Shawn Mendes has fairly the relationship historical past.
The singer has been linked up to now to Hailey Baldwin, Sabrina Carpenter and Camila Cabello.
As time has gone on, nonetheless, followers have began to invest over the artist’s sexuality… questioning, merely put, if Shawn Mendes is homosexual.
Such chatter has grown so loud that Mendes touched on this very persona topic Monday night time when carried out his new album, Shawn, throughout an small live performance at Crimson Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado.
“The actual reality about my life and my sexuality is, man, I’m simply figuring it out like everybody. I don’t actually know typically and I do know different occasions,” Mendes mentioned.
“It feels actually scary as a result of we stay in a society that has quite a bit to say about that. I’m attempting to be actually courageous and simply permit myself to only be human and really feel issues.
“That’s all I wanna say about that for now.”
Many kudos to Mendes for being so candid.
He additionally opened up about of us speaking about his sexuality since he was “actually younger,” explaining on stage:
“I believe it’s sort of foolish as a result of I believe sexuality is a fantastically complicated factor and it’s so onerous to only put into containers.
“It at all times felt like such an intrusion on one thing very private to me. One thing I used to be determining in myself. One thing I had but to find and nonetheless have but to find.”
Mendes was beforehand caught up in an alleged love triangle between himself, Carpenter and Cabello.
In new observe “The Mountain,” nonetheless, Mendes delves into his sexual preferences… and the way individuals have been so interested by it for therefore lengthy.
“Scripting this tune felt actually necessary to me. It felt like a second the place I might deal with it in a method that felt near my coronary heart,” he mentioned on October 28. “I’m simply talking freely now as a result of I wish to be nearer to everybody and be in my reality.”
Mendes had previously spoken out concerning the stress of coping with rumors about his sexuality.
“At the back of my coronary heart, I really feel like I must go be seen with somebody — like a woman — in public, to show to those that I’m not homosexual,” he informed Rolling Stone again in 2018. “Despite the fact that in my coronary heart I do know that it’s not a foul factor. There’s nonetheless a bit of me that thinks that. And I hate that aspect of me.”
