Camila Cabello has recovered The Tonight Show to play on Wednesday night (June 12), featuring robot dogs, frozen stories and killer dance moves. In addition to performing her frenetic single “I Luv It” with the help of blindfolded dancers, Cabello talked about her upcoming album. C, XOXO (June 28)) played a new game with host Jimmy Fallon and cleared up some rumors about her frozen bag at the Met Gala.
Cabello and Fallon reminisced about their meeting at the annual fashion fantasia earlier this year, and the singer admitted that by the time she saw Jimmy she was “so drunk” because she was so stressed out from what happened earlier. Fallon then pulled out a photo of Cabello's purse from that night, which consisted of a rose frozen in a block of ice.
“I didn't think about the fact that the ice, very quickly, is melting,” Cabello said. “And so I get there and it's my worst, the nightmare situation where all of a sudden the clutch breaks. I think Ed Sheeran was there saying a joke or something and someone accidentally moved it and before I could take my picture the clutch completely broke.”
Cabello described being surrounded by shocked A-listers, including poet Amanda Gorman, actress Rachel Sennott and model Kaia Gerber, who gasped when the purse straps snapped. “This is the thing you don't want to happen – a bunch of famous people looking at you with a breakdown during the line before you get your picture taken at the Met Gala!” So Camila said she turned to Gerber and a few others for advice, landing on the solution of turning it into a (very slippery) clutch.
Fallon then assured Cabello that she was holding the ice cube “sparklingly,” uploading a photo of a stone-faced Camila carrying the dripping purse. Also, for the record, she threw cold water on the viral report that her bag cost $25,000. “Guys! It's freezing water!” she shouted, “You can make it at home!”
Cabello also explained the title of her fourth album, saying the new collection is a chapter in her life that feels “personal to me and authentic to me and signed by me. Like writing a letter to someone. This is who I am, whether I like it or not.” When Jimmy asked Cabello about her writing process, after noting that she has no co-writers on this album, Cabello gave an example of her skills by breaking out her phone to sing a tune she wrote for the show on her way to the studio.
The vocal note featured Cabello humming slightly while singing, “New suit, same chair, new dress, blonde hair/ We've seen each other in phases/ Past lives, debut, Met Ball, I saw you/ Good to have a friend in scary places/ Jimmy-ah, Jimmy-ah, Jimmy okay/ They came for a show okay Jimmy okay/ It's another late night/ It's another late night talkin',” as a stunned Fallon looked on.
The singer returned for a round of the new game Dance Charades, in which one player wore headphones and danced to a song whose title the other player had to guess. Cabello proved quite adept at the game, belting out Olivia Rodrigo's “Vampire” while pretending to bite her hand as Fallon awkwardly ran into Shakira's “Hips Don't Lie.”
Cabello returned once again to sing “I Luv It,” the first single from the follow-up to her 2022 LP Familia, which features guest appearances from Drake, Lil Nas X, Playboi Carti and City Girls. The set opened with Cabello in a silver dress, baggy leather gloves and a black blindfold with white x's over her eyes – a fearsome look mirrored by her four dancers – in the high-energy performance that included her back-up crew holding a pair of dancing One-of-a-kind robot dogs on leashes as giant fans sent their costumes flying.
Watch Cabello The Tonight Show below.
