Here Are Dove Cameron’s Studio Session Essentials

Dove Cameron has landed on the perfect name for her debut album: Alchemical: Volume 1, defined on the album’s site as “involving a seemingly magical process of transformation, creation, or combination.” Though she’s been singing throughout the course of her career, Cameron has gone through something of a “transformation” over the last decade, from Daytime Emmy Award-winning Disney actor (Liv and Maddie, The Descendants franchise) to billion-streaming chart-topping singer. 

“Boyfriend” – Alchemical: Volume 1’s 2022 viral hit – reached No. 2 on Billboard’s Top 40 Pop Chart and cracked the Top 20 on the Hot 200. Cameron followed up with the multimillion streaming “Bad Idea” and “Girl Like Me,” her singular cover of Edwyn Collin’s 1994 song, “Girl Like You.” She converged with Khalid for “We Go Down Together,” with Diplo, Sturgill Simpson, and Johnny Blue Skies for “Use Me (Brutal Hearts)” and with Marshmello for “Other Boys.”

Ramping up to Alchemical: Volume 1’s drop on December 1st, Cameron turns the focus inward, presenting her most personal musical work to date, releasing the sharp-edged banger “Lethal Weapon” and the emotional ballad “Sand” in quick succession. About the album, she says, “Alchemical: Volume 1 is a report from the void of my own personal experience with love, sex, loss, trauma, darkness and eventually transformation and healing. I hope you hear yourself and we can meet in these moments in time together.”

Here, Cameron shares the 10 essentials she takes with her to every studio session.