Camila Cabello on Getting Through Heartbreak and Inspiration Behind New Album (Exclusive)

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Camila Cabello is dancing away the pain and celebrating new music! The «Havana» singer is getting ready to release her upcoming album,, which will be the first since her split from Shawn Mendes.

As her latest single, “Bam Bam,” featuring Ed Sheeran, says, “Así es la vida, sí,” — which translates to “That’s life, yeah” — that's exactly what inspired the new tune.“I started writing this song with my collaborators a few months back and we had this chorus idea about what it's been like in my late teens and early 20s falling in and out of love and ups and downs of that,” Cabello tells ET’s Denny Directo.  “Also reminding myself, as my mom has told me many times, 'That's life.’ You're on the ground crying on the bathroom floor and then you'll have feelings for another person again, and you'll be crying on the bathroom floor again.

And that is the cycle of change. Things just change, you never know what's around the corner,” she says. Helping Cabello on the track is Sheeran, whom she has worked with before. “When I sent the song and he said, ‘I love, let’s definitely do this,’ I just felt like, 'This is too good to be true, he’s going to change his mind.' He didn’t and he has been so exciting about it throughout,” she shares. «Bam Bam» is just the start.

Cabello’s third studio album is due out on April 8, and according to the star, the recording process was «cathartic,» because she was able to go into the studio and sing what was on her heart.  “For me, my process is really cathartic,” she says. “It’s me kind of singing anything that I think about and feel into a microphone.