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Oh, hey there.
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Hey!
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I'm here to interview your daughter.
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Oh, please, come in.
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She's writing the...
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Alright, let's do it.
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Oh my god, hi!
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I didn't mean to interrupt your practicing.
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It's all good, how are you?
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How are you?
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I'm good.
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I'm so happy to be here.
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73 questions.
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I'm so excited to see you.
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I've watched so many of these videos.
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I can't believe you're here.
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This is so cool.
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I've watched so many of your videos.
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Oh, thanks.
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This is actually happening.
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All right, let's do it.
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This is happening.
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OK.
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So what are you playing right now?
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Oh, I was just playing some just kind of, just some chord progression to see if I can come up with any, you know, key little song idea.
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It's the next hit.
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Oh, I don't know.
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I didn't really come up with anything good, but.
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OK.
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Do you have to be in a certain mood to write?
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I think there just has to be some kind of inner storm.
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You gotta be feeling something.
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And what is the writing process like?
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Well, I usually have my laptop here, and I'll just kind of like write a lyric.
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Let's say it was like, your lips are like pink flowers.
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And I would write, your lips are like pink flowers, lyrics.
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And then I would kind of, I'll find like all my lyrics, because they're all saved under the lyrics tag.
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And so then I just have a bunch of those ideas on my laptop.
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Wow.
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Going digitized.
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Going digitized and then I just kind of try and find some chord progression that sounds like what I'm trying to say.
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How do you know when a song is finished?
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You just know.
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It's like falling in love.
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You just know when you love that person.
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You know, it's like you can feel when the puzzles fit together and it's perfect and you've captured everything.
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You've painted everything like a perfect picture and then you can tell
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when it's off and you need to work more on it.
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Do you get more attached to some songs over others?
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Absolutely. Which ones?
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On my last album, First Man.
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Ooh.
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Yeah.
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Now based on your tour and your latest album, Romance, you've been thinking a lot about romance.
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Is that right?
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I've always been thinking a lot about romance.
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Definitely a hopeless romantic.
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I love love.
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Do you think you have to be in love to write good love songs?
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Not necessarily.
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But I think when you're in love, the detail that you get in the songs is just, you can't, nobody can make that up in their imagination.
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You know, the way the person's shirt smelled, the expression on their face, you know, the way the sky looked It's like those details have to come from real life.
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Speaking of romance, what's the most romantic trait that a guy can have?
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Um, kindness.
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I'm a sucker for just a kind, good man.
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And what's the most romantic thing that has ever been done for you?
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A lady never tells.
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Aww, you got away from that one.
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So Camila, obviously your songs are so personal.
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Yeah.
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What's the most meaningful song?
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Ooh, um, definitely First Man because it's a song I wrote about my dad.
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And I remember just crying, writing it, picturing his face the whole day.
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And speaking of that song, I saw your performance at the Grammys.
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Oh, you killed it.
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Thanks.
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And it was so special to see you sing Dear Dad like that.
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Thanks.
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It felt really special.
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Did he have any idea you were going to do that?
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He didn't know until the day before.
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And he was so nervous.
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We did the red carpet together, and he was like literally slapping himself in the face, like taking deep breaths.
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My dad is like, he is not like that.
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So I was like, I couldn't believe I was like, oh my God, he was so nervous.
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My mom and dad are both really camera shy, so I'm surprised my mom is doing this today.
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How nervous were you before singing to him?
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I get so nervous before every award show.
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I get so nervous that after every performance, I get acid reflux so bad that I can't stand up.
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But honestly, when I saw him sitting there, I was like, man, nothing else here really matters
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but me telling my dad how much I love him in front of everybody.
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Like, I just, this is about him.
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This isn't even about me or the Grammys or anything, you know?
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Okay, Camille, why don't you tell us why we're here in the English countryside?
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Tell the audience.
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Do you want to know?
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I am doing a musical remake of Cinderella.
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Do you actually want to go out there because it's really beautiful?
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Let's go.
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Hey, so you're Cinderella.
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Clearly you're excited.
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How are you enjoying this?
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I'm honestly in love with it.
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I've fallen in love with it.
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Anybody
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that knows me knows my absolute dream is to have to
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make an inspiration playlist full of Disney songs to get ready for work.
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I mean, how amazing is that?
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I want to live in that world all the time.
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Well, now that you're living in this world, can you give me your best British accent?
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Ooh, ooh, I don't know.
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What do you think?
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I mean, I feel like British people would say it's rubbish, but I think I've watched maybe enough Harry Potter to maybe slightly get away with it.
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I don't know.
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Regardless of what the Brits say, I think that sounded amazing.
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Thank you.
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Good thing I'm not doing a British accent in the movie, otherwise I would get in trouble.
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Camilla, can you tell me something about you that people do not know?
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Ooh, I can tell you three things.
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I don't know why I'm still speaking in a British accent.
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Okay.
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Okay, I actually eat a banana with every single meal.
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It doesn't matter what it is.
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It doesn't matter if it's pasta, a sandwich, rice and beans, scrambled eggs, pancakes, pizza.
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Eat bananas with everything.
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I can only sleep with socks on because I feel like the boogeyman will lick my feet if not.
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And I had a tick in the third grade where I couldn't stop flaring my nostrils
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and that I have never confessed publicly before.
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Well I haven't noticed don't worry.
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Oh well I don't do it anymore.
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Okay can you tell me something not about you that a lot of people don't know?
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Oh I learned this today.
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Horses sleep standing up.
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Oh that is so interesting.
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Crazy right?
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Let's go outside.
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Let's go out there, after you.
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Thank you.
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What's your go-to drink order?
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Alcoholic or non-alcoholic?
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Either.
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Tequila, alcoholically.
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And non-alcoholic, honestly water and sometimes, sometimes lemonade.
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All right.
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I'm feeling crazy.
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OK.
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Go-to dessert order?
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Chocolate, cake, anything.
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Chocolate.
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Podcast or audio books?
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Audio books.
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Instagram or TikTok?
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TikTok, because there's really funny videos on there.
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Who's your music icon?
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Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince, you know, the undeniable obvious ones.
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Do you remember the first song you memorized all the lyrics to?
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Cinderella by the Cheetah Girls.
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And who would you say were your earliest inspirations?
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I was a huge Disney Channel fan.
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So, you know, when we got cable TV, after we didn't have cable TV, I was like, Disney Channel's the greatest thing ever in the entire world, which it is and was.
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But, you know, Cheetah Girls, High School Musical, Hannah Montana is really the reason that I'm here.
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I was like in my own Disney Channel movie in my bathroom all the time.
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We are getting super countryside with bucolic ponds.
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It's really beautiful, right?
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That plant is not real.
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I wish it was.
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I got here and I was like, I'm pretty sure I'm in Pandora in Avatar.
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But it is beautiful, right?
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It is.
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When did you know that you wanted to be a performer?
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Honestly, the day that I auditioned for X Factor.
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Because before that, that was the first time I ever really performed in front of a large group of people.
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I was so shy.
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I didn't even perform in front of my family before then.
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And that was the first time I was like, oh, this is kind of cool.
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Like, I can do this without passing out.
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It didn't seem like that was your first time.
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Yeah.
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What is the hardest part about performing to a live audience?
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Working through nerves and making nerves your friend and making them,
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turning them into fuel has been something that I've really learned to do the past few years because I've definitely, like I told you, I still get super,
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super nervous because I care so much about it.
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So, like, really getting that under control.
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How does the vibe of an audience affect your performance?
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It's everything.
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I mean, I feel like I've performed in both extremes.
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I've performed in front of an audience that absolutely did not care about me, and in the beginning I was like...
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But then you're like, you know what?
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I'm going to try and connect with everybody here and just do my best.
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But then it's like when I'm performing for my fans on tour that they're like, I feel so much love from them, and they're like singing the lyrics, and they're crying, and I'm like,
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Everybody here is my family, and we are all one, and I love this family.
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That's so sweet.
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It's the best euphoric.
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What's the most memorable fan interaction that you've ever had in your life?
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Ooh, recently I was in a meet and greet and I was talking to one of my fans, her name is Steph.
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She was going through a really bad, you know, painful period of anxiety.
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And actually at the time I was going through a really bad period of anxiety too.
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And we were talking about it and I just remember hugging her and I was crying and we were like, I just felt really, you know, connected with her.
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And a few months later she told me
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that she was doing a lot better and now I'm doing a lot better too.
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And just having an honest conversation about that, I just felt like, you know, it's like one of those moments where I was, you know, really connecting with someone.
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That's really, really sweet.
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Um, wait, can I show you something really cool?
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Yeah, let's do it.
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Come here.
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Okay.
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Gryffindor or Slytherin?
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Gryffindor!
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And I definitely rig all the Harry Potter quizzes to get Gryffindor, even though I know I'm a Hufflepuff.
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Okay.
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Hufflepuffs are good, too.
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Uh, Rachel or Phoebe?
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Um, ah!
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Uh, Phoebe.
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Uh, Selina or Whitney?
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Uh, the litany.
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I don't know.
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I've got to pick both.
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I heard that you don't curse in front of your audiences.
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Tell me why.
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Because my sister's ten years younger than me, and when I started this I was 15 and she was five.
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And, you know, obviously she's around me when I'm working a lot and singing, you know, singing my songs.
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And I just didn't want to, I just didn't, I don't know, I'm just really mindful of her and therefore like all my kid audience.
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It's just a personal choice.
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I just want to, yeah.
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What's your favorite curse word anyway?
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Uh, st.
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Okay, what are you going to show me?
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Do you want to see it?
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Look, there's koi fish in this pond.
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Oh, there it is.
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Did you see them over there?
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Yeah, right there.
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Did you know that koi fish live to be 200 years old?
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You are full of trivia.
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Especially if you feed them.
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You want to feed them?
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Oh, my God.
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This is great.
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I've never done this before.
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Yeah.
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I'm a mess.
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One, two, three.
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Fish feeder.
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Eat that fish.
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Oh, yeah.
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We'll feed an app.
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Okay.
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Camila, I heard you were really shy as a child.
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Oh, yeah.
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Is this true?
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Oh, my God, yeah.
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Literally, I would cry when people sang happy birthday to me.
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I was so overwhelmed.
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I would go to family parties and get so overwhelmed that I just started crying.
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Well, you overcame that pretty well.
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Well, I still kind of do it, but you know, but it's, I keep it more under control now.
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Just kidding.
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But what gave you the courage to sing in spite of social anxiety like that?
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I think it's just because, honestly, it's just what I love to do most in the world.
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And I was like, well, if I want to do this, then I need to overcome this.
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And, you know, I feel like I have.
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I think that I'm introverted by nature and can still get a little bit shy sometimes, but I think that's normal and something that you could totally, you know, you could totally control.
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Yeah.
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Whose work has really, really made a profound impact on you?
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Ooh, um, Beyoncé.
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I spent the last whole year, before every performance, I would listen to Homecoming.
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And just watching that documentary,
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it just felt so meaningful and important and connected to humanity and what's real in the world.
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And I was just really inspired by her strength.
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And I think that she's incredible.
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Do you ever read press about yourself?
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Absolutely not.
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Never.
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I would never.
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Nobody could ever make me do that make me do that.
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Why?
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Why?
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Why?
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Why?
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Because it just hurts.
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It just, you know, it hurts my soul.
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And I know that if I want to be happy and if I want to be myself and stay, like, stay true to myself and true to people,
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I know that I can't read those things about myself because how could it not hurt?
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It would hurt everybody and anybody.
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No, it's true.
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What's the thing that you're most proud of off stage?
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The thing that I'm most proud of off stage, I think that I have a,
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I think that But the most important thing to me is to do the right thing and do the good thing.
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And I feel like I have a good sense of, like I think that's the only thing that matters to me in the world.
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Even if I'm unsuccessful and fail at everything, if I know that I'm, you know, treating people the right way and doing, you know, following kind of my morals,
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then I feel proud of myself as a person.
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Now you've spoken directly to dreamers from the stage.
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Yeah.
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What's something you want dreamers and immigrants to hear today?
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you are not alone and that you are supported and heard and seen by a lot of people.
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And besides that issue, what's a cause that's near and dear to your heart?
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The earth and climate change and everything that's going on right now and just being, you know, just what that's going to do in the future generations.
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Camila, tea's ready.
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Oh my God, do you want to have some chamomile relaxing delicious tea?
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Oh my gosh, it's so British of you.
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I know.
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You've turned British.
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Actually, English breakfast would be the British thing of me.
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But chamomile is kind of my favorite, not going to lie.
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Oh my God.
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What?
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There's ducks over there and we're going to see them.
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There's a family of ducks.
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Oh my God.
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Okay.
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Oh my gosh.
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Here's the truth, right?
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So I came into this house and they were like, there's ducks every morning and I've never, ever seen them.
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I have my duck food ready and I've never seen them until today.
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So you're like my good luck charm.
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I'm so lucky.
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Oh my God.
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I'm a lucky duck.
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Oh my God.
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We're lucky ducks.
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But we're going to keep answering questions.
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Okay.
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Kicks or heels?
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Uh, kicks.
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Smoky eye or pastel palette?
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Whoa!
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Oh my god!
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This guy...
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Oh my god!
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Thank god I'm not like my grandma who has an actual fear of birth.
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Oh my gosh.
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Oh my god.
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I did not sign up for this, Camila.
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They're shy.
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You want to talk about shy, then they're shy.
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Okay, wow.
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That was really cool though, huh?
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That was beautiful.
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It's kind of magical.
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Okay.
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We have to get back to the questions.
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Okay.
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Oh, sweating.
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Me too.
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Dress her pants.
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Dress.
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Mini or maxi?
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Uh, maxi?
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Maxi.
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Leather or lace?
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Uh, lace.
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Would you rather swim in a beach, or do you imagine yourself skiing in the Alpines?
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Honestly, no. I'm from Miami, and even this being outside fully bundled is too cold for me.
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Alright.
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Whose fashion advice do you listen to before anyone else?
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My mom's, because she always tells me when I look like a homeless person when I'm leaving the house, and she's like, you cannot do that.
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Who's your favorite designer?
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Uh, I like Chanel.
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I like Chanel.
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Which artist's style do you most admire?
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Rihanna.
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And I bet even Rihanna would say Rihanna.
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Alright.
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Do you have any good luck charms?
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Eugene Fitzherbert, my dog.
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Ooh, your dog.
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Yes.
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Yeah.
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What kind of breed of dog is he?
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He is a...
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Okay, here's the truth.
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He's a Pomeranian and I usually always, always, always like big dogs, but he kind of won my heart.
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Can I meet him?
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He's not here.
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He's in Miami.
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Ah, what a bummer.
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I know.
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Now, it's a very unique name for a dog.
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Thanks.
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And Eugene is named after a Disney character.
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The Prince from Tangled, whose name is Flynn Rider, but secretly his name is Eugene Fitzherbert, and I always want to name my dogs Disney characters.
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Thank you for clarifying that.
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Absolutely.
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Hey, we should get some tea.
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It's getting cold, yep.
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Okay, so besides tea, what other British customs have you become familiar with?
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Have you ever had a digestive?
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No. It's like a really famous British cookie, and it has chocolate on one side.
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It's really good.
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We're gonna have that with our tea right now.
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All right.
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Dip it.
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It melts in your mouth.
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It's incredible.
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Also, Cadbury's.
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Hey, my lot.
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Chocolates, um...
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If you insist.
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If you insist.
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Chocolate buttons are really good.
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Fish and chips dunked in a lot of vinegar.
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That's what they don't tell you, is that you gotta dunk it in vinegars.
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Nando's with peri-peri sauce.
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I'm moving here.
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You are loving it here.
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I love it.
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All right, but besides England, what country has the best cuisine?
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I think Italy.
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Yeah, I just love to pig out over some Italian food.
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It's actually one of the most glorious things in the world to me, personally.
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And what's on a Camilla Cabello curated menu?
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Um, I would say breakfast, huge breakfast, pancakes, chilaquiles, uh, you know, uh, all of that stuff.
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Lunch, Cuban food, rice, plantains, beans, dinner, huge Italian food, lots of cheese, Mexican, Cuban, Italian, Indian.
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Those are my favorite foods right now.
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All right.
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Now, I notice you're sewing.
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Yeah, sew what?
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Get it?
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Just forget I said that.
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Just edit that out.
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We're not going to edit that out.
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Why are you sewing, Camilla?
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It's actually movie prep, and you will know when you see it.
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Is Cinderella sewing in a movie?
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I won't say anything else.
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You've already gotten a lot out of it.
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You've already gotten a lot out of it.
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You've already gotten 73 pieces of information out of me.
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All right, so what are you most excited about in this role?
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Tell me.
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That Cinderella inspires me.
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I love living in her magical world where she believes in dreams
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and she believes in love and she believes in everything good because I want to be like that.
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I want to be that as much as I can.
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What do you most have in common with Cinderella?
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I think just that.
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I think that we want to see the magic in life and we will relentlessly keep fighting for our dreams.
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I don't think we have enough mom in this episode.
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Sinu!
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I agree.
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What question should I ask your daughter?
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What is your favorite thing about our relationship?
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My favorite thing about our relationship is that you're, I mean, she's my best friend.
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And you are, I always say this, but you're the better half of my brain.
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And I just feel like I want to, if I can get to where you are as a woman, I will be really happy in life because I think
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that you're so strong and so kind and so grounded in what's important and at the same time so full of hope.
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And I think that you're really magical.
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And not to get emo, but I will.
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But yeah, I love you.
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Love you, bro.
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That is so sweet.
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You are definitely selling that to wipe the tears off of my face.
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Yeah.
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There you go.
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What's the biggest lesson that you've learned from your mother?
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My biggest lesson, I would say above all, she's always reminded me that we only have one life and that it's your job to fight for your happiness.
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It's your responsibility to fight for your happiness and nobody and nothing will do that for you.
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You have to fight for it yourself.
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And so, yeah, I think that's the biggest lesson.
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But obviously I get one every 20 minutes because that's how often I have my nervous breakdowns as a 22-year-old.
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One thing that blows my mind is that you're an international pop star, but you're also one of the most down-to-earth people.
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Thanks.
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How do you pull that off?
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I really think I just got lucky with just, I'm surrounded by people that, like I said, just keep me close to what's real and keep me,
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you know, like the John Mayer song, Where the Light Is.
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And, you know, it's human sometimes to fall off that path and to, you know, get caught up in things that don't matter and aren't real,
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but what's real is really love and being good to people.
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And that's very simple.
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And I think that the people around me constantly remind me
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that and are keeping me in that direction and make me motivated to stay in that direction.
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And a few of your music videos have over a billion views.
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That's one-seventh of the planet.
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That's so weird and crazy.
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How does it make you feel when you look at these view counts?
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It's weird.
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I mean, it's crazy because I just think of myself as a little girl
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and I would never picture me being able to do something like that.
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So it just goes to show you, shy kids, you can do anything.
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You hear that, shy kids?
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Yes.
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Okay, now, your upbringing, split your time between Cuba and Mexico City.
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How did you feel about moving back and forth so much growing up?
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Well, I don't remember because I was so young, but I asked my mom this the other day, and she was like, yeah, I remember you feeling sad because you would be surrounded by a group of people in Cuba, and then we would have to leave to Mexico,
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and you wouldn't see them again.
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So I imagine that it was kind of hard for me, but yeah, I don't really remember.
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What is the most Cubana of you?
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Wow, Spanish.
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Yeah, you like that.
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Very impressive.
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The most Cubana of me is that I'm very affectionate, very entomely.
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Very, like a koala.
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I want to cuddle things.
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What is the most Mexican thing of you?
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The most Mexican thing of me is my sense of humor.
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Last question.
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Question number 73.
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I'm so sorry, this is Breaking Mi Corazon.
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Breaking Mi Corazon, también.
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All right, last question.
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Yeah?
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What are the chances of me getting a cameo in Cinderella?
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Prince Charming, what do you think?
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I wish I could do that for you, man.
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I wish I could.
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But you know what I can do?
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Yeah.
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I could take you on the set of Cinderella, and we could see the ducks before we go.
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OK, off to see the ducks.
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Let's go.
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Let's go.
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I'll bring the sew.
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Yes.
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Sew and go.
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Off we go.
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Off we go, sew.
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And you know...
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Vocabulary and speaking notes for this lesson
This B1 speaking lesson is built on the video “73 Questions With Camila Cabello”. This video has 517 sentences and 4093 words to shadow. The speech runs for 19:59. The speaker talks fast, about 205 words per minute, so expect linked and reduced sounds. 82% of the words are among the 3,000 most common in English; the rest is worth studying before you start. 102 of its 517 sentences are questions, so it is good practice for question intonation and short answers.
Key vocabulary in this video
The 15 most advanced words in the video, with pronunciation and meaning:
| Word | Pronunciation | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| duck noun | /dʌk/ | Any of certain aquatic birds of the family Anatidae, having a flat bill and webbed feet, distinguished from swans and geese by generally being smaller and… |
| romance noun | /roʊˈmæn(t)s/ | An intimate relationship between two people; a love affair. |
| maxi adjective | Having a hemline at ankle length. | |
| sew verb | /soʊ/ | To use a needle to pass thread repeatedly through (pieces of fabric) in order to join them together. |
| gosh | /ɡɑːʃ/ | A mild expression of surprise or enthusiasm. |
| alcoholic noun | /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/ | A person who is addicted to alcohol. |
| accent noun | /ækˈsɛnt/ | A higher-pitched or stronger (louder or longer) articulation of a particular syllable of a word or phrase in order to distinguish it from the others or to… |
| magical adjective | /ˈmæd͡ʒ.ɪ.kəl/ | Of, relating to, or by means of magic. |
| camomile noun | /ˈkæ.məˌmaɪl/ | Matricaria chamomilla, German chamomile or Hungarian chamomile, with fragrant flowers used for tea, and as an herbal remedy. |
| digitize verb | /ˈdɪd͡ʒɪtaɪz/ | To represent something (such as an image or sound) as a structured sequence of binary digits. |
| dreamer noun | /ˈdɹimɚ/ | One who dreams. |
| overwhelm verb | /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/ | To engulf, surge over and submerge. |
| pancake noun | /ˈpæn.keɪk/ | An thin batter cake similar to a crepe, typically unleavened. |
| peri noun | /ˈpɪə.ɹi/ | A sprite or supernatural being. |
| dunk verb | /dʌŋk/ | To submerge briefly in a liquid. |
Phrasal verbs you will hear
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| come up with verb | To manage to produce, deliver, or present (something) by inventing, creating, thinking of, or obtaining it. |
| go out verb | To leave, especially a building. |
| go through verb | To travel from one end of something to the other. |
| stand up verb | To rise from a lying or sitting position. |
| fall off verb | To become detached or to drop from. |
| fit together verb | To put the appropriate parts of (something) into a whole; to combine pieces that go together to create a finished object. |
| get away with verb | To get away, or escape, taking (something) with one. |
| get back to verb | Return to (an activity) |
Sentences worth repeating
Short, complete lines from the video that you can reuse in everyday conversation:
- It's all good, how are you?
- How do you know when a song is finished?
- What's your go-to drink order?
- What's your favorite curse word anyway?
- Which artist's style do you most admire?
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect continuous have/has been + -ing — an action that started earlier and is still going on | you've been thinking · I've always been thinking |
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | I've watched · you've captured · You've painted |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | been done · was just really inspired · are supported |
| Superlatives the -est / the most … — the top or bottom of a group | your latest · the most romantic · the most meaningful |
Pronunciation to watch
The speaker uses 129 contractions and reduced forms, such as I'm, don't, you're. Say them the short way, as you hear them.
- The “sh” and “zh” sounds: gosh /ɡɑːʃ/, progression /pɹəˈɡɹɛʃən/, affectionate /əˈfɛkʃənət/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/, audition /ɑˈdɪʃən/
- Long words — get the stress right: alcoholic /ˌæl.kəˈhɔ.lɪk/, affectionate /əˈfɛkʃənət/, chilaquiles /ˌt͡ʃi.ləˈki.leɪs/, introverted /ˈɪn.tɹəˌvɜːɹ.təd/, preposition /ˌpɹɛpəˈzɪʃən/
How to practise with this video
- Listen to the whole video once without speaking and note the words you do not know.
- Start at 0.75× speed, shadow it sentence by sentence, then go back to normal speed once it feels easy.
- Record yourself and compare with the original, paying attention to words like duck, romance, maxi.
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.