"I've gone from the girl next door to the bad girl next door."
With a laugh — and an almost audible eye-roll — that's how Dove Cameron describes the journey she's been on with "Boyfriend," the sly, smoky electro-pop single that's made her one of 2022's breakout music acts after nearly a decade of acting work in the Disney Channel trenches. In the song, which has been streamed more than 250 million times on Spotify and YouTube, the 26-year-old enumerates some of the many ways she could improve upon a woman's boyfriend, not least her greater stamina and the fact that the women could share a wardrobe.
"The universe must have divined this," she sings over a snarling spy-movie groove, "Ladies first, baby, I insist."
