Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer In June 2021, Cam got a call from her publisher who told her that a different songwriter couldn’t make a session and asked if she could go instead.
Details were scarce — she didn’t even know whose session it was — and off she went to the studio on a whim. Little did she know she’d be walking into sessions for Beyoncé’s new chart-topping album, “Cowboy Carter,” which inevitably would feature writing, production, engineering and background singing from Cam on five of its songs. “[Beyoncé‘s] just such a creative genius,” Cam tells Variety. “I literally just got to show up as myself.
So purely myself, and give the pieces that I felt were so correct from my point of view, then she wove it all into this masterpiece.
And I’m just like, honestly I think it’s one of the moments in my life where I feel like I can see so clearly how I only want to do this here on out.
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