On yesterday’s episode of Ellen, Camila Cabello took the stage to perform “Never Be The Same,” but there was one element of her performance that raised some eyebrows. During the performance of the synth-heavy pop song, Cabello was playing the guitar, which didn’t seem to be super audible in the mix. That caused some skeptics to wonder (as Billboard notes) if Cabello was even actually playing the instrument, or if it was just a prop to make her look more musical.
I'm trying really hard to figure out why Camila Cabello, who clearly does not play the guitar, is using one as a stage prop to wave her hand wildly in front of in some facsimile of "playing" it, for every performance of "Never Be the Same" I've seen lately.
— Jennifer Still (@jenniferlstill) March 21, 2018
Fortunately for Cabello’s reputation, Twitter is full of fans who were ready to defend her honor at a moment’s notice with video evidence that Cabello does, in fact, know her way around a six-string. One fan wrote in a pair of tweets, which included clips of Cabello playing acoustic and electric guitar, “Since when does Camila not play guitar? There’s literally an endless amount of videos of her playing Spanish and electric guitar. She’s been playing guitar throughout her girl group days and first played with her dad as a child.”
https://twitter.com/RobynCamriana/status/976485215735607296
https://twitter.com/RobynCamriana/status/976485989651828738
Plenty of other fans chimed in with videos of their own:
https://twitter.com/retro_camilizer/status/976799434297282560
https://twitter.com/miladel21/status/976581223664398337
Clearly, Cabello has proven on many occasions that she’s comfortable with a guitar in her hands, and although members of girl groups and boy bands are prone to the unfair reputation of not being able to do anything besides sing and dance, that’s just not true with Cabello: She co-wrote all the songs on her debut album Camila, and the record debuted at No. 1.
