Camila Cabello Announces Album Title, Solo Single Release Date

We all knew that the emergence of Camila Cabello, the budding solo star, was in the works, but the time has finally come for the first official chapter in the former Fifth Harmony bandmate's solo career. 

On Sunday (May 14), the 2017 Billboard Music Award performer took to social media to announce that her forthcoming solo album will be called The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving, and reveal the set's lead single release date. Harmonizers will hear the first official taste of solo Cabello when the track drops this Friday, the week of new releases for Selena Gomez and Liam Payne. No word on the title of the cut.

Cabello's announcements arrived amidst a lengthy letter about how the project initially took form. "The first song from my forthcoming album 'the hurting the healing the loving' will come out on 5.19.17," the singer said in the beginning of her message. "'The hurting the healing he loving' is the story of my journey from darkness into light, from a time when I was lost to a time when I found myself again."

Later on in the letter, the 20-year-old singer explained that the entire project started with the second song fans will hear called "I Have Question," which was written in a hotel bathroom on tour a little over a year ago. "I was completely broken during that time, I was in the kind of pain that's uncomfortable to talk about, and it was the kind of chapter you never want to read out loud.... I couldn't write another song for 6 months because writing meant I had to feel everything, and I wasn't ready to do that yet," she continued.

According to Cabello, it was sad song after sad song until the budding starlet got sick of the lows and her music started getting happier until she reached her point of recovery. "I realized i wasn't making music just to make an album anymore, I was making this music to heal. it wasn't until I had made enough songs to listen back to and realized I could hear myself coming back through these songs. I didn't write it with the intention of delivering a message, but I realized the message was in the hurting, the healing, and the loving," she said. "i might have thought the hurting was my enemy before, but she became the best listener... I might have thought I was too impatient for the healing, and it did feel like sometimes she was taking forever, but I realized it made me appreciate her so much more when she arrived. and the loving, I wouldn't have known how beautiful she was if I couldn't miss her all that time."

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