“I feel like if it’s a friend of mine that’s performing…you can see from the crowd if people are sitting down or standing up,” Camila told ABC News backstage. “And I feel like it means a lot to me when I see…like, Taylor [Swift] was standing up [for me during] my performance.”
“And so, when Shawn [Mendes] performed, when Taylor performed…I like to stand up for my friends so that people feel good,” she added. “‘Cause it’s pretty nerve-wracking!”
Besides standing up for her pals, Camila has another award show ritual which she uses to keep herself from freaking out when she has to perform.
“I’m a person that, in general, being around a lot of people and all that stuff, is overstimulating for me,” Camila told ABC News. “So…[before I go on], I always just remember being a little girl, and how hard I worked for such a long time…I remember all the hard times and all of that.”
It must have worked, because Camila gave a beautiful orchestral performance of her song “Consequences” on the AMAs. She later tweeted about the moment, “When I heard these strings and this orchestra my heart scrunched up, because i just felt this overwhelming love for music. Music is MAGIC, and it’s moments where you feel that…that I live for.”
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