Wonder

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Shortly after Shawn Mendes released his self-titled third album in 2018, the superstar hit a rough patch. “I was coming off the back of a couple really big songs and was just so driven by my ego,” he tells Apple Music, explaining that he’d become laser-focused on cranking out hit single. “It’s addictive… It’s destructive. You miss out on the most beautiful part, which is the proce.” Through meditation, journaling, and self-care, Mendes reconnected with the joys of making music and wrote two of his most personal songs to date: the Justin Bieber collaboration “Monster” and “Song for No One,” both of which appear on his wide-eyed fourth album <i>Wonder</i>. The project portrays an older, more mature musician than the one we knew. On this album he’s spiritual, connected, and blissed out, deep in love and lost in thought. “I’m still trying to know myself,” he say, “but that’s the beauty of it. This [album] is like an audio scrapbook. It shows the things I thought about—how fearless I wa, but also how scared I wa.” Written and recorded in California and eventually Miami, where he moved in with girlfriend Camila Cabello and her family during the pandemic, the album is as much about discovering love’s little delights as it is about seeing the big picture. “Quarantine has been really hard, but something beautiful came out of it: stillne,” he say. “When my head wasn’t so consumed with what people thought and how many likes or streams I was getting, I was able to think, like, ‘What is happening in this world? How do I feel about it? And what can I do?’” .

via Apple Music

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