Shawn Mendes has returned to the spotlight with his third studio album, Shawn Mendes, The Album and in a new interview, which is in Partnership with Pandora, Shawn is opening up about his new album, the album process and what inspired his sound.

 

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Shawn says, “A big thing happened to me during this album process. I started realizing that genre walls are broken down.  I was thinking, what do I want the album to feel like? The main thing was rock. Ok, I wanted to go rock…[a] Kings of Leon feel. The next day, I woke up and I had this urge to go R&B. And it was weird because at first I was like, ‘Am I screwing up cohesiveness of an album? Is this bad to do?’ I realize that it’s not about the genre of the song anymore. People don’t care about the genre. If it’s a good song, it’s a good song.”   

 

 

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Shawn continues, “About a year prior was my first time kind of experiencing anxiety and I wrote down in my notes the feelings of exactly what was going on because I wanted to make a song about that and it came out, and friends and family and people and fans [were] saying, ‘This is what I needed. Thank you so much for being this honest.’ After that, I was just so excited for everything ‘cause I took that same honest approach through all the music.”

 

If you haven’t listened to album just yet, DO IT!!! It’s amazing!

 

And check out a clip of Shawn’s vertical video of ‘Nervous’

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