The Canadian singer – who in 2022 cancelled a world tour to focus on his mental health – returns with a new album.
NEW YORK – On a rainy summer night, on a club stage in Woodstock, New York, Shawn Mendes was ready for tears. Happy tears, overwhelmed tears. Just some processing-everything-as-it-happens mistiness.
It was a startling admission, especially for a multi-platinum male artiste with a hugely devoted young fan base. If their attention was fickle, he would be gone. At an interview at his favourite recording studio in bucolic Rhinebeck, New York, where he worked on the new album, he seemed as if he had regained the muscle memory of what it means to be a star. But he wore it lightly.
He opened for American pop star Taylor Swift early on and had a seductive chart-topper, Senorita, duetting with American singer Camila Cabello, his girlfriend at the time. He was 23, with 80 or so people on his touring payroll and what felt like the weight of the world’s attention on him. During the Wonder circuit, he was, he said, “severely depressed” in a way that he could not hide.
“I was, like, I’m not going to rewrite the same story that’s been written a thousand times by musicians and artistes, where they can’t cope and they’d start taking more drugs, more alcohol, until it’s too much. I’m not doing that. I’m just going hard left.” Industry experts said Wonder: The World Tour could have generated US$100 million . Mendes acknowledged that he lost a lot of money. He also noted that he was privileged to be able to take that step and that he was “beyond grateful that I wasn’t going to be in debt”.
Splitting his time between a home in Los Angeles and a Toronto condo, it took Mendes a year to set foot in a studio – fleetingly.
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