Shawn Mendes gets candid about his sexuality, and more news

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Shawn Mendes is opening up about questions surrounding his sexuality, sharing that itโ€™s โ€œfelt like such an intrusionโ€ because heโ€™s โ€œjust figuring it out like everyone.โ€

The 26-year-old singer-songwriter addressed the topic before performing a new song called โ€œThe Mountainโ€ at a show in Coloradoโ€™s Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Monday. Based on fan videos, โ€œThe Mountainโ€ seems inspired by rumors about Mendesโ€™ sexuality. โ€œYou can say Iโ€™m too young/ You can say Iโ€™m too old/ You can say I like girls or boys/ Whatever fits your mold,โ€ he sings.

โ€œSince I was really young, thereโ€™s been this thing about my sexuality and people have been talking about it for so long,โ€ Mendes said in video captured by fans. โ€œAnd I think itโ€™s kind of silly because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing and itโ€™s so hard to just put into boxes.โ€

Mendes added that the speculation โ€œalways 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.โ€

About โ€œThe Mountain,โ€ Mendes explained that โ€œwriting 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.โ€

He continued, โ€œThe real truth about my life and about my sexuality is that, man, Iโ€™m just figuring it out like everyone and I donโ€™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 Iโ€™m trying to be really brave and just allow myself to be a human and feel things.โ€

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