Shawn Mendes gets candid about his sexuality, and more news

Shawn Mendes is opening up about questions surrounding his sexuality, sharing that it’s “felt like such an intrusion” because he’s “just figuring it out like everyone.”

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter addressed the topic before performing a new song called “The Mountain” at a show in Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday. Based on fan videos, “The Mountain” seems inspired by rumors about Mendes’ sexuality. “You can say I’m too young/ You can say I’m too old/ You can say I like girls or boys/ Whatever fits your mold,” he sings.

“Since I was really young, there’s been this thing about my sexuality and people have been talking about it for so long,” Mendes said in video captured by fans. “And I think it’s kind of silly because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing and it’s so hard to just put into boxes.”

Mendes added that the speculation “always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me, something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover.”

About “The Mountain,” Mendes explained that “writing this song felt really important to me because it felt like a moment where I could address it in a way that felt close to my heart.”

He continued, “The real truth about my life and about my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone and I don’t really know sometimes, and I know other times. And it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that, and I’m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things.”

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