False starts on albums rarely invoke confidence in the finalproduct, but then few singers in recent years have had the trajectory of Camila Cabello’s post-Fifth Harmony career.

"Atfirst I thought it was gonna be, like, a sad-song album," she said in arecent interview with Rolling Stone, referring to its original (somewhatmelodramatic) title The Hurting. The Healing. The Loving, moody tastertrack I Have Questions andSia-penned sad-banger single Crying In TheClub. "Then the more I got into the year, it just was better,”she continued. “I felt way happier.” We’re guessing this was when her recentsingle, Latin-pop juggernaut Havana,soared up the charts across the world, including five weeks at Number 1 on the Official Singles Chart.

The song’ssuccess caused her to cast aside her previous solo releases (including theQuavo-assisted OMG) and go back in the studio to refocus the album's sound byinjecting more Havana-ness into it. So, what are we left with? "I feelthat it has a good balance of the emo and the happy," she said, and she’spretty much on the money.

The Latin-pop flavour on the album – now called Camila - isinfused most intensely between tracks three and five, where Havana issandwiched between two hip-swivelling uptempos. The reggaeton-heavy Inside Out is themore carefree and playful of them, but She Loves Control has the moreinfectious chorus and bigger hit potential ("She loves control, she wantsit her way/ And it all it takes is just one taste/ You wanna give itup?").

Elsewhere,the sultry In TheDark and almost-acoustic All These Years outshinepiano ballads Consequencesand Something’s Gotta Give;their confessional tone feels more in line with the album’s original vision.

The realgem, however, is closing number (track 10, don't miss it) Into It; a super slicknumber on which Camila flirts commands: "I see a kingsize bed in the corner we should get into it/ All the things I wanna do to youis infinite". Get it, girl.

Source - www.officialcharts.com