Shawn Mendes

I’ve always admired Shawn Mendes for his music and his reputation. His albums are one of the few that I will actually listen to in their entirety – which is rare for this chronic song-skipper. And so, when I sat down to watch his Netflix documentary “Shawn Mendes: In Wonder” this weekend, I was expecting [...]

Dear Shawn Mendes, You do not know me, but I feel like your song “In My Blood” was written for me. Every lyric in that song felt like it was written to show me that if you can make something great out of your struggle, so can I. I’ve spent my life feeling misunderstood, not [...]

Shawn Mendes’s latest single is called “In My Blood.” I like the song, I like him, but… there’s one line I can’t get behind — and it’s at the very the core of the chorus. It isn’t hard to commend Shawn Mendes, or any other artist for that matter, for speaking out about anxiety, depression [...]