Dove Cameron Drops ‘French Girls’ on New Single

Dove Cameron has a new fiery single. On Friday, the pop star released her sexy, electro-pop track “French Girls,” which hears Cameron explore her “place in the world of celebrity,” while also referencing her love story with Damiano David.

“I’ve always questioned my own place in the world of celebrity and visibility. What does it mean to be watched, consumed, to give yourself over to the world – the highs and lows of that commitment?” said Cameron in a press statement. “I wanted to explore my feelings around the tension between the joys of connection on a mass scale and the vulnerability that comes with that. The artifice and the intimacy and the surrealism of fame, the people who I look up to, who I consider icons, and where I fit within that, or if I even do.”

The accompanying visualizer sees Cameron posing in two couture dresses with her face covered in paint, alluding to the song’s art-inspired lyrics. “I live for your touch/I live to inspire/So carve me to pieces/Do it in style,” she sings, later pleading to “Make me your whole world/Your muse.

Cameron said she was in a “high-energy, joy-filled space” while writing the song and most of her upcoming album, even though the song’s lyrics are “a little more intricate.”

“‘French Girls’ is a love letter to the romance of my relationship with the world around me, which, like any real relationship, has always been and will always be complex,” she said, in reference to her Maneskin-fronting boyfriend. (In a later verse she sings, “Arch my back like the triomphe and cover me in liquid gold.”

The new single arrives after she was announced as an opener for Dua Lipa on her summer Radical Optimism tour, which includes stops in London, Liverpool, and Dublin, Ireland. “French Girls” is her first single since “Too Much” earlier this year.