Dove Cameron opened up to Billboard’s Rania Aniftos about creating her debut album Alchemical: Volume 1, life after the success of her song “Boyfriend,” being vulnerable in her writing and the lessons she learned from her Disney Channel days.
Dove Cameron:
It was just like I was learning as I went and everybody was watching every inch of it.
Hey, I’m Dove Cameron, and this is Billboard News.
Rania Aniftos:
Hi, everybody. It’s Rania Aniftos with Billboard News, and I am so excited to be here with singer-songwriter, Emmy Award winner Dove Cameron.
Dove Cameron:
Hey!
Rania Aniftos:
Hello!
Dove Cameron:
I’m so excited to be here with you.
Rania Aniftos:
Me too!
Dove Cameron:
It’s been a long time coming.
Rania Aniftos:
It has been a long time coming. We’ve both been manifesting this to happen.
So your debut album, Alchemical: Volume 1, so you’re splitting it into two parts. What was the idea behind telling a story in sequence like that?
Dove Cameron:
I felt like I was writing the two halves in such different headspaces. Like, the first half was really, like, about the ending of something and an entire year of my life and the processing of that that happened. And then there was, like, a very stark kind of sonic page turn when it came to the sort of, like, next musical phase that I stepped into. It just kind of ended up making sense to split it.
Rania Aniftos:
You’ve also been sprinkling singles throughout the past few years, and now you finally have a full project out. How does that feel to have like a complete body of work to share with your fans?
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