Camila Cabello teamed up with Ed Sheeran to create the perfect pop breakup anthem.
On Friday (March 4), the duo released their latest single, which will be featured on Cabello’s third full-length album, Familia, which releases on April 8.
“This is one of my favorite songs we’ve ever written. Your life doesn’t have to be perfect for you to allow yourself joy. Even through the heartache, and the confusion, and the messiness… we keep dancing,” Cabello tweeted.
The new tune was written by Cabello, Sheeran and Ricky Reed, who also produced the track that has listeners dance through the pain of a breakup.
This isn’t the first time that Cabello and Sheeran have collaborated. In 2019, Sheeran enlisted Cardi B and Cabello for the Gold-certified hit, “South of the Border.”
Some fans speculated that the song could have been inspired by Cabello’s ex-boyfriend, Shawn Mendes. The first verse says, “You said you hated the ocean, but you’re surfin’ now / I said I’d love you for life, but I just sold our house / We were kids at the start, I guess we’re grown-ups now.”
The two met while they were young teens while she was in Fifth Harmony. The former pair broke up in November after two years of dating and shortly after, Cabello did sell the house that they shared. Additionally, Mendes was photographed surfing in February.
Cabello later seemingly confirmed that Mendes was the source of inspiration for the lyrics.
“I’m going back to a lot of the Latin music I listened to growing up,” Cabello told Ryan Seacrest. “In Latin music, there’s a lot of songs that almost carry within it a life lesson. Life has its cycles. I was in a long relationship that was amazing and awesome but things change and things end.”