“Forget about all the hooks for one second,” Dave muses. “It’s that organic quality about the song, and the way that Cabello connects with it. It’s just natural.”

Billboard Chart Beat’s Gary Trust and Trevor Anderson welcome back Dave and Yael Penn, co-founders of Hit Songs Deconstructed, as they analyze the compositional characteristics and songwriting and production techniques that helped make Camila Cabello’s “Havana,” featuring Young Thug, a No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 hit.