“I literally went into the bathroom and cried,” she recalls. Recording the new album allowed her to live out another musical dream in working with superproducer Max Martin and his camp. Both of those are great and both can live.”Ĭabello notes that Fifth Harmony is currently “pretty far along” in recording their sophomore LP and follow-up to their debut, Reflection, which she hopes will be released “at the top of the year,” though nothing is confirmed. The second album is coming out, and I also did something to express my musical interest with another artist. “I don’t really believe in music having any sort of rulebook. “We are very different, and I think that the healthiest thing in a group like that is to let ourselves explore,” she says. “I am very lucky that we wrote the song because I also got a really good friendship out of that,” Cabello states.Īs for her girl group Fifth Harmony, Cabello’s solo jaunt doesn’t mean she’s leaving them behind. “I knew the song, though.” Though writing the song caused Cabello and Mendes to get into a “shitload of fights,” as Mendes remembers it, they consider each other to be close friends.

“When Camila did the ‘I know, I know, I know,’ I don’t think she had even heard before, which was funny,” Mendes says with a laugh.

This is a completely different thing!'”Īnother reference within the song’s lyrics was also unintentional, though it ended up giving Bill Withers a songwriting credit. “I remember while we were recording, we knew that it was a movie title because one of our friends showed us the trailer for it.” The pair looked to see if they could get any lyrical inspiration from the movie, but the song and film didn’t exactly connect. “When we were writing, I remember one of us just kind of blurted out the phrase ‘I know what you did last summer,'” Cabello says. It’s about finding out that somebody had been cheating on you, and the song is that moment right before you confront that person where you both know what’s next, but it’s killing the both of you.”įor both, the song title’s reference to the 1997 horror movie of the same name starring Jennifer Love Hewitt and Freddie Prinze Jr. “ started talking about that in the song. “At the time, I was talking to a guy that I liked, and a friend called me two days before we wrote the song and told me he had been hitting her up and trying to flirt with her as well,” Cabello reveals. For Cabello, the dramatic lyrical dialogue stemmed from real-life heartbreak. The casual meeting led to the pair writing “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” a soulful, conversational pop duet that has the friends evoking the styles of their favorite artists, like Ed Sheeran and John Mayer. “I pulled out my guitar and we were just messing around, not really thinking about writing a song.” “We were just backstage hanging out,” Mendes adds the next day.

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