Shawn Mendes Says He ‘Was About to Be a Father’ on New Song

Shawn Mendes is getting candid on his new tune “Why Why Why.”

“I assumed I used to be about to be a father / Shook me to the core, I’m nonetheless a child,” Mendes, 26, sings within the observe’s bridge, which got here out on Friday, August 9. “Generally I nonetheless cry out for my mom / Why, why, why? Why, why, why?”

He continues, “I don’t know, I don’t know why … Looks like all the things goes ’spherical and ‘spherical / And ’spherical, and ’spherical, and ’spherical it goes / Looks like all the things goes ’spherical and ‘spherical.”

Mendes has not additional addressed the supposed being pregnant scare. The Canadian singer, who has been single since he and on-off girlfriend Camila Cabello break up for good in June 2023, needed the tune lyrics to be very trustworthy.

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“I spotted there was two choices for me. It was actually like, ‘I’m going to go down this path of talking my precise reality or I’m going to bounce round it,’” Mendes instructed Zane Lowe in an Apple Music 1 interview launched on Friday. “It felt pointless to bounce round it, even when the tune was by no means to see the sunshine of day.”

He added, “I used to be like, ‘Why are we right here dancing round it?’ So yeah, it felt like I crossed an enormous threshold. I feel it feels simply actually liberating, even simply to be in an area the place I’ve accomplished that as a author. Now I really feel extra free to try this as a human.”

Mendes additional famous that he “felt no strain” being candid on the tune, explaining, “It was simply a kind of experiences the place there grew to become this joke whereas we had been making the album that was, like, if I began to expertise some fairly heavy nervousness within the studio, everybody was certain that an awesome tune was going to be coming after it as a result of there was some type of therapeutic disaster, some type of breakthrough that was imagined to occur.”

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The tune’s title, Mendes stated, is supposed to be a mantra.

“It virtually felt like a cry. It felt, like, I don’t know. It simply felt highly effective and exquisite,” Mendes stated on Friday.

Mendes launched “Why Why Why” alongside one other new tune known as “Isn’t That Sufficient.”

“I needed folks to really feel the spectrum of the tune and area,” he stated of the musical juxtaposition. “I felt, like, I had a dialog with the followers and with the general public simply to be, like, ‘How are you?’ I wanted to handle that ‘Hey, how have you ever been?’ And I wanted to say again, ‘I’m good. Every thing’s good. It’s going to be good. It’s all proper.’”