“Boyfriend” by Dove Cameron
For readers who may not know, Dove Cameron, the Disney actress, is in fact a known bisexual. And the reason why such is important to note in this case is because “Boyfriend” is a love song, though with the addressee, i.e. the person the singer is kickin’ it to, being another female.
What the title/chorus actually revolves around is the vocalist telling this lady that she “could be a better boyfriend” to her than her actual current boyfriend.
And the reason Dove is making this assertion is based on two premises besides that fact that she’s bisexual. First is that she doesn’t appreciate the way the addressee’s boyfriend treats her. Secondly, she appears to be in love with the addressee herself. So likewise, the vocalist’s lyrical focus is twofold, on one hand bashing dude and on the other exalting herself or how compatible she and the addressee are, therefore putting forth they will make a better couple than the person she’s currently with.
So conclusively, this is one of those types of songs where a singer is trying to take the apple of her eye away from the lover this person is already with. But what makes this case different is that both the vocalist and addressee are females, and there is no explicit clue that the latter is lesbian or bisexual.
Dove Cameron
Dove Cameron has a discography dating back to 2013 but has not released any solo LPs as of yet. Instead, all four of the studio albums she has participated on thus far have been Disney projects, as Dove is also a tenured actress with said organization. However, she does have one non-Disney album to her credit, a 2019 EP entitled “Bloodshot / Waste”, albeit being only two tracks’ long.
The “Boyfriend” Song
“Boyfriend” was released on 11 February 2022. At the time of the song’s release, it is believed to be the lead single from another extended play Cameron has coming out in the near future.
The track was produced by Evan Blair. Evan also co-wrote it with Delacey, Skyler Stonestreet and Cameron. In an interview, Cameron commented on the writing of this song. According to her, while composing it, among other things, she found herself in a way she wasn’t sure she ever would. She further revealed how “happy” this song made her.
It has been noted that this song was actually slated for a later release date. However, a snippet Cameron uploaded onto TikTok went viral. This prompted her to issue it in full earlier than scheduled.
This song makes me feel more ME. I feel this is true in a lot of female perspective and it really acknowledges the fact that some guys are douches, and that’s just that. Females need to know their worth and know there is so much better out there for them, especially if it’s coming from the same sex.
I LOVE THIS SONG
agreed
This makes me embrace my bisexaulity
RIGHT. I heard this and literally was like “omg yes this is so me”
Same
Same! As a bisexual and non bianary person, I relate to this song like If The song was perfect for me
Although the song encourages cheating, which is never good thing, regardless of gender. If you are not satisfied with your partner, break up with them, but don’t go for other people.
I think that the song isn’t so much suggesting cheating as telling the other person to dump her boyfriend for her
It actually says she would steal her from him
depends lol
Agreed
I relate to this so much cuz I’m gay and my crush has a boyfriend D:
This song is amazing. As a queer teenager, the song really helped me figure my identity out – helped me find MYSELF. I love the perspective of the song as well. It’s very inspiring. It’s a beautiful song too. Wonderfully created. I LOVE it!!
the thing is this, your sexuality does not mean that it’s your identity. We are all meant to love the opposite gender and the same sex but just because you feel attracted to the same gender does NOT mean it’s your identity.
Gay is not only a sexuality.. it’s however you make it; No matter if you see it as a sexuality yourself. Trust me, I’m multisexual, multigender, and polyamorous and I was born originally as a female and I’m a (I guess you can say queer) teenager as well and I agree with Charlie.
This does not mean that their sexuality is their gender it’s just that they are trying to find themselves and this song helped them. I don’t understand how you took their response that way, but this song is excellent for confused teens. Dove Cameron was also saying that making this song helped her find herself so in a way your sexuality could technically be your gender, only in a few cases though.
Indeed
I love this! Its so true
When I listen to “boyfriend” it help me relax because i just got out of an extremely toxic/manipulative/abusive relationship. it give me that little bit of hope that not everyone is like all of my abusive exs. I helped my best friend out of a toxic relationship and she helped me out of mine after my ex tried to kill me. she warned me that my ex girlfriend was bad news but i didnt listen and i regret it now because all she wanted to do was keep me from getting hurt . I just lost my brother and trying to go through that without him is hard because he helped me through everything. he was killed in a car accident in February. We were closer than anything in the world. When he would go to his friends house, i went with him…. all his friends were also my friends and its hard for me to be ok without him. Times like this are the times I need him most .
If you need a song to feel more “you”, then maybe your life isn’t going as well as you think it is.
Love this song a lot. I feel powerful and can relate to it in so many ways also.
Catchy, but woke.
You know, everything doesn’t have to be gay and bi-sexual.
Celebs don’t have to force that on us.
I could do with some wholesome content.
Nobody is forcing anything. Almost every romantic song is about straight people and nobody is complaining. A song being gay doesn’t make it not wholesome.
Same. Nobody is forcing anything.
THANK YOU!
You should respect others beliefs it is often hard for a celebrity to share some venerability especially when it is to a lot of people, being gay is not un wholesome and woke is an extremely offensive term to use!
Perhaps you should accept that s/he believes different from you.
Don’t contradict yourself by telling them to believe what you believe.
Perhaps you should be more accepting that they believe something different you and woke culture?
and yet it is we who are the snowflakes
I can see where your coming from, but its kind of sexy. Besides, meanings for a song is subjective. You could argue that shes singing from the perspective of another man. Either way, the song is more about guys being douches, and this song is one of the few instances where I’m not thinking about how f’ed up woke culture is. I suppose its the instrumental parts of the song that I LOVE.
Being gay and making a song about it isn’t forcing anything on anyone, I am a pansexual teenager and I really appreciate it when celebs embrace themselves, it gives me more confidence that there are more people like me in the world and that people will accept me more when I come out to my family
I’m pan too, and I really like this song because it’s embracing the LGBTQ+ community, and not many songs/celebs do that.
I agree!!
actually, there are a lot of people that are trying to push everyone to everything else but their actual gender
nonono andatea la mierda con echo y derecho no te esta diciendo que seas bisexual esta apoyando a la gente que tiene un misero grano de cerebro no como vos para que no se sientan tristes de lo que son o como se sienten ..psd hijo de perrra mal nacido 😀
Someone who’s not confused and falling under the wicked spell breathing in the whispering lying poisonous vapors. There’s still hope amongst us Thank God 🙏🏻
How is sapphic romance unwholesome? How is loving another girl different from loving someone of another gender than yourself? As long as both relationships are balanced and free from any form of abuse they are just different expressions of romantic love.
This is happening right now. I am comforting my crush, whom I make it obvious that I like them, about their boyfriend. He is toxic, never takes them seriously, homophobic, transphobic, racist, fatphobic basically a all rounding bitch. But they are so dependent and loving of him that I don’t know what to do…
If I were you, I’d tell your crush about all the negative things, about their boyfriend. They shouldn’t be with someone with such harsh labels and they SHOULD know that.
I’m not attracted to females, but this song is nice
i love i it makes me think of the person i like
This song gets me in my feels. I could really be a better boyfriend to myself than the one i’m currently with.
I like it. Don’t think I’d ever have the courage to do or say anything like it but that is exactly what’s going on in my head.
While I understand the meaning behind this song, I feel like this song is pressuring women to be lesbians, and tells women out there that all men are douches, which leaves the very rare men out there who know how to properly treat women, no chance to give women the chance to date and be in a romantic relationship with her.
I don’t understand this logic -_-
Sorry but you are just flat out wrong…
This song is just about a woman loving another woman PERIOD
I get this, while you are partly right. You are only partly right. I’m a dude and know a jerk when I see one, but face it us dudes make them fake orga-ms. ):
I did not see that coming.
Please express how you “feel” like this is pressuring women to be lesbians. In that whole song not once did it say or make it seem like you should be lesbian the chorus just states “I could be a better boyfriend than him I could do the shit that he never did up all night, I won’t quit thinking I’m gonna steal you from him I could be such a gentleman plus all my clothes would fit.” which is saying how ONE person feels that they should be their partner to another ONE person. Besides, if this song was “pressuring” women into becoming a lesbian what’s so wrong with that. Not one thing can suddenly make you a sexuality. It may be an awakening which in my opinion, helps you get to know yourself better.
we get it you’re a nice guy who gets no bi–hes. move along honey.
Actually I am a lesbian who gets all the bitches so please move along honey
lol nice come back😂
So does this mean that Taylor swifts Love Story, one of my favorite songs from my childhood, is pressuring people to be straight and trying to convince them that parents suck? The logic that you claim to have isn’t very true
is this just “not all men” all over again?
Helps me embrace my pansexuality
SAME! This song makes me think of my girlfriend.
Love this song there’s to many songs about straight peeps and I’m not saying there bad songs I just love Dove Cameron is expressing who she really is 🙂
Same hear😄
Who is the blind girl in her video. The one that kissed the redhead
I thought she was a lesbian..
My best friend and I are both in relationships with our boyfriends and are not attracted to each other but we always love to sing this to each other. She loves to sing it about me because I am dating her cousin, and I sing it to her because, A) He is kinda annoying to me, and B) she’s my best friend, and it’s all a joke. But overall I love this song.
I really love this song, it helps me embrace my bisexuality
makes me embrace my bisexuality and that makes me happy
This song is gay like all of you.
I’m not a woman but I am bi and it’s a bomb ass song
same here
its such a great song and dove is such a great person dove+music= match made in heaven
She is a bi–h!
Die
I love this song I’m not bi but It’s dope and I can’t stop singing it
SAAME
im not bi or anything but this song slaps
this song is amazing. i am still not sure which person i like but hopefully when that day comes. I’ll also be happy as i am listening to music too
I seriously love this song, it makes me feel so happy inside, and the first time I heard it I was like, oh my gosh, I’ve never related to a song more, and like, I just get it. It’s literally my favorite song, and I memorized it like 1 day after hearing it, and like, Dove’s voice is SOOO amazing, and so are the lyrics, I’m like, in love with this song.
At first I thought it was a homophobic song like I thought it was like she is straight and is telling a hot gay dude to get rid of his boyfriend for her but I was very wrong glad that I was wrong this boy was gonna be f–kin pissed
what is freakin wrong with society? what’s the point of being part of the LGBTQ+ community? it’s so dumb. we were created, and told to “go forth and multiply”. Can we multiply with two girls? Can we multiply with two guys? Go to science class people! It will teach you. I get you don’t have to believe in God but if you really think about it, do you really think being gay or lesbian or anything is really right? There’s gotta be something in yourself that tells you it’s wrong. You can love your friends but you don’t have to MARRY them! Like what. the. actual. heck?!
ps, i know lots of ppl will hate that comment, but consider it please? just try to think about it from a catholic’s perspective
i a lesbian female can still have kids.
What in the heck was the purpose of figuring out the meaning of the song, scrolling through comments and crap.. just to preach to us about lgbt being wrong and how you’re catholic..? Hello? lmao
if you went to science class you learn that humans are an overpopulated invasive species and maybe having some couples that can’t reproduce is a good thing considered we already have a lot of people on the planet, and there are plenty of straight people out there who can reproduce, so you don’t have to worry about humans going extinct anytime soon
imagine being THIS MAD that the only reason you get any is “to multiply” just commit mitosis already
You know what? You are UNBELIVABLE. Its because of homophobic people like you that keep society from moving forward and becoming a more inclusive place for everyone. You act like liking someone of the same gender is a choice. People cant change who they are, and your speech wont change that. “There’s gotta be something in yourself that tells you it’s wrong.” What???!!!!! You sound like you came straight out of the 1950s. Mind your own business and let people be who they are. We’ve already come this far, we’re not going back.
Okay, think of it this way. A girl can have a guy best friend. A guy can have a girl best friend. So a girl can have a girl best friend, and a guy can have a guy best friend. So why in the actual f..k can’t a girl have a female spouse? And why can’t a guy have a male spouse? And yeah, we’re overpopulating anyway, so how does it make any difference? People should be able to be in love with whoever they want, especially if spending their life with them makes them feel whole and secure. If you really like horses for some reason, I wouldn’t judge that, so you shouldn’t judge this. Also, side note, someone married their dog, and that was obviously okay with society….
I am pan and in 5th grade and I looove this song
Love is love ❤ We live in this world, sometimes feel lonely, and sad but their is someone who will supports you for you. I do believe in God, I would never judge anyone for being what makes them happy. You identify as a(n) she/her or he/ his? Ok. You identify as they/them? Ok. You identify as a(n) it? Ok. Do what makes you happy! Why should we try to judge people? The world truly would be better if EVERYONE was nicer than today. I have had moments I wanted to end it all. I remember that someone will support me and anyone else like me. Not trying to force anything. Come on this world is truly crazy and messed up sometimes. Good day/night/afternoon.
I gave up on love when i got out of my most recent relationship because it was my 7th relationship that was manipulative/abusive and toxic. i didnt realize just how toxic it was until she tried to kill me (i am bisexual). she was always yelling at me and hitting me. my best friend finally told me just how much i changed since i started dating the girl who tried to kill me.
What is a far oh wait it is everyone on this website gotten.
Alot of the time it feels like i can finaly be myself when i listen to this song. I cant be myself around people. but when im alone i can finally feel free
As a bisexual, it’s amazing, but I’m scared of embracing it. My family seems to be religious, and my mother (who is not really a homo but respects them) finds it “yuck,” but she will respect it. But I’m afraid of what she’ll think of me and that I should be a woman. It’s just really challenging. Sometimes I wish faith didn’t exist.
Ok, i just gonna say, yes! The lgbtq+ community is a bit nuts. People make it seem like their sexuality is their whole life. Like who you like! I dont need to hear how you are trans, bi and a fricken tooth all at the same time
I agree it’s a good thing to know who you are and if the song helps you to do that great but all these labels they are the problem. I believe that people are people who you like is who you like it doesn’t matter or it shouldn’t matter to anyone else. Your sexuality is a part of you but it’s not the whole picture. Believe me I know that it’s short-sighted and naive to say that people should just be accepting of people as they are and not care about sexuality race or beliefs that contradict their own it (but I’m going to give it a go anyway) how people live their life shouldn’t take away from your experience your life is your own live it without judgment. We should be so much further along as a society but for some reason we all get hung up on these little details… these labels and these judgments that ultimately mean nothing because they change every few years or so I want to be called this or I want to be called that you should go by your name and that’s it live your life people wake up one love one heart one mind I hope everybody has a good day and I’m not trying to push my beliefs on anyone and I hope you don’t either kindness is key be good people I’m out.
This makes me think about my crush so hard like she has a bf and i wanna say to her stop dating him so we can date
Please people go back to God you will regret being gay because God clearly states that man and woman should unite and make a family… Remember every one will answer to his or her crime alone no one will help u and you will go straight to hell. God loves every one and he will forgive you if you accept him and repent bi-sexualism and being gay is not normal. Don’t embrace it because its a very huge problem. God bless y’all
I find it disappointing that she’s still feeding into the gender stereotypes and gender roles,by using a male pronounce to describe a woman based on the so called”role”she plays in a relationship.