Camila Cabello, HE KNOWS | Song Review 🎵

Camila Cabello enlists Grammy-winning pop artist Lil Nas X for her energetic second single from her fourth LP, C, XOXO, “HE KNOWS.”

“This is not a show.” WOO! In the intro, Camila Cabello sets the tone for “HE KNOWS”, her bold second single from C, XOXO, her fourth studio album (arrives June 28, 2024). In the single, Cabello gets an assist from Grammy winner Lil Nas X (Montero Hill). The track was written by Cabello, Hill, Ojerime Smith, and producers Daniel Aged, El Guincho (Pablo Diaz-Reixa), and Jasper Harris. Sleekly produced, this pop banger runs a respectable three minutes in duration.

Following the intro, Cabello follows up with a simple but infectious chorus:

“I think he knows

When I play with him like that

When I say it to him like that

Have my way with him like that…” 

Following the chorus, Cabello sings the bold first verse. “She’s a provocateur,” she asserts, adding, “Give him hell, yeah / Give these boys hell, yeah / She does it well…” In the pre-chorus, she “Tease(s) him and get(s) him off me.” Oh, snap! The ever-polarizing Lil Nas X is sexed TF up in the second verse.  The freakiness commences with “He drippin’ down on my bustier like ice cream,” continuing with “He fuckin’ up my headboard, so I’m on my knees like, ‘Dear Lord, please pray for me.’”  Of course, it doesn’t end there.  “Brrt, baow, shoot in my mouth / Shoot in my shit like uh, and one,” he encourages, adding, “I’ma take him from his hoes / On the real, I think he knows.” And for good measure, in the bridge, Camilla asserts, “He’s wrapped around my pinky finger.”  Gah-day-um! Ultimately, “HE KNOWS” is an edgy, hella fun pop banger.

Camila Cabello // C, XOXO // Camila Cabello / Geffen / Interscope // 6.28.24

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