What if Dove Cameron was certainly one of Charlie’s Angels? On Friday, Cameron launched her track “Lady Like Me,” an electrical guitar-backed twist on the 1994 Edwyn Collins “Lady Like You” featured within the Nineties movie.
“I grew up listening to the unique by Edwyn Collins, and it’s been certainly one of my favourite songs since so long as I can keep in mind,” she mentioned in an announcement. “I wished to cowl it for age. Then at some point, we had the thought to gender flip it, or fairly, write an empowering response to the unique.”
What got here out of that studio session with Evan Blair was “a barely extra synthy membership future-leaning standpoint.”
Cameron added, “This track is what I’d need enjoying behind me in a slow-motion combat scene within the motion movie of my desires.”
The mysterious track, which she has been teasing on TikTok, follows the discharge of singles “Dangerous Thought,” “Breakfast,” and chart-topping “Boyfriend” earlier this 12 months.
“Once I noticed that scene in Charlie’s Angels, when she’s laying in entrance of a fireplace, and you discover out that she’s a villain and it’s enjoying ‘A Lady Like You,’ I used to be arrested. I used to be nailed to the ground as a 7-year-old, and I’ve all the time cherished it,” she informed Individuals. “And at some point, we simply had this concept. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god, it will be so enjoyable to cowl on tour.’ And we have been like, ‘What if we simply flip the narrative?’”
Cameron lately carried out “Boyfriend” on the American Music Awards and was named the New Artist of the Yr.
“You guys have carved out such an area for me to be myself and to write down music about it and I’ve by no means felt safer or extra cherished and extra supported and I hope I can provide you some semblance of that very same feeling in my music,” she mentioned whereas accepting her award. “On the heels of the tragedy at Membership Q in Colorado Springs, I need to remind everybody how vital queer visibility is and the way vital our group is.”