Shawn Mendes has joined Sabrina Carpenter and his ex-girlfriend Camila Cabello on the list of artists scheduled to perform at the forthcoming 2024 MTV Video Music Awards ( VMAs ) amid rumors that the three were involved in a love triangle. MTV announced on Tuesday (August 27) that Mendes, Anitta, Karol G and LL Cool J would be joining its previously announced lineup of performers, including Carpenter and Cabello, who were announced earlier this month. The news comes days after Carpenter released her new Short n’ Sweet album, which she recently explained was inspired by some of her past relationships .
“I called it Short n’ Sweet for multiple reasons. It was not because I’m vertically challenged,” she told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on a recent episode of his eponymous radio show. “I thought about some of these relationships and how some of them were the shortest I’ve ever had, and they affected me the most.
” In the album’s opening track “Taste,” Carpenter sings about finding out her ex is back together with his former partner. “I heard you’re back together and if that’s true / You’ll just have to taste me when he’s kissin’ you / If you want forever, I bet you do / Just know you’ll taste me too,” she sings. This has led to the resurfacing of an old rumor that she was once involved with Mendes in between his on-and-off relationship with Cabello.
The Canadian “Treat Me Better” singer was first linked to Cabello in 2014; however, they didn.