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Dove Cameron has entered the constructing! The 26-year-old singer and actress wowed the gang on the 2022 American Music Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday night time, Nov. 20 in an edgy black and white outfit consisting of a white corset-style crop prime paired with an extended, black puffer coat that she reworked right into a maxi skirt. She regarded stylish along with her lengthy, brown hair pulled again right into a ponytail and a braid framing her face on either side. She wore graphic black eyeliner to spotlight her gorgeous inexperienced eyes. Hoop earrings and a silver necklace with a transparent attraction added some sparkle to her distinctive vogue selection.
Though the Disney alum has been round for fairly a while, her singing profession gained momentum this yr with the discharge of her smash hit “Boyfriend”. The music peaked at No. 16 on the Sizzling 100 chart in June, per Billboard, incomes the rising star her first prime 20 hit of her profession. Whereas the music is just not nominated on the 2022 AMAs, Dove is nominated within the Greatest New Artist class and she or he is performing “Boyfriend” later within the night time.
“Boyfriend” was licensed platinum by the RIAA this fall, and Dove was offered with the plaque by Kelly Clarkson on Nov. 17 whereas Dove was a visitor on The Kelly Clarkson Present. The music is about Dove’s bisexuality, and the lyrics have her making an attempt to persuade a lady that she may very well be a greater boyfriend to her than any man shall be. “[‘Boyfriend’] was such an enormous a part of me discovering my very own id and embracing my queerness,” the Descendants star informed the 40-year-old American Idol alum. “And it makes me emotional each time I speak about it however, it was such a key to gate for me into entering into myself wholly, in a method that I by no means knew if I used to be gonna be privileged sufficient to seek out these items of myself. And exist as that individual, proper?”
“The concern is that you just exist as your self wholly and the world cracks open and every part ends, and all of the lights exit,” she continued. “And when the music got here out and I noticed that folks have been emotionally connecting to it, I feel I used to be actually panicked for some cause, simply ’trigger I wasn’t anticipating it. After which over time, it was prefer it melded into this attractive, like … one thing significant for me being one thing significant for others.”
Dove first opened up about being bisexual in a 2020 Instagram Reside after she was accused of queerbaiting in her Sept. 2020 lyric video for “We Belong”. Opening up about that point in her life to the Homosexual Occasions in Could 2021, she stated, “I’ve hinted about my sexuality for years whereas being afraid to spell it out for everyone.” She continued, “I went on Instagram Reside and stated ‘Guys, I actually wanted to elucidate one thing to you. Perhaps I haven’t stated it, however I’m tremendous queer. That is one thing I need to signify by my music as a result of it’s who I’m.’”
“It felt like one thing that I may by no means speak about,” she added, speaking in regards to the struggles she confronted earlier than lastly telling her followers that she’s additionally drawn to girls. “I really feel just like the business has modified loads when it comes to having room for individuals with platforms to be human and to not be picked aside. I used to be actually nervous to return out, and someday, I dropped it as a result of I used to be behaving like anyone who was out and I spotted I wasn’t.”
