Shawn Mendes debuted his new single “No person Is aware of” off his upcoming self-titled album, on the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards.
The music seems to touch upon his break-up with Camila Cabello, who can also be slated to carry out tonight, as he questions, “If you’re so in love and souls contact however it’s nonetheless not sufficient the place does it go? No person is aware of.” In distinction to the opposite performances of the evening, Mendes’ was extra pared down, with the artist taking part in acoustic guitar, accompanied by drums and electrical guitar.
Shawn, the singer’s awaited follow-up to his 2020 LP, Surprise, was written and co-produced by the artist, made with Scott Harris, Mike Sabath, Nate Mercereau and Eddie Benjamin. Grammy-winning songwriter Amy Allen (who helped write Sabrina Carpenter’s newest slew of hits along with being identified for her solo work) and Ethan Gruska (who has produced data for indie heavyweights like Phoebe Bridgers and Bon Iver, in addition to being a profitable recording artist) even have co-songwriting credit. The album arrives on Oct. 18.
Whereas asserting the document on Instagram, Mendes mirrored on the emotional course of of making this document. “Music actually will be drugs,” he wrote. “2 years in the past I felt like I had completely no thought who I used to be. A yr in the past I couldn’t step right into a studio with out falling into full panic. So to be right here proper now with 12 lovely completed songs seems like such a present.”
Mendes continued, “Truthfully thank god for my family and friends. Life will be brutal however having a small group of individuals you deeply belief to stroll you thru makes it so a lot better. I do not know how I might have made it by means of the final couple years not to mention make an album with out you.”
Followers have speculated that the album was written in regards to the dissolution of his on-and-off relationship with Cabello. In earlier single, “Why Why Why,” he sings a couple of being pregnant scare, with the lyrics, “I believed I used to be about to be a father/Shook me to the core, I’m nonetheless a child.”
