Dove Cameron Offers Herself to the Canvas in "French Girls"
Photo: Richie Shazam
It has been some sixteen years since The Fame Monster was released, a groundbreaking album that, behind the glitz and glam, delivered a commentary on fame, its pop stars, and all their ups and downs. Now, Dove Cameron surrenders to the same charming frame, and does it with style and substance. In her new single, "French Girls," Cameron, among a sizzling electro-pop composition, sings about what fame takes and gives while providing the people a front-row seat into the birth of a star.
"Paint me like one of your French girls, in emeralds and curls / I give myself over to you / I wanna be remembered, be yours forever / Make me your whole world, your muse," she chants as droning synthetic sounds usher in piano-driven chords of serenity. Trance-heavy and club-ready, "French Girls" is more than a house banger, it is a song that through a stylish visualizer puts an artistic spin on the realities of fame, and how artists are the doll in the doll's house, part of a collection of memorable faces that come at the high price of the whims of the people.
If the contrast between music aimed at fun escapism and lyrics meant for deep introspection strikes you as interesting, that is the style that Cameron effortlessly wields, making her sophomore album an anticipated event for 2025. Through haunting vocalizations and an '80s-approved synth outro, we see a pop track that blends genres and decades, and that, much like pop stars of years past, from Madonna to Lady Gaga, pays tribute to the grandeur of fame, the type of glam that only pop can enjoy.
Dove Cameron is not afraid to make a statement, and certainly not shy in revealing both her ambitions and weighing them on a scale with her fears, in hopes of striking that ever delicate balance that fame demands—the greater than life star and the human within it that gives it its charm. In "French Girls," we see style and substance converge for a fitting tribute to fame and all its complexities.
Watch the “French Girls” visualizer below:
