Shawn Mendes Addresses Rumors About His Sexuality in New Song

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Shawn Mendes Opens Up About “Brutal” Public Split From Camila Cabello

There’s thing holding Shawn Mendes back from singing astir the rumors.

During a caller show successful New York City, the 26-year-old debuted a caller opus called, “The Mountain” from his forthcoming medium Shawn. In a TikTok video shared by a instrumentality connected Oct. 19, Shawn performed the caller single, which seemingly addresses the rumors of his sexuality among with different comments he’s seen astir himself.

In the clip, Shawn strums his guitar arsenic helium strums his guitar and sings the lyrics “I person a alteration of bosom / you tin accidental what you request to accidental / you tin accidental I’m excessively young / you tin accidental I’m excessively old/you tin accidental I similar girls oregon boys / immoderate fits your mold.”

As Shawn sings the lyric, the assemblage begins to cheer successful support.

E! News has reached retired to Shawn’s rep regarding the lyrics but hasn’t heard back.

The opus isn’t the archetypal clip the “Wonder” vocalist has addressed the chatter surrounding his sexuality. In 2020, the “Mercy” vocalist revealed that helium had grown frustrated with the speculation.

"Everyone's been calling maine cheery since I was 15 years old,” helium explained connected Armchair Expert in 2020. “I'm not cheery and I'm like, 'What does that mean?' I had these problems with the mode my dependable sounded. I'm like, 'How bash I sit?' I'm ever archetypal to transverse my legs and beryllium with a presumption of this feminine benignant and I truly suffered with that s--t.” 

And Shawn further gave penetration into however the unrelenting rumors weighed connected him arsenic helium tried to acceptable the grounds consecutive without seeming defensive.

"It was so, truthful frustrating for maine due to the fact that determination were immoderate radical successful my beingness that I was precise very adjacent to, who were cheery and successful the closet,” helium continued. “And I felt similar this existent choler for those people. It's specified a tricky thing. You privation to say, 'I'm not cheery but it'd beryllium good if I was gay—but besides there's thing incorrect with being cheery but I'm not.' You don't truly cognize however to respond to the situation."

Since being thrust into the nationalist oculus arsenic a teen, Shawn’s romances person besides been the taxable of a batch of attention. This includes his on-again/off-again four-year narration with Camila Cabello—which ended for bully successful 2023.

But amid their “brutal” breakup successful the spotlight, the “Stitches” vocalist expressed however important it was for him and Camila to support relationship alive.

“Honestly, I deliberation Camila and I person conscionable done the champion occupation astatine preserving our backstage small occurrence of emotion for each other," helium explained connected the Sept. 30 occurrence of The Jay Shetty<ital podcast, "because nary substance however beardown mentally you are erstwhile determination are millions of radical commenting connected it, it’s truthful hard not to beryllium affected by it and to beryllium swayed by it and to beryllium inspired by it."

Keep speechmaking to look backmost connected Shawn and Camila’s romance…

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Making Music

Back successful 2015, Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello archetypal made headlines unneurotic not arsenic a couple, but arsenic a philharmonic duet connected their associated deed single, "I Know What You Did Last Summer."

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When You Call Me Señorita

Four years later, the performers' new steamy euphony video for their "Señorita" duet, released successful June, raised eyebrows implicit whether determination was a romance brewing down the scenes. 

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Hand successful Hand

The pursuing month, the 2 were spotted holding hands portion retired unneurotic successful West Hollywood. "They were telling radical they were a couple," a root told E! News astatine the time. Soon after, the stars were seen getting adjacent in San Francisco. 

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Miami Makeout

While the 2 had not publically confirmed their narration status, this steamy makeout successful the Miami h2o did each the talking

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Birthday Boy

The rumored brace rang successful Mendes' 21st day together successful August 2019, including a large buss for the birthday boy. Cabello besides declared her emotion for her philharmonic beau implicit connected Instagram. 

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Steaming Up the Stage

At the 2019 MTV Video Music Awards, Camila and Shawn stole the amusement with a sexy unrecorded show of "Señorita" as viewers waited to spot if they would kiss. 

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Courtside Cuties

After laughing disconnected breakup rumors successful October 2019, their romance was connected afloat show arsenic they made retired courtside throughout a hoops game

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Miami Livin'

Shawn revealed that during the pandemic, helium went to Miami to unrecorded with Camila. "Something truly beauteous for maine came retired of it, which was you're not allowed to leave," he told Zane Lowe in 2020. "I went to Miami and I was surviving with Camila [Cabello] and her parents and her sister." 

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Puppy Love

Relationship milestone alert: They welcomed a caller subordinate of their household aft picking up a puppy named Tarzan in November 2020.

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Bumps successful the Road

Shawn revealed helium and Camila get into fights from clip to time. "We decidedly fight, and we get successful similar the worst small arguments," helium said connected SiriusXM's The Morning Mash Up in August. "But, like, I deliberation that we decidedly are beauteous bully astatine picking up connected erstwhile it's conscionable ego talking. And we like, usually similar telephone each different out. We person a truly honorable and unfastened relationship—but, yeah, no, we decidedly fight."

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Fairytale Premiere

Shawn was by Camila's broadside portion she walked the reddish carpet for the premiere of Cinderella successful September.

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Met Gala Moment

Shawnmila attended their archetypal Met Gala together successful 2021, wearing Michael Kors Collection looks.

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Halloween Hangout

The brace celebrated Halloween unneurotic successful 2021, penning connected societal media, "Feliz día de los muertos." 

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Going Their Separate Ways

The mates announced their divided connected Nov. 17, 2021. As they wrote, "we've decided to extremity our romanticist narration but our emotion for connected different arsenic humans is stronger than ever." The brace added, "we started our narration arsenic champion friends and volition proceed to beryllium champion friends." 

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Coachella 2023

The brace reunited astatine Coachella successful April 2023 and were seen kissing during the festival. 

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Rekindling the Flame

After their Coachella moment, Shawn and Camila were spotted hanging retired a fewer times during aboriginal summertime 2023—including astatine a Taylor Swift concert—but yet called it quits erstwhile much successful June. 

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