“Hi Clevver fam, I’m Dove Cameron and I’m about to take on “Lyric Recall.”
I’m going to pull a bunch of lyrics from a hat and I’m either going to sing them
or read them out loud.
I’m gonna tell you about a certain time in my life that they remind me of, so this
should get interesting.”
“Oh, okay.
‘You could travel the world’ ooh too high!
You could travel the world, But nothing comes close To the golden coast.
Once you party with us, You'll be falling in love.
Ooh oh ooh oh oh ooh, California girls We're undeniable Daisy dukes Bikinis on top, sun
kissed skin so hot, we’ll melt your popsicle.’
California Girls by Katy Perry.
I think that came out either like the year after or the same year that I moved to California,
so it was very like, emblematic of that time for me, when I was like 13 years old, it was
one of those like, quintessential songs of um, like late middle school, just about to
go into high school times.”
“This is a classic, this takes me back.
‘Hey there, Delilah, What's it like in New York city?
I'm a thousand miles away, But, girl, tonight you look so pretty, Yes, you do.
Times Square can't shine as bright as you, I swear, it's true.’
That song came out when I was in middle school, um, and actually this one is so specific for
me, memory wise.
I was in love with a boy named Dane.
Wait does he sound like he’d be hot for a middle schooler with the name Dane?
Dane.
And he was beautiful, and I feel like he comes up in every single one of my interviews and
I hope that he sees them, because that would be too funny.
I don’t think I’ve seen him in like 10 years but I loved him and I like, sewed him
presents, like a weird, like a weird girl cause I was really into sewing at the time
so I like, sewed him things.
Like it’s really pure when I think about it, but because it’s me I’m like oh God,
so embarrassing.
I wanted to date him but he, he was actually my first kiss so like I don’t know what
I’m complaining about he was clearly into me too but he also was into a girl named Julia
Ciatto, I hope you’re watching this too!
I was friends with her, there was a lot of drama in middle school.
But she was so beautiful, again, for a middle schooler.
And she had like, beautiful like, caramel hair and I remember being like wow, she’s
so pretty.
And she like, played sports and was like athletic and I was like weird and into theater and
like drew fake tattoos on myself.
These are real, that would be weird if I just drew these on everyday.
But he was also into Julia and when that song came out, everyone in our grade was like in
love with it, and I specifically remember Dane saying, ‘Aww I love this song because
it fits Julia’s name so perfectly.’
He’d go, ‘Hey there Juliaaa’ and I could not compete.
I remember hating the song when I was that age because of that.
My real name’s Chloe so I’d be like, ‘Hey there Chloe, Hey There Chloe,’ like it just
wasn’t quite the same.”
“Moving on.
‘I was down at the New Amsterdam.
Staring at this yellow-haired girl.
Mr Jones strikes up a conversation, With a black-haired flamenco dancer.
You know, she dances while his father plays guitar.
She's suddenly beautiful.’
Um, that song to me, well it came out I think before I was born, like in the early 90s,
but I grew up watching every 90s film and listening to all the 90s music, so I feel
like that just like, takes me back to my earliest memories.
Like every bar scene in every movie I feel like, for a long time was like, that like
opening guitar like sha la la la la la yeah, so good.”
“I'm like really nervous that I'm not gonna know one, for some reason.
Nobody cares.
I'm like, this is a test.
*Laughs* Okay, my voice is in such bad shape right now.
‘They came from way far out in outer space.
She's hardly missing so they landed on her face.
She's got cooties.’
That song reminds me of a couple years ago when we did ‘Hairspray Live,’ um I feel
like I have rushes of fear and adrenaline, because there’s nothing quite like the experience
of um, performing live only once for an audience of the entire world to then have it be forever
immortalized on camera if you f**k it up, um so…
But it was also like the time of my life, it was just that that was my one song, so
I was like, you know even if I do well on the rest of the show, that’s like the only
time that I have a solo, so I knew that if I mess it up, like um, I would never hear
the end of it.
But there’s also something really freeing about that, because when you know that like,
all of those things are happening at once and there’s no other situation in the world
like that, you can almost like kind of let go more because it’s like, you’ve prepared
to much up until this point so you just have to trust that you’ve done the work and that
it’s gonna work out in your favor, and I feel like you perform better with that kinda
pressure.
At least I do, I perform better with that kinda pressure.”
“Why am I nervous?
I always get so nervous for these.
*laughs* ‘They say I'm trouble, They say I'm bad, They say I'm evil, And that makes
me glad.’
Um, that song is the very first song that I ever heard in relation to ‘Descendents’
when I was like 17 years old or something, and it reminds me of, being in like season
1 or season 2 of ‘Liv And Maddie’ and hearing them send us the demo of that song
and being like, how are we gonna sing and dance to dubstep, like softcore dubstep?
But it reminds me also of being in Vancouver when I was 17 and really really heavy leather
with some of my favorite people ever, being babies and kids and working on this strange
pretend world.”
“Oh God, I don’t like know this really really well though, which is stupid because
it’s the most recent one.
‘You probably think that you are better now, better now, You only say that 'cause
I'm not around, not around, You know I never meant to let you down, let you down, Woulda
gave you anything, woulda gave you everything.’
Kind of?”
“That song reminds me of, God I think that came out like what, 2 years ago?
I feel like that song reminds me of, I don’t know it was just all over the place, right?
I feel like that song reminds me of the Summer of 2018 unless it came out like Fall?
I don’t know.
I feel like, this is so dumb but because I live in LA, Fall and Summer kinda like, lead
into each other and there are kinda like no seasons here except for Winter when it gets
like 10 degrees cooler and everybody’s like, shivering, so I feel like Fall or Summer of
2018 it just reminds me of 2 years ago.
What was I doing 2 years ago?
I don’t know, filming movies?
Being with my friends?
I guess it reminds me of being with my friends, yeah.
It’s always on, right?
It’s one of those songs that’s always on in the background of your life.
Shoutout to Post Malone.”
“Guys, I knew every single one of those!
Doesn’t matter that two of them were um, my own songs.”
“Thank you Clevver for watching me take on “Lyric Recall.”
I hope that some of my stories or anecdotes entertained you or you could relate.
Don’t forget to check out my brand new single, ‘We Belong,’ out this Friday, July 24th!
I love you guys.”
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