about her.

Camila released her album C, XOXO on June 28, 2024.

Soon after, Sabrina released a sassy song about Camila and Shawn called Taste, released on her new album Short n’ Sweet on August 23, 2024 – with the pop star even casting Jenna Ortega to star in the music video.

Sabrina’s song is about being the rebound for someone getting back at his ex – while her ‘taste’ is still focused on him.

“I heard you guys are back together and if that’s true / You’ll just have to taste me when he kisses you,” Sabrina sings.

Camila told the magazine that she wrote June Gloom “after I hung out [with the song’s subject].’

He added: ‘I went into the studio the next day and said, “Jasper, can you play me some beats?” He was like, “This one, this one,” and he skipped “June Gloom.” I thought, “Oh wait! Go back!”

She revealed that she kicked Jasper out of the studio when she wrote the song because, she explained, she knew she would be “intimate” and “didn’t want anyone.” [there]and didn’t want to “sing about feeling super horny, but like this guy is here,” she said.

‘I wrote it so quickly because everything is so personal to me. I was like, “I’m writing this for you, b***h!”‘

She clarified what she said immediately afterwards about who she called “b***h”: “Oh. B***h sounds like I’m talking about a girl. I just don’t want them to think I’m a girl-on-girl kind of guy. Can we say, “It’s about you, motherf*****.”

During her time at Fifth Harmony, Camila said she struggled “more than” a normal teenager should.

Reflecting on her time in the girl group – which was formed in 2012 for The [in that situation].’

Adding, ‘I think conflict resolution is very important, especially when it comes to a group. These are skills you don’t have when you are 16 years old. How do you deal with being left out?’

‘How do you deal with jealousy? How do you deal with this without hurting yourself or others.’

Britney Spears called Camila her “girl crush” on her Instagram in October; she was a judge on X Factor when Camila was a contestant.

“All I want to do is make Britney Spears laugh,” Camila said.

When people compared her new sound for C, XOXO to Charli XCX, Camila said it stung because she says people weren’t listening to the music.

The star said she’s a big fan of Charli XCX, but there’s “more to the album” than just hyper pop.

Camila said her album C, .

Camila added that the album feels “like what it is to be a Pisces.”

Camila is featured in the latest issue of Nylon, which will be released on Friday, December 6.

She was photographed by Ryan Saradjola, styled by EJ Briones, hair by Danielle Priano, makeup by Patrick Ta, set designer Elaine Winter, manicure by Pika.

Production by Jung Kim, talent booking by Special Projects, video by Devin O’Neill and Konstantin Yel, director of photography Alex Pollack, editor-in-chief Lauren McCarthy, SVP Fashion Tiffany Reid and SVP Creative Karen Hibbert.