Name: Shawn Mendes Followed Alessia Cara from Twitter in 2013 to Tour Today
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And I just love that you're putting out new music.

Even though -- 'Cause you're busy. You're on tour.

-Yeah, I'm on tour. This came out of nowhere.

Like, I wanted to, like, take a break for a year.

-You got to do what your brain says, yeah.

-Yes, exactly. -How do you find time to record?

-I actually called my producer, Jon Levine, out.

And we basically just, like, made a little makeshift studio

on the tour bus, and, like, started, like, fleshing out --

Is it "flushing" or "fleshing?" I never knew.

'cause I don't know if it's "flushing" or "fleshing" out.

-Fleshing out songs. -Fleshing it out, yeah.

We could flush it out too. -Flush it out.

-But that sounds -- I think it's fleshing.

-But the song -- your new song, "Rooting for You."

-What's the idea behind that song, "Rooting for You"?

-It's kind of like -- I feel like it's a similar situation

that we all kind of go through where we are having,

And you think it's going great, and then it takes a turn.

And you're kind of, like -- it's almost like watching a movie

and, like, seeing the protagonist go the wrong way

-"I was rooting for you. Why'd you got to go and do that?"

-Yeah, like, "No, come on, man. I loved you."

-Yeah, that's kind of what happened to me.

-And you tried to get Tyra, was it, Tyra Banks?

-Yeah, 'cause I don't know if you guys have seen --

There's, like, a clip in "America's Next Top Model"

where she's yelling at this model who, I guess, like,

wasn't passionate about what she was doing.

I don't really know the context, but she was just --

We were all rooting for you. How dare you?!"

And I wanted to put that in. [ Applause ]

I tried to, like, get that in the beginning of the song,

but her people or her, like, they didn't answer my e-mail.

So I couldn't add it in. I couldn't add the sample in.

-Rooting for you. -I mean, what are you doing?

-If you see this, we're still rooting for you.

[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah, we love him.

He said that he's been a fan of yours since 2013.

-It's, like, an old tweet that he said, "Who is this girl?

She's dope. Does anyone know if she's got Twitter?"

Do you remember this at all? -I do, yeah.

I remember when it happened too 'cause my --

I wasn't, like, doing music at the time at all,

so, like, my Twitter had like 50 followers or whatever.

And I started getting all these crazy mentions

And I was like, "What's happening on my Twitter?

And I was, like, "Hey, that's, like, the Vine singer guy.

And then we kind of kept in touch throughout all the years,

pretty much the same place in Canada almost.

-Isn't that amazing it starts right there?

-And now we're touring together. It's so weird.

-That's great. And then you're doing your own tour.

-I am. I'm doing my own tour. October 21st is the first date.

-You told me about this fun thing -- this fun thing

that you do with your girlfriend when you're on tour.

It's just a fun joke. But can you explain the joke to me?

-Thank you. It's a metal straw. -Don't use plastic straws.

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Shawn Mendes Followed Alessia Cara from Twitter in 2013 to Tour Today

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