Shawn Mendes is getting candid about his sexuality. The singer opened up to his fans during a concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Colorado, where he also performed his upcoming song "The Mountain" which features lyrics about the conversation surrounding his sexuality such as "You can say I like girls or boys / Whatever fits your mold."
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00:00I'm just speaking freely now because I just want to be able to be closer to everyone and just kind
00:05of be my truth. Shawn Mendes is getting candid about his sexuality. The singer opened up to
00:11his fans during a concert at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado on Monday, where he
00:16also performed his upcoming song, The Mountain, which features lyrics about the conversation
00:21surrounding his sexuality. Lyrics such as, you can say I like girls or boys, whatever fits your mold.
00:27Since I was really young, there's just been this thing,
00:31there's just been this thing about my sexuality and people have been talking about it
00:37for so long. I think it's kind of silly because I think sexuality is such a beautifully complex
00:42thing and it's so hard to just put into boxes. It always felt like such an intrusion on something
00:47very personal to me, something that I was figuring out in myself, something that I had yet to
00:52discover and still have yet to discover. The Treat You Better singer, who has been questioned about
00:57the topic for years, added that he's speaking freely now so that he can be closer to everyone.
01:02The real truth about my life and my sexuality is that, man, I'm just figuring it out like everyone.
01:09I don't really know sometimes and I know other times and it feels really scary because we live
01:14in a society that has a lot to say about that. I'm trying to be really brave and just allow
01:18myself to be a human and feel things and that's all I really want to say about that for now.
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