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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 evening, Nov. 20 in an edgy black and white outfit consisting of a white corset-style crop prime paired with a protracted, black puffer coat that she reworked right into a maxi skirt. She regarded stylish together 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 allure added some sparkle to her distinctive style selection.
Although 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 tune peaked at No. 16 on the Hot 100 chart in June, per Billboard, incomes the rising star her first prime 20 hit of her profession. While the tune just isn’t nominated on the 2022 AMAs, Dove was nominated within the Best New Artist class — which she received and devoted ” to the queer neighborhood at massive.”
“You guys have carved out such a space for me to be honest and to write music about it, and I’ve never felt safer or more loved and more supported,” she continued in her touching acceptance speech. “I hope I can give you some semblance of that in my music. On the heels of what happened in Colorado Springs, I want to remind everyone how important queer visibility is and how important our community is.” She then shined a lightweight on organizations that assist the LGBTQ+ neighborhood, akin to GLAAD and the Trevor Project.
During the final hour of the present, the Best New Artist winner took the stage for a sultry remix of “Boyfriend”. As seen above, Dove become a horny costume consisting of a dramatic black wide-legged pantsuit paired with a horny pink satin bra. She added some extra drama with a protracted practice of pink materials flowing from every sleeve, presumably representing the fireplace in her coronary heart burning for the tune’s love curiosity. While she rocked the identical ponytail she got here with, she took out her braids and straightened her bangs, which flowed effortlessly just like the pink in her prime.
“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 Show. The tune is about Dove’s bisexuality, and the lyrics have her making an attempt to persuade a woman that she could possibly be a greater boyfriend to her than any man can be. “[‘Boyfriend’] was such a huge part of me finding my own identity and embracing my queerness,” the Descendants star informed the 40-year-old American Idol alum. “And it makes me emotional every time I talk about it but, it was such a key to gate for me into stepping into myself wholly, in a way that I never knew if I was gonna be privileged enough to find those pieces of myself. And exist as that person, right?”
“The fear is that you exist as yourself wholly and the world cracks open and everything ends, and all the lights go out,” she continued. “And when the song came out and I saw that people were emotionally connecting to it, I think I was really panicked for some reason, just ’cause I wasn’t expecting it. And then over time, it was like it melded into this gorgeous, like … something meaningful for me being something meaningful for others.”
Dove first opened up about being bisexual in a 2020 Instagram Live 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 Gay Times in May 2021, she stated, “I’ve hinted about my sexuality for years while being afraid to spell it out for everybody.” She continued, “I went on Instagram Live and said ‘Guys, I really needed to explain something to you. Maybe I haven’t said it, but I’m super queer. This is something I want to represent through my music because it’s who I am.’”
“It felt like something that I could never talk about,” she added, speaking concerning the struggles she confronted earlier than lastly telling her followers that she’s additionally interested in ladies. “I feel like the industry has changed a lot in terms of having room for people with platforms to be human and not to be picked apart. I was really nervous to come out, and one day, I dropped it because I was behaving like somebody who was out and I realized I wasn’t.”