Camila Cabello and Lil Nas X are fighting for love. The pop star enlisted Nas X for “He Knows” and the mannequin-filled clip arrived on Wednesday (May 22).
Onda helms the grungy visual, which centers around a dance battle at Los Angeles hot spot gay club Heart Weho. Cabello makes the first move wooing a love interest on the dance floor in a sparkling bra top and skirt.
The “Panini” artist doesn’t even pay any attention to Camila, locking eyes with the man in the barren nightclub, making for a fluid situation as he attempts to snatch him from the Fifth Harmony alum’s grasp.
Cabello isn’t thrilled with Lil Nas X’s drive-by robbery, and she jumps on his back as they get into a tussle only to realize that the guy they were drooling over happens to be a mannequin.
“Oh my God, he’s plastic,” Cabello says in shock.
“But he’s also bald,” Nas X replies, taking the tension out of the room.
They pinky-promise to never fight over a boy again, but that quickly goes awry when another man steals their attention outside the club.
“I just loved the idea of us fighting over this fluid guy, who we don’t know which way he’s leaning,” Cabello told Rolling Stone of the video. “We both would have so much fun with this and have so much fun with the video, so we got to make it a reality.”
“He Knows” arrived on May 10 and serves as the second single from Camila Cabello’s C, XOXO album, which will be released on June 28. The bop follows the Playboi Carti-assisted “I Luv It,” which entered the Billboard Hot 100 at No. 81.
“This is the best project I’ve ever made, and I have never been so proud of a body of work,” she gushed of her upcoming LP to RS. “It’s just such a world. My favorite albums are when I really get to live in a lyric or live in an aesthetic of an album. She is really a complicated, exciting girl, C,XOXO. She really is.”
Watch the “He Knows” video below.
