"Whatever body you have, you deserve to feel empowered and hot. That's part of the beauty of being alive," Canal, who has a limb difference, tells PEOPLE exclusively is redefining what it means to be beautiful — and it's not one dimensional. On Wednesday, Aug.
7, Canal, 25, unveiled the music video to her song "California Sober." Sonically, the song represents a step in a different direction. With the music video, she's embracing her sexuality.
"The music video is inspired by my very exciting summer last year where I went to a lot of queer parties and started exploring my queerness in London," Canal tells PEOPLE exclusively of the music video, which takes place at a house party. "I connect with someone and there's a lot of just tactility and energy, sensual energy. I just wanted to paint a montage of feeling free with someone to explore.
" Her hope for fans is that they feel like "no matter what body they come in, they deserve to feel sexy." "If you're disabled, if you're fat, if you're trans, if you're non-binary, whatever body you have, you deserve to feel empowered and hot. That's part of the beauty of being alive.
We're so hard on ourselves constantly," the "Drama" singer says. Maris Jones Related: "If you feel different in any way, I feel like it's so easy to pick yourself apart about it. I am so over that for myself," she continues.
"I just want to celebrate my body. And I want other people to celebrate their own bodies and connect with each other and dance and let go and have a good time." Canal was born without a right forearm and hand due to a condition called amniotic band syndrome.
This gave her a "specific lens on what it's like to be observed." "People will always define me for that, or that's the first thing that they see. And that's its own journey in terms of acceptance but it's not the whole picture.
I know that. And once they get to know me and know what I've worked really hard at, which is music, that'll be just one piece of the puzzle, but it's not the whole thing," she explains. Body image for that matter is "not linear," she says, but connecting with other women over that shared experience has been "healing.
" Now, she's redefining what being "beautiful" means to her and embraces the challenges. "I work with what I have, and I enjoy that limitations can be tools for creativity. I'm stubborn about the fact that disability and sensuality aren't mutually exclusive.
You can be a sexual being while having a disability," she says. In July, Canal played at Glastonbury Festival with Coldplay and met who was watching the show from side stage. She introduced herself and he ended up giving her a to .
Then, on Aug. 5, she found herself on Instagram and called them "bonkers." Related: "It's been really funny and it's kind of shocking," she says of the romance rumors.
"But what is kind of a bonus is I never knew that...
I mean, back to what I said about people with disabilities being de-sexualized by default. I'm like, 'OK. It's funny, people think that I can be dateable, like Tom Cruise dateable.
'" Still, she wanted to set the record straight: "I don't want to waste time with people thinking that this might be true, because it's just not. I wanted to respect all parties by saying, 'This is what it is, and he's a mentor. I think it's disrespectful to accuse him of otherwise,'" Up next, Canal is embarking on a on Aug.
17 and she's happy to report her debut album is finished. "It feels like the most important project of my life," she says. The music video to "California Sober" is out now.
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