fifth harmony, camila cabello and laucy
so this post is a really long time coming. iāve been wanting to write something about this for a while now but i wasnāt sure what the point of the post was going to be or where i would go with it. i still donāt really but my main reason for writing this is to just gather my thoughts on everything thatās happened since mid novemeber in regards to fifth harmony. this post isnāt exactly about one thing in particular, but a multitude of things that have happened.
i kind of want to divulge into the whole bad things drama with camila but iāve already made a post about that which you can read here (although it was written haphazardly when she announced that it was being released). the only other point that iād like to make about bad things is that some fifth harmony tour shows (in europe) were cancelled to promote her single with machine gun kelley (see here) and she was also performing at every jingle ball this year with him to promote the song. this shows the favour the label had toward camila over the four other girls which iāll probably getting into a bit later on in this post. i believe that label has, in some ways, always favoured camila. she didnāt drop epic/syco when she left fifth harmony, she is still signed to them even now.
now, letās get on to the good stuff - laucy. so, i think it was right in the middle of november when the pictures of lauren and lucy kissing were āleakedā. i put leaked in quotation marks because we still do not know if they were purposely put out there to make lauren uncomfortable, the photographer put them out there unknowingly or the photographer put them out there knowingly - for pr.
my laucy heart was literally palpitating when i saw these pictures but as soon as i did, i wanted to scream because, oh shit - lauren had been outed, right? despite camren shippers saying it was ājust a friendly kissā (aw bless their naivety, i mean - does that look like a friendly kiss?) i think everyone knew that the kiss represented much more than that. now letās have a look at the date that these pictures were released - the pics were āleakedā on the 13th of November 2016.
lauren made no comment on the pictures and still hasnāt. in fact, sheās made no comment on the status of her relationship or if sheās even dating lucy or anyone else for that matter.
then, on the 18th of November, lauren comes at as bisexual to billboard in an open letter to trump supporters.. āi am a bisexual cuban-american woman and i am so proud of itā.
i have plenty of points to make about laurenās coming out. before i indulge in them - i want you all to remember that sexuality can only be defined by the person to who it belongs to. when lauren denied her interest in girls and said she was straight - she was straight. now that she is saying she is bisexual - she is bisexual, meaning she is interested in boys and girls. if, in the future, she retracts this statement - then she is who she says she is.
so - were the pictures accidentally posted? no - they were not. they were purposely put out there to tease fans and the public - to gauge a reaction as how people would deal with lauren kissing a girl.
but why, you ask. well - what else happened when the pictures were released? mid november right?ā¦ well in fifth harmonyās second statement, they reveal that they were informed in āmid novemberā that camila would be leaving the group. camila cabello - the face of fifth harmony, was leaving the group! so of course this meant that they needed someone else to become the new face of fifth harmony. somebody to take over.
why am i so adamant in my belief that they were released and not unintentionally leaked? because this is how the music industry works. little to nothing is left to chance. everything happens for a reason.
then, lauren came out. was her coming out in response to the pictures of her and lucy kissing? or was it as she says, because of Trump?
i donāt believe that for a second. why? because the article was sent to billboard. it had to be approved. billboard had to want to post it for lauren. these things donāt happen in a second. they take at least a day. they were an appropriate response to the pictures without mentioning the pictures (for those outside of the fandom).
also - lauren couldnāt just ācome outā without getting permission. we all know that all of the girls have such strict contracts (which has now been changed a little thanks to our saviour, dina la polt). laurenās coming out was negotiated - they weighed up the proās and cons and decided in favour of it because most of the fandom already speculated lauren wasnāt straight and also because of her featuring on afterellen previously etc. syco/epic deemed it okay for her to come out and that is why she was allowed. laurenās coming out also serves a purpose for epic/syco - it paints them in a positive light, showing that epic/syco arenāt monsters who closet their clients.
is lauren actually bisexual? yes. there would be little to no benefit for her to come out if she wasnāt actually bisexual. a straight image is much more marketable than a non-straight image. so yes, whilst the label did allow lauren to come out - it was ultimately her decision. but, she may have been coerced slightly - to put herself into the limelight since camila was leaving. the timeline all makes sense.
what else happened about three weeks after lauren came out? she announced that she had collabed with duo marian hill for a song.
with laurenās name out in the media because of her coming out, it was a perfect opportunity for her to drop her collab.
is lauren and lucyās relationship pr? no. why? lucy is hardly well known apart from in latin america because of her dad, carlos vives. in a society that is heavily homophobic it was inevitable that he would be asked about his daughterās actions, to which he responded -
carlos vives is very careful not to label the kiss. he doesnāt say that itās a relationship. he says itās a symbol. this coincides with laurenās letter to trump. lauren doesnāt come out because the pictures were leaked, but because she wants to prove something to trump supporters (according to her story line).
also see what lucy had to say about the leaked kissing picture - here.
i do not know if lauren and lucy are in a relationship because it has not been confirmed. but i will say this - whatever they are, it is real and we should respect that. i definitely think that their relationship is being flaunted for pr, however. it has a lot of positives to be used as pr. it gives lauren publicity and that in turn gives fifth harmony publicity. first it was camila engaging in publicity stunts, but because she was leaving, their label had to have another way to get media and fan attention. so whilst laucyās existence isnāt pr - the fact that it is kinda in our faces a lot, is pr.
i havenāt even bought up camren in this post once but i do feel as though i should make a comment about it. camren shippers probably make up the majority of the fifth harmony fandom. mid november (when the pics were leaked and lauren came out as bi, they were also informed that camila was leaving) which would be the perfect opportunity for lauren to come out as bisexual. why? to kill camren rumoursā¦although camila was still in the band when lauren came out. the label played it well - fans had no idea that camila was leaving so lauren coming out - appealed to camren shippers a lot and fifth harmony gained a lot of attention. but it also killed camren rumours when camila left. a win-win situation in that regard. especially with lucy popped into the mix.
then, lauren was caught at the airport with weed. the reaction from fans and the media was, to say the least - quite humorous and positive. was this pr? or was laurenās name being dragged through the industry? or was it a honest mistake?
in my opinion - it was an attempt to get laurenās name dragged. lauren has always been one to voice her opinion and if you upset one of your superiors (which it is likely she could have done) then they can play you because youāre just a puppet. but laurenās reaction was one of nonchalance. it seemed she was un-bothered - which is why the whole thing couldāve been a stunt. this would work in fifth harmonyās favour because it got lauren (and them) a lot of attention. i guess weāll never know.
i think iāve covered mostly everything about laucy but now i want to quickly look at the statements released by both fifth harmony and camila cabello, when camila decided to leave.
on the night camila was leaving, they all had a jingle ball performance. camila first performed with mgk that night.
then she performed, for the last time ever, with fifth harmony
(oh hey, look at that smile!)
that same night fifth harmony released a statement announcing that camila is leaving. and no, they werenāt ājustā informed - camila craftily added that into her statement.
this was a bombshell for nearly everyone. sure, most of the fandom could see that camila wanted to leave. but after the revival of ot5 moments (yikes, dinah) this was such a confusing time for camila to leaveā¦right? things seemed on the rise so a lot of people couldnāt understand her reasoningā¦even though we saw it coming from miles away. lol.
their statement was short and abrupt and obviously written on behalf of them by their management. i definitely think their management wanted to get the upper hand and create a narrative before camila and her team could come an spit lies (as they have been doing).
then we were given camilaās statement which some people took as more meaningful because she talked about bunnies and rainbows. but her statement too was orchestrated by her team. did you all catch the grammatical inconsistencies throughout? yeah - one person did not write that.
see how she craftily inserted the words ājust informedā? sheās so smart. but fifth harmonyās team werenāt having it and they fired back with their second statement - not admitting defeat. there was so much confusion and so fifth harmony, in my opinion, did the right thing in releasing their second statement - to clear up any confusion. some people, of course, were too blindsighted to see wrong and right, even after everything.
all 3 statements - both fifth harmonyās and camilaās statemnts were all released on behlaf of them and are not completely theirs. one thingās for sure however, there is an underlying narrative that none of us know about and perhaps we never will. what i can say is that camila fucked over 4 girls for her solo career as revealed by this billboard article - camila even went as far as to suggest that the four other girls take a hiatus so she could release her own solo music - and then have fifth harmony to fall back on. itās safe to say that a lot of the articles written from billboard and other news outlets do favour camila (because one of her team works for billboard) but they are very telling. itās also telling that camila has had so many articles written about her since she left - victimising her.
thereās a lot i could say about camilaās departure but i think thatās a story for another time.
with that i leave you with the rise of h4rmony!
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