17 March 2022, 11:05 | Updated: 17 March 2022, 15:03
Dove Cameron opens up about ‘Boyfriend’, queer representation and what’s happening to The Powerpuff Girls reboot.
To paraphrase Wendy Thee Williams, Dove Cameron is an icon, she’s a legend and she is the moment. Now, come on now!
Dove Cameron may be best known for her acting work in Disney franchises like Liv & Maddie and The Descendants, but she is now poised for global pop domination. In just one month, her new single ‘Boyfriend’ has already been streamed over 70 million times on Spotify alone, and it’s become her first song as an artist to chart in the UK Top 20 and the US Hot 100.
In fact, ‘Boyfriend’ is so popular that it went viral before it was even released. Dove teased a snippet of the single on TikTok in January and, within a week it had been used in hundreds of thousands of videos. The hit song is a sultry queer anthem that sounds like it belongs in a Bond movie and it hints at even more exciting things to come.
With that in mind, we caught up with Dove to find out everything about ‘Boyfriend’, why she deleted all her old music, and what we can expect next from the beloved superstar, including what’s happening with her The Powerpuff Girls reboot.
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@dovecameron via Instagram, Kristen Jan Wong
PopBuzz: First of all, huge congrats on ‘Boyfriend’. It’s been so great watching the song blow up and become this international smash hit. Was it stressful for you to have to finish it as soon as it started going viral?
Dove: Great question. You know, luckily, the song itself was finished so everything structurally remained the same. There were just a few lyrics that I wanted to go in and tweak. And then we had some production finishing touches, and bells and whistles to put on it. It…