Shawn Mendes is becoming more open and honest about his sexuality than he’s ever been during his career. The 26-year-old singer spoke candidly with the audience during his For Friends and Family Tour concert on Monday (October 28) at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado. Shawn sings about his sexuality on his new song “The Mountain” and he made honest comments about his feelings while introducing the song at the show. Keep reading to find out more… “I was really young when I started.
I was 15 years old,” Shawn said. “The truth is that I didn’t get to do a lot of 15-year-old things and discover parts of myself that you do at 15.” “Since I was really young, there’s this thing about my sexuality, and people have been talking about it so long.
I think it’s kind of silly, because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes,” he continued. “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 it,” Shawn said. “Writing the song felt really important to me because it felt like a moment where I could address it in a way that felt close to my heart.