Dove Cameron Says Writing Trauma In New Album Like 'Emotional Spring Cleaning’

Dove Cameron has been in the industry ever since she needed a laugh track when she threw punchlines by herself in Disney's "Liv & Maddie."

Eventually, like many other Disney stars like Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Zendeya, Olivia Rodrigo, and Sabrina Carpenter, Cameron had to come out of her shell and explore her individuality beyond the Disney magic.

In exploring the music scene, the Emmy-winning actress apparently had to revisit her old self and past traumas when she was writing her debut album, "Alchemical Vol. 1."

Dove Cameron 'Alchemical Vol. 1' Inspiration

Speaking to People Magazine, Dove Cameron had to unleash her vulnerable side to share what she had gone through when she was writing "Alchemical Vol. 1."

Talking about some of the music from "Alchemical Vol. 1," Cameron revealed that some of the songs were drawn from the things she experienced 10 years ago.

"Some of these songs are things that I've never been able to write about. I finally felt like if I didn't write about them, I was going to carry them forward with me. "God's Game," "Fragile Things," "Sand," "Still," these more melancholic tracks, they're more focused on who I have been previously before "Boyfriend" and "Breakfast" and "We Go Down [Together]," and that was a really interesting exercise," she added.

Describing her writing process for the album as "emotional spring cleaning," Cameron also mentioned that she "had to go into the attic of all of the stuff I hadn't dealt with and go through them and look at them and put it down on paper. It was really, really good for me as a human being."

Since releasing her lead single "Boyfriend," Cameron has won an MTV Video Music Award, a GLAAD Media Award, and an American Music Award.

Dove Cameron Putting Pressure On Herself?

Elsewhere in the interview, Cameron also shared that while her consecutive career strides affirm her that she is heading in the right direction, it also created a sense of pressure.

"I grew up reading articles about how much pressure people feel when they're writing, when they're releasing albums, when they're doing promo, so I know that that's quite normal, and I've been feeling it a little bit," she said.

According to Cameron, if an artist is "too concerned" about the pressure of going beyond or meeting expectations, they would lose the "childlike experimentation," which she described to be "the joyful part" about being an artist.

Stream Dove Cameron's "Alchemical Vol. 1" below.