Shawn Mendes makes candid statement about his sexuality during Colorado concert

Shawn Mendes gave a candid look at his sexuality this week, telling fans at a concert that he’s “figuring it out like everyone else” while eschewing traditional labels.

The three-time Grammy nominee broached the subject during the introduction of “The mountain”, an unreleased song that will appear on his upcoming album “Shawn”.

“You can say I’m too young, you can say I’m too old,” Mendes says sings on the track. “You can say I like girls or boys, whatever suits you.”

Widely distributed film material of Mendes’ performance on Monday at Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado shows him further developing the lyrics.

“Since I was very young, there has been something about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long,” Mendes told the crowd. as seen on TikTok. “I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to compartmentalize. It always felt like an intrusion into something very personal to me, something I was figuring out within myself, something I had yet to discover and have yet to discover.”

“The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m figuring it out just like everyone else,” he added. “Sometimes I don’t really know, and other times I do, and it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot of say in that.”

After noting that his goal was simply to “allow myself to be human,” he concluded, “That’s all I want to say about that for now.”

Publicly, Mendes has only had relationships with women. He dated Camila Cabello – with whom he collaborated on the smash 2019 single ‘Senorita’ – about two years before the pair split in 2021. Since then, speculation in the tabloids that he is in a relationship with a fellow singer Sabrina Timmermanalthough the timeline of that as-yet-unconfirmed relationship is unclear.

But as Mendes hinted in his concert speech, he is being pursued by rumors about his sexuality some time.

“I thought, ‘You damn boys are so lucky that I’m not actually gay and I’m terrified of coming out’” he told Rolling Stone after reading internet comments suggesting he was secretly gay or bisexual. “That’s something that kills people. It’s that sensitive. Do you like the songs? Do you like me? Who cares if I’m gay?”

Later in that interview, he continued to shrug off the online chatter: “Maybe I’m a little more feminine, but that’s the way it is. That’s why I am me.”

‘Shawn’ will be released on November 15 has been invoiced as Mendes’ “most musically intimate and lyrically honest work to date.” The album’s release comes just over two years after the singer-songwriter a world tour canceled after just seven performances, citing the need for a mental health break.

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