Musical Monday with Camila Cabello

Singer Camila Cabello first came to public notice as a teen-aged contestant on the X-Factor talent show in 2012. Over the past eight years, she has risen to pop music star status, complete with scandals and Twitter/Instagram apology tours for making insensitive posts!

As I type these words, it's less than a week since she released her latest music video and single. Camila Cabello ... which means it's probably the "freshest" thing to ever be featured here at Shades of Gray. Featuring this video as quickly as possible on a Musical Monday was a no-brainer since it's supporting a nice song and is set in an imaginary version of the Old Hollywood that produced so many of the films and cultural icons that are covered around here.

Oh... and don't get scared when the video is suddenly in color at the end. It's that shift that lifts if from good to great, in my opinion!

My Oh My (2020)

Starring: Camila Cabello and DaBaby

Director: Dave Meyers

Rating: Nine of Ten Stars

(This is at least the second time that director Dave Meyers has used fake movie title cards as part of a music video. I'll have to check out more of his work to see if it's a signature. He also did it in this Pink video from 2012.)

Musical Monday with Pink

The only French cinema we've reviewed around here have been really old silent movies, so in order to make up for that, here's a fabulously strange music video featuring Pink and fake French cinema main title credits. (And as strange as the video is, it still manages to tell a story! So it's almost like watching a real French movie!)


Blow Me (One Last Kiss) (2012)
Starring: Pink, Alexander Ercheverria, and Sebastian de la Forza
Director: Dave Meyers
Rating: Eight of Ten Stars
(One reason we haven't covered much from the French around here is that we write about movies, and the French don't make movies... they make cinemah.)