Shawn Mendes offered a candid take on his sexuality this week, telling fans at a concert that he is “just figuring it out like everyone” while steering clear of traditional labels. The three-time Grammy nominee broached the subject while introducing “ The Mountain ,” an as-yet-unreleased song that will appear on his forthcoming album, “Shawn.” “You can say I’m too young, you can say I’m too old,” Mendes sings on the track .
“You can say I like girls or boys, whatever fits your mold.” Widely-circulated footage of Mendes’ Monday performance at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre shows him elaborating further on the lyrics. “Since I was really young, there’s been this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it for so long,” Mendes told the crowd, as seen on TikTok .
“I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes. It 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.” “The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I’m just figuring it out like everyone,” he added.
“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.” After noting that his goal was, simply, to “just allow myself to be a human,” he concluded: “That’s all .