Have you ever just wanted to love someone so much that the rest of the world just melts away when you’re together? That’s what Grammy-nominated Cam’s latest single is like. “Till There’s Nothing Left” is about — loving someone with everything you have: mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Imagine thinking, “I know who I am, but I still want to get lost in you.” Both the song and video are romantic and steamy.
The setting for the video is a literal visualization the title, featuring an apocalypse. “It’s like this end-of-the-world vibe in this single,” Cam said, “which is kind of feeling pretty prophetic right now.”
She had to be strategic while filming, because she was eight months pregnant. She explained that she had a good pregnancy and wanted to keep pushing forward, so everything was full-steam ahead.
In the video, she wore a Gucci top and had her belly sticking out, just out of the frame. She also wore slippers and rolled up gold pants. “So basically I had a gold diaper on,” she recalled, jokingly. Her team was good at moving the video shoot along quickly so that she didn’t have to be on her feet all day.
Mixing Business with Personal Life
Pregnancy and making a video might seem difficult to do at the same time, but Cam assured us that it was worth it and part of her overall plan. “I always had the idea that I wanted to have my family life and home life really blended with my work,” she revealed. Cam mentioned how country musicians do that well with touring on weekends, bringing families on buses, and being very accommodating for artists with children.
She recalled that Dierks Bentley brought his kids when she toured with him and they had a blast seeing new things and playing with super soakers in their free time. He provided a good example of how you can pull off being a successful artist and still be together as a family. “It seems like a hurdle, but it’s actually a really nice opportunity to have your kids around as you’re working a lot and then getting to see a lot of things,” she said.
Cam’s Highly-Anticipated Sophomore Album
Cam has been working on her sophomore album, The Otherside for about five years and will release it October 30. She explained that she developed as an artist during this time. “It’s been an amazing journey of me touring so much and getting better at singing and better at music,” she shared.
She recorded her first album after changing careers, giving her limited time to grow musically. “When you’re younger you have great ideas, but you’re not quite able to create them because you’re still working on your craft,” she began. “I feel like I’ve had this time to hone in on what I’m good at–find out what gets me really excited in terms of production.”
Not only has Cam been perfecting her singing during this time, but she’s been enhancing her storytelling skills as well. She said, “To me, the best part of music, which is what I tried to put into this album, is the storyteller needs to feel believable. If you don’t believe what they’re saying, if you don’t hear yourself in it, then you’re not going to want to listen.”
We were excited to learn that the album will feature an assortment of song styles. Cam grew up loving soundtracks and the variety that comes with the albums. “Each song can be what it needs to be,” she said.
From Psychology to Music
After starting down a path in psychology, Cam eventually decided to pursue music full time once she spoke to the head of the department and asked for her guidance. She recalled the advice she was given, “Picture yourself 80 years old. What would you regret missing out on?” Thinking about her dilemma from that perspective made it easy for Cam to choose music.
Although she deviated from her original career path, Cam still uses the tools that psychology provided her. “Psychology has been a really helpful framework to sort of understand myself,” she told us. She compared analyzing herself using a psychological approach to songwriting and how they both leverage a similar process. Songwriting gives her the ability to peel back the layers that have built up over time. “There’s some sort of excavating process that I have to do for myself and it also is really enjoyable for me when I start figuring things out.”
Songwriting is like therapy for Cam. Ideas and thoughts come out during the sessions that she wasn’t even aware of until that moment. Cam went on to talk about how she knows when she needs to include something in a song. When a thought surfaces that’s embarrassing or scary to say, that’s when it needs to be said the most.
She described her previous singles and noted that “Burning House” contained a lot of guilt and regret. The woman in “Diane” spoke to another woman about infidelity with her husband. Both of these songs can elicit deep emotions in people, to the point where she can see the look in people’s eyes when she’s performing live. They often come up to her after the show and thank her for expressing something that they had been going through.
“I don’t know where in life you get that, besides music – that connection with other humans, realizing you have that same shaped hole inside.” People tend to appreciate authenticity and Cam brings that notion with everything she writes. We’re looking forward to Cam’s album and what stories will unfold.
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