It’s “about a love that feels mythic – a love that feels fated, all-consuming and a little dangerous and disarming,” she says of the track
Dove Cameron gets dark and mythical on her new single. On Friday, the pop star released the video for “Romeo,” her follow-up to earworm “French Girls,” and just days after her triumphant opening set for Dua Lipa.
“‘Romeo’ is about a love that feels mythic – a love that feels fated, all-consuming and a little dangerous and disarming,” says Cameron in a press release. “I wrote the song and created the visuals to feel bizarre and otherworldly and purposefully lost in space and time.”
Cameron explains that while “Romeo” is a love song at its core, it’s “wrapped in the dark undulating production” that she’s experimenting with in this new era of her music. “I’ve come to love [it] so much,” she says of the new era. “I’m excited for everyone to hear it.”
The Curry Tian-directed video captures Cameron in a series of sexy looks inside a dark, luxurious home as she sings to her lover from a bedroom, surrounded by shadowy dancers. The visuals cut to surreal scenes of her walking through an otherworldly place before she approaches a body seemingly frozen in a glass chamber. By the end, her “Romeo” slowly comes to life.
“Give u that love you’d kill yourself for/I bleed red so Valentino,” she sings on the catchy chorus. “No I don’t speak Italiano/But I like the way you put it down slow.” (Damiano David, is that you?)
According to a press release, the new singles — “Romeo,” “French Girls” and February’s “Too Much” — are coming ahead of an “exciting new chapter of music” from Cameron.
