Shawn Mendes is addressing hypothesis about his sexuality, saying that it’s “felt like such an intrusion” as a result of he’s “simply figuring it out like everybody.”
The 26-year-old singer-songwriter spoke concerning the topic earlier than performing unreleased observe “The Mountain” throughout a live performance at Colorado’s Pink Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday night time. In line with fan footage of the track, “The Mountain” appears to be impressed by rumors round Mendes’ sexuality. “You may say I’m too younger/ You may say I’m too previous/ You may say I like women or boys/ No matter matches your mould,” he sings.
“Since I used to be actually younger, there’s been this factor about my sexuality and other people have been speaking about it for therefore lengthy,” Mendes mentioned in video captured by fans. “And I believe it’s form of foolish as a result of I believe sexuality is such a superbly complicated factor and it’s so arduous to only put into bins.”
Mendes continued that the hypothesis “at all times felt like such an intrusion on one thing very private to me, one thing that I used to be determining in myself, one thing that I had but to find and nonetheless have but to find.”
Of “The Mountain,” Mendes mentioned that “penning this track felt actually vital to me as a result of it felt like a second the place I might deal with it in a method that felt near my coronary heart.”
He added, “The true fact about my life and about my sexuality is that, man, I’m simply figuring it out like everybody and I don’t actually know typically, and I do know different occasions. And it feels actually scary as a result of we dwell in a society that has lots to say about that, and I’m attempting to be actually courageous and simply permit myself to be a human and really feel issues.”
Mendes had beforehand addressed the hypothesis in 2016, when he was 17 years previous. In a video posted on Snapchat, he mentioned: “Initially, I’m not homosexual. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a distinction if I used to be or if I wasn’t. The main target ought to be on the music and never my sexuality.”
Mendes’ new album, “Shawn,” is about to launch on Nov. 15.
