Shawn Mendes & Camila Cabello’s “Señorita”

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The Coen brothers’ 2016 film Hail, Caesar! is a supremely foolish farce concerning the workings of ’50s Hollywood, and considered one of its finest scenes is a few date that’s probably not a date. Josh Brolin performs a behind-the-scenes fixer who retains his studio transferring, and considered one of his jobs is to feed the gossip press. At one level, he units Hobie Doyle, the fresh-faced younger singing-cowboy star performed by Alden Ehrenreich, up on a date with Veronica Osorio’s Carlotta Valdez, a starlet who’s fairly clearly alleged to be Carmen Miranda. Hobie and Carlotta have a cute second collectively at dinner; he charms her by doing rope methods together with his spaghetti. They appear to love one another simply high-quality, however they’re not collectively as a result of they like one another. They’re collectively in order that two twin-sister gossip columnists, each performed by Tilda Swinton, can see them out collectively. Their date is theater, and so they’re each glad to play a component.

Just a few years after Hail, Caesar! got here out, the cunning younger pop stars Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello launched “Señorita,” a supposedly-steamy duet that had the identical vibe as that date scene. Mendes and Cabello went public as a pair on the similar time that “Señorita” got here out, which led loads of individuals to consider that the 2 of them have been collectively totally for publicity functions. The way in which the world works now, we’re all twin-sister gossip columnists displaying as much as the restaurant to listen to that these two cute children are fixin’ to be pleasant. Mendes and Cabello have been visibly collectively for a few years earlier than asserting an amicable breakup on Instagram, and Mendes has mentioned that they actually have been a pair. Perhaps they have been, to the extent that two individuals might be in a relationship once they’re each jetting all around the world to play arenas and movie commercials or no matter. However “Señorita” by no means felt like two sizzling younger individuals singing about being into one another. It felt like a strategic determination, a triangulated bid for max attraction.

And that’s high-quality! {Couples} get collectively out of comfort on a regular basis, and Mendes and Cabello have been each at some extent the place it was handy for them to get collectively, whether or not publicly or in any other case. When a pop-star couple publicizes its relationship standing, that’s the pop machine at work. It occurs on a regular basis. When it occurred with “Señorita,” although, that machine was in a second of disaster. For many of 2019, the songs that dominated the Sizzling 100 have been made by children in bedrooms, not by the pop business that labored so exhausting to make music precision-tooled for the widest-possible swaths of the inhabitants. Lil Nas X’s “Previous City Street” and Billie Eilish’s “Dangerous Man” have been twin left-field triumphs that instructed pop music was transferring in daring new instructions. Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello are generational friends of Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, however “Señorita” was not a bizarre, inexplicable young-folks style fusion like the 2 songs that preceded it at #1. As an alternative, “Señorita” was the machine again at work.

Eight individuals are credited with writing “Señorita,” and a minimum of a few of these writers have histories of constructing their very own bizarre, thrilling left-field pop music. That’s not what they did with “Señorita,” although. As an alternative, “Señorita” is the pop machine’s try to approximate one other outsider wave — this time, the Spanish-language Latin music that began to have a critical Sizzling 100 affect a couple of years earlier. Not one of the individuals concerned with making “Señorita” got here from that world, and the tune isn’t actually Spanish past its title. As an alternative, it’s shiny pop product with out a lot character. Once more: Nothing mistaken with that. This column couldn’t exist if I didn’t like shiny pop product; a whole lot of that stuff is fucking superior. “Señorita” isn’t fucking superior, however it’s a superbly strong instance of the machine at work.

Nonetheless, after “Previous City Street” and “Dangerous Man,” it felt like such a buzzkill to see a tune as flavorless as “Señorita” again on high of the Sizzling 100. Even when the 2 artists have been roughly the identical age as Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, it felt just like the adults have been again in cost — even to the purpose the place they’d inform these two that they needed to be a pair for a short time. I’m not saying that’s what occurred. I’m simply saying that’s the way it felt.

This column has already been over the backstory of Camila Cabello, the Cuban-born lady who first obtained well-known as a contestant on the American X Issue, was pressed into service as a member of the enjoyable however short-lived lady group Fifth Concord, and who reached #1 with the well-timed breakout hit “Havana” in 2018. However that is in all probability the one time we’ll speak about Shawn Mendes, an artist whose path to fame was totally different however who served an identical perform as soon as he arrived. Mendes, like Lil Nas X and Billie Eilish, was an web child. He discovered an viewers by taking part in acoustic cowl songs on Vine, the now-defunct app that preceded TikTok. Mendes would possibly’ve come up by social media, however his star persona had not one of the spiky, absurdist high quality of the opposite pop-star children who developed their personas on-line. He was only a good younger man who needed to be appreciated.

Shawn Peter Raul Mendes grew up within the Toronto suburb of Pickering, and he was a cute and gifted child who needed to be well-known. (When Mendes was born, the #1 tune in American was Brandy and Monica’s “The Boy Is Mine.” In Canada, it was the Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris.”) Neither of Mendes’ mother and father are Canadian. His British mom offered actual property, and his Portuguese father owned a restaurant provide enterprise. Mendes performed soccer and hockey, and he auditioned for some Disney Channel present sooner or later. That may not be his path to fame. As an alternative, he taught himself to play guitar by watching YouTube tutorials, and he began posting movies of himself singing acoustic cowl songs. In 2013, the 15-year-old Mendes went viral with a video the place he lined fellow Ontario teen idol Justin Bieber’s “As Lengthy As You Love Me” for a small crowd of youngsters on a Toronto road, and all the opposite children did the Massive Sean verse. (“As Lengthy As You Love Me” peaked at #6. It’s a 3.)

It makes excellent sense that Shawn Mendes first blew up due to an acoustic Justin Bieber cowl. Musically, he would possibly as effectively be a crossbred lab clone of Bieber and John Mayer. He performs florid acoustic guitar, and he sings high-pitched melodies in his finest white-R&B voice. That’s his complete factor, and he’s by no means developed a lot of a factor past that. Quickly sufficient, Mendes had an enormous base of followers on Vine. You possibly can pull up a YouTube compilation and watch Mendes singing six-second covers of just about each non-rap tune that blew up within the early ’10s. He sang all these songs in the very same approach — making honest faces instantly into the digicam, strumming a few guitar chords, doing honest and quavery melisma with occasional lapses into falsetto, singing the title of the tune and virtually nothing else as a result of that’s all that might slot in a Vine submit. I’m not the target market for these items, and I by no means have been, however loads of individuals have been apparently into it.

Mendes discovered a supervisor, and that supervisor obtained him signed to Island. In 2014, the 15-year-old Mendes launched his debut single, the ultra-generic ProTooled energy ballad “Life Of The Social gathering,” and it peaked at #24. Quickly after that, Mendes launched his debut EP, cleverly titled The Shawn Mendes EP, and toured with a few different teen-idol sorts. His full-length debut Handwritten got here out in 2015, and it debuted at #1 and went double platinum. Its massive hit was “Stitches,” which feels like what would possibly occur within the alternate universe the place Justin Bieber joins Think about Dragons and which peaked at #4. (It’s a 3.) Mendes co-wrote “Stitches” with Teddy Geiger, somebody who discovered non permanent teen-idol standing a decade earlier taking part in a younger musician on the TV present Love Monkey. (Geiger’s solely Sizzling 100 hit, 2006’s “For You I Will (Confidence),” peaked at #29.) Geiger went on to grow to be Mendes’ most important songwriting collaborator within the years forward.

Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello met for the primary time in 2015, when Mendes was simply coming off the discharge of Handwritten and Cabello was nonetheless in Fifth Concord. Mendes was the opener on Taylor Swift’s 1989 tour, and Cabello and the remainder of Fifth Concord have been there to make a shock visitor look on the Santa Clara present. (That was when Swift had visitor appearances just about each night time.) The official story is that Mendes and Cabello wrote their duet “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” on a whim backstage at that exact present, though the observe formally has a couple of different co-writers. Mendes and Cabello launched “I Know What You Did Final Summer time” as a single in November 2015, and it confirmed up as a bonus observe on the deluxe version of Handwritten. That was the primary time that Cabello recorded something exterior the bigger context of Fifth Concord, and that tune and some others helped estrange her from the remainder of the group. (“I Know What You Did Final Summer time” peaked at #20.)

What the fuck is “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” anyway? It’s obtained strummy people guitars, like one of many Mumford-type bands that have been massive on the time. When its drums are available, they’re vaguely funky, like what you would possibly discover on a Bruno Mars observe. Mendes sings his elements in a keening tenor with only a trace of R&B note-bending. He’s technically achieved, however I hear no verve in his voice in any respect. Even when his songs are superficially catchy, as they generally are, they preserve me at arm’s size. I can’t get a purchase order on him. He’s too slippery, in a foul approach. His songs glide previous with out ever making any actual impression on me, and that is my least favourite model of pop music. No less than an extravagantly unhealthy pop tune stands out indirectly. Perhaps that’s why Mendes tracks grow to be extra memorable with the addition of Camila Cabello. On “I Know What You Did Final Summer time,” her vocal efficiency is like an Alanis Morissette impression from a gifted however barely merciless tenth grader. That’s one thing, however it’s not sufficient to push the observe into memorably unhealthy territory. It’s simply unhealthy.

I’m simply beating up children right here, and I don’t be ok with it. So it’s good to have the ability to say that 18-year-old Shawn Mendes managed to generate a minimum of some stage of spiky frisson on Illuminate, his 2016 sophomore album. The songs on Illuminate are nonetheless essentially flavorless, however their pan-genre pastiche has a minimum of somewhat little bit of swagger working for it. Singles like “Deal with You Higher” and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Again” — each co-written with Teddy Geiger, amongst others — exist at some unusual intersecting level between pop and rock. If you happen to squint your ears exhausting sufficient, they might be half-decent ’80s radio fare, and “half-decent ’80s radio fare” neatly sums up Shawn Mendes’ ceiling. Each songs have been decent-sized hits, with “Deal with You Higher” peaking at #7 and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Again” going one spot larger. (The previous is a 6, and the latter is a 5.) Illuminate, like Handwritten earlier than it, went double platinum, although it took a couple of years to rack up that certification. Shawn Mendes wasn’t fairly within the A-list, however if you make a number of double-platinum albums throughout your teenage years, you’re doing one thing proper.

If Illuminate was a slight step ahead, then Mendes’ self-titled 2018 album was a a lot larger step again. It feels ridiculous to pit Shawn Mendes albums in opposition to each other, since we’re actually simply speaking about levels of mediocrity right here, however there’s no progress on Shawn Mendes — not that I can hear, anyway. Is it progress that Mendes began singing about psychological well being points on songs just like the lead single “In My Blood“? On paper, positive, I assume. However I don’t suppose it’s sufficient to handle points when you may’t channel them into compelling artwork. I don’t suppose “In My Blood” is compelling artwork. It’s simply one other mediocre tune, and I want co-writer and former Quantity Ones artist Avril Lavigne had been the one to file it. (“In My Blood” peaked at #9. It’s a 5.)

Not one of the different Shawn Mendes singles reached the highest 10, and the album solely went platinum slightly than double platinum. Shawn Mendes was nonetheless massively profitable, however issues have been slowing down, and so they wanted to be charged again up by some means. In Might 2019, Mendes launched “If I Can’t Have You,” a faintly dance-flavored observe that he wrote and recorded with common collaborators like Teddy Geiger and Scott Harris. That tune actively sucks, however it had somewhat extra business juice than anything that Mendes had carried out to that time. “If I Can’t Have You” was considered one of many who debuted at #2 behind the unkillable “Previous City Street” beast. (It’s a 3.) The world evidently needed frothy, uptempo pop music from Shawn Mendes. Later in 2019, Mendes gave the individuals what they needed.

“Señorita,” the most important tune of Shawn Mendes’ profession, didn’t begin with Shawn Mendes. As an alternative, the tune got here out of a songwriting session that concerned 4 individuals. One in every of them was Andrew Watt, the Submit Malone producer who appeared to have an iron grip on the Sizzling 100 within the days earlier than “Previous City Street.” Watt, whose credit embrace Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” should’ve been harassed when he went an entire 5 months with out a #1 hit, between the Jonas Brothers’ “Sucker” and “Señorita.” One other author on the session was Ali Tamposi, the Florida-born songwriter who’s already been on this column for her work on Kelly Clarkson’s “Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You).” On the time, Watt and Tamposi have been frequently working with former Quantity Ones artist Charli XCX. Charli, Watt, and Tamposi have been writing collectively a couple of days per week. Just a little bit earlier, they wrote Charli’s 2019 observe “White Mercedes” collectively. “White Mercedes” didn’t chart, and it’s fairly peripheral to this specific column. However I’m together with it right here anyway, since I’ve determined that we’ve got to have a minimum of one genuinely good tune and video embedded on this column.

On the session the place they got here up with “Señorita” collectively, these three writers have been joined by a fourth: Jack Patterson, a member of Clear Bandit, the British dance-pop group who made a couple of breezy, summery hits within the mid-’10s. (Clear Bandit’s highest-charting Sizzling 100 hit, the 2016 Sean Paul collab “Rockabye,” peaked at #9. It’s an 8.) The day of the “Señorita” session was Patterson’s first time working with Watt and his collaborators, and he was jet-lagged when he obtained in. The 4 of them spent the day working collectively, taking breaks for the arrival of a nail tech (all of them obtained pedicures) and a classic T-shirt vendor (Tamposi says she purchased “a Minor Risk sweater”). All this was occurring at Andrew Watt’s home. Right here’s how he describes the genesis of “Señorita” in a Billboard oral historical past:

I used to be sitting in my yard earlier than the session, and 4 aliens landed in my yard and sat with me. I had this guitar and I mentioned, “I don’t know what to do concerning the session,” and so they touched me and put this riff up my ass — this fingerpicking someplace between Fleetwood Mac and José Feliciano. Then I went into the session and performed the riff for Ali and Jack and Charli.

Maybe I used to be merely naïve right here, however I didn’t count on Andrew Watt to speak like such a fucking weirdo. If somebody has zero public profile however credit on dozens of huge hits, I count on that particular person to speak like an accountant. Exhibits what I do know. If Andrew Watt is a bit more bugged-out and self-impressed than that, I merely should respect it. I don’t suppose the “Señorita” riff actually sounds something like Fleetwood Mac or José Feliciano, however it’s not a foul little riff. Watt introduced the riff to his collaborators, and Tamposi says that all of them sang melodies over it till they landed on the one which turned “Señorita”: “We latched on to the emotion of the phrase, ‘I like it if you name me señorita.’” How might they not? It’s such an emotional phrase.

As soon as that authentic crew had a primary model of “Señorita” collectively, Andrew Watt despatched the observe to Shawn Mendes. Charli XCX apparently didn’t even think about preserving the observe for herself, and I don’t suppose this is among the conditions the place she would possibly remorse making a gift of a success tune to another person. I hear completely zero Charli on the tune, which I assume signifies that she’s a songwriting skilled, although the tune is likely to be higher if her contact was somewhat extra evident. Watt informed Mendes that he thought the tune might be a duet, and Mendes agreed, however provided that he might make it with Camila Cabello. Charli and Cabello have been opening acts on Taylor Swift’s Fame tour collectively, after which they turned roundabout collaborators with this tune. Mendes and Ali Tamposi recorded a “Señorita” demo, after which the tune sat on the shelf for some time. First, Cabello wasn’t positive that she needed to file it. Then she was prepared, however Mendes wasn’t positive. Whereas all this was happening, Andrew Watt introduced the tune to 2 different hitmaking producers, Benny Blanco and Cashmere Cat.

Benny Blanco has been on this column a bunch of occasions. Cashmere Cat has not. Magnus Høiberg is a former battle DJ from Norway who began making giddy, experimental digital information within the early ’10s. When he began to bubble, Blanco invited him out to the US to work on tracks, and the 2 of them rapidly turned pals and collaborators. Blanco co-produced Cashmere Cat’s solely Sizzling 100 hit as lead artist, the 2015 Ariana Grande collab “Adore,” which peaked at #93. Cashmere Cat co-produced Benny Blanco’s greatest hit as a credited artist, the 2018 Khalid/Halsey collab “Eastside,” which peaked at #9. (It’s a 7.) Cashmere Cat entered the song-machine orbit, and he labored on a whole lot of hits, some with Blanco and a few with out. We’ll see his work on this column once more.

Andrew Watt all the time had a tough time impressing Cashmere Cat. In that Billboard article, Watt says, “I’ve performed him tune after tune, and he’s been like, ‘It’s cool, however I hate it,’ each time.” So when Cashmere Cat appreciated “Señorita,” Watt mentioned that he was “honored” and that he needed Cashmere Cat to do one thing, something, with the observe. Benny Blanco and Cashmere Cat did some manufacturing work on the tune, although it looks like they didn’t do an excessive amount of to change the demo. Cashmere Cat insists that his enter was minimal: “They let me sprinkle a tiny little bit of truffle salt on it. They did all the heavy lifting. I Postmated us espresso. That’s actually all I did.” Watt begs to vary: “Cashmere took it from simply being actually sort of easy and put some nuances in there — the ambient stuff that you just hear is all Cashmere.” I don’t truly hear a lot ambient stuff, but when I did, perhaps it wouldn’t be ambient.

For some time, Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, and all their collaborators didn’t make the time to complete “Señorita.” Finally, each artists obtained to engaged on the tune, each making sufficient adjustments that they obtained songwriting credit. They FaceTimed one another with lyrical concepts, and Cabello modified the tune’s key. Whereas Mendes was on tour, Watt flew to the UK to get him to re-record his vocals. Mendes was irritated about it, since he didn’t wish to put on out his voice earlier than a run of London exhibits, however he went together with it anyway. Finally, Mendes and Cabello obtained into the studio collectively to complete the observe. When the tune was being combined, Cabello got here up with a line that she actually needed so as to add: “You say we’re simply pals, however pals don’t know how they style” — genuinely the sexiest lyric on your entire tune. Mendes needed to come again in and file further harmonies only for that line. Finally, the individuals concerned all completed up the observe when each Mendes and Cabello have been inconveniently between album cycles.

If you hear “Señorita,” you may sort of inform that it’s a tune made by committee. Plenty of attention-grabbing artists had a hand in “Señorita,” however none of them introduced something attention-grabbing to the observe, which looks like an intentional alternative. “Señorita” isn’t constructed to be attention-grabbing. It’s constructed to drift pleasantly by on the radio and perhaps to evoke reminiscences of “Despacito,” and it largely does its job. The manufacturing is glossy. The melodies are strong. The lyrics are dumber than fuck. Camila Cabello’s character loves it when Shawn Mendes’ character calls her señorita, and he or she needs she might fake she didn’t want him. They’re in Miami, and so they’re sizzling for one another, and that’s it. That’s the entire story. Mendes rhymes “sapphire moonlight” with “tequila dawn.” Each of them rhyme “ooh la la la” with “it’s true la la la.” If the hooks didn’t sparkle fairly like they do, then “Señorita” could be the kind of pop tune that someone would possibly write to make enjoyable of pop songs.

I don’t have an issue with cheese. Cheese has all the time had a spot in pop music, and it ought to all the time have a spot in pop music. For probably the most half, “Señorita” is completely satisfactory cheese, however it by no means ascends to the extent of good cheese. The tune appears expressly written to draft on the momentum of the particular Spanish-language pop that’s grow to be an more and more enormous Sizzling 100 presence up to now decade or so, however what it actually recollects is the Y2K second when a bunch of vaguely Latin-adjacent song-machine hits have been getting main TRL burn. A real cheesemeister like Enrique Iglesias would’ve offered absolutely the hell out of “Señorita,” however a pleasant Canadian boy like Shawn Mendes doesn’t have that stage of dedication in him. He doesn’t smolder. Neither does Cabello, actually, although she tries somewhat tougher.

Perhaps the video was alleged to deal with that facet. Video veteran Dave Meyers directed the “Señorita” clip, and he’s the identical man who did Billie Eilish’s “Dangerous Man” video, although you completely can’t inform. The “Dangerous Man” clip is a visible feast, whereas the “Señorita” video is a handsomely photographed retreat into cliché. Cabello is a diner waitress, Mendes is a boy on a bike, and the 2 of them make out sweatily in dumpy lodge rooms. They’re each extraordinarily enticing individuals, however they don’t generate a ton of warmth collectively. Perhaps that’s why so many have been satisfied that they have been a pretend publicity-stunt couple. Perhaps they have been a kind of actual {couples} who can’t convincingly painting an actual couple on digicam. It occurs.

“Señorita” got here out in June 2019. Like “If I Can’t Have You” earlier than it, the tune debuted at #2 behind “Previous City Street.” However “Señorita” had the great fortune to return out nearer to the top of the “Previous City Street” run, and it hung round within the high 5, preserving the appropriate mixture of streams, digital gross sales, and radio airplay. Because the “Previous City Street” summer season drew to an in depth, “Señorita” had its transient run at #1 within the week that Mendes and Cabello sang it collectively on the VMAs. Finally, the one went quintuple platinum.

Neither Shawn Mendes nor Camila Cabello has threatened to return to the #1 spot within the time since “Señorita.” Between the 2 of them, they’ve solely managed yet one more top-10 hit. In 2020, Mendes teamed up with Justin Bieber, the man who supplied a lot of his blueprint, on the #8 duet “Monster.” Bieber sings rings round him on that one. (It’s a 5.) As soon as pandemic restrictions lifted in 2021, Mendes booked a tour to assist Surprise, the album that he launched the earlier yr. After a couple of exhibits, Mendes canceled the remainder of the tour to deal with his psychological well being. He took a while away from the highlight, and he performed the singing voice of the titular reptile within the 2022 children’ movie Lyle Lyle Crocodile. Why did the titular reptile must have a singing voice, you ask? Good query! I don’t know! Lyle doesn’t sing within the rattling books! Crocodiles, even anthropomorphic friend-to-children ones, don’t usually sing! Final yr, Mendes returned with Shawn, an acoustic singer-songwriter album that largely leaves pop-star trappings behind. Lead single “Why Why Why” peaked at #30, and the LP flopped.

Camila Cabello launched her second solo album Romance on the finish of 2019, and it will definitely went platinum with out setting the world on fireplace. For a very long time, that LP’s greatest hit was “Liar,” which stalled out at #52. Finally, Cabello launched a remixed model of the LP observe “My Oh My” with an look from DaBaby, a rapper who will finally seem on this column. That got here out in the course of the transient stretch when DaBaby might flip something into a success, and the remix reached #12. Cabello starred in a completely abysmal 2022 straight-to-streaming jukebox-musical Cinderella film, which has entered web infamy because the sort of factor that may make you cringe so exhausting you would possibly break your face. It’s obtained James Corden voicing a CGI mouse, should you’re into that kind of factor.

Cabello’s subsequent album, 2022’s Familia bricked fairly exhausting. Its greatest single was the Ed Sheeran duet “Bam Bam,” which can have been about Shawn Mendes and which peaked at #21. Final yr, she tried to lurch out of the B-list by driving the hyperpop wave on her LP C,XOXO. It didn’t work, however it was enjoyable to observe her attempt. Lead single “I Luv It” tried a ton of various shit directly — a busy beat from Rosalía producer El Guincho, a Gucci Mane pattern, a verse from future Quantity Ones artist Playboi Carti — and made for a enjoyable little mess. It stalled out at #81. It wasn’t actually a great tune, however I appreciated its moxie. I’d slightly hear a flaming trainwreck than a delicate people file. Comply with-up single “He Is aware of” paired Cabello up together with her 2019 chart rival Lil Nas X and didn’t even make the Sizzling 100. The largest hit from C,XOXO turned out to be the Drake collab “Sizzling Uptown,” which had the cursed luck to return out amidst Drake’s feud with Kendrick Lamar; this column will get to that complete kerfuffle. It peaked at #62.

Throughout the pandemic, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello quarantined collectively, doing a little distant performances and marching in some protests. They adopted a canine collectively. They launched a duet model of “The Christmas Tune.” They introduced their breakup in 2021, after which they have been noticed collectively a couple of occasions in 2023 earlier than breaking apart once more. They proceed to say good issues about one another. About six months in the past, after years of individuals speculating about his sexuality, Mendes mentioned that he’s “simply figuring it out like everybody.” Mendes and Cabello are each nonetheless younger and sizzling, and I wouldn’t be shocked if one or each of them finally return to this column, collectively or individually. If that by no means occurs, they’ll all the time have “Señorita.”

GRADE: 5/10