Name: Shawn Mendes interview: Singer on his dream girl and working with The Vamps
Uploaded: 2015-11-29T16:52:29.000Z
Duration: 8 min
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Gerund

My mum's from here so she keeps calling it a fry up, yeah.

So I'm here with the very talented Shawn Mendes, lovely to meet you.

I am, it's really really nice. Except it's a little gloomy today, but.

You should have been here last week, it was literally pouring down with rain every single day.

Oh really? That's okay, that makes it a little bit better. So, you are smashing it at the

moment, your EP number one across the world, that's pretty amazing, you must be feeling

I'm feeling really really good, I know, yeah.

I know you have millions of fans, but for people that don't know you that well, can

you tell us the story about how it all started for you?

Yeah, so basically what happened was a couple of summers ago, when vine just came out, which

is this little app that you can put 6 second videos on, and it was like the summer just

a couple of months after it came out and I posted this little cover of Justin Bieber

As Long As You Love Me, just singing the hook and then, I put it up and then the next day

I woke up and it had 10,000 like and my followers were like 10,000 and I thought the whole program

was lagging for some reason, not realising it was gonna go out of control like that.

I listen to it on repeat and really- it's so good.

Tell me a bit about that song, what it means to you.

It's really about being confident about who you are as a person. As a teenager, being

a teenager, I feel like a lot of my fans can connect with me and relate in a type of way-

you feel uncomfortable, you almost feel like you don't belong in certain situations and

you find it hard to find your place in the world and the song is kinda like a reassurance

to tell you you rock, kind of thing. It's just a good feeling song.

I like that, you rock. That's a good vibe to give out, I like it. Now, we've got to

What has it been like working on the track Cecilia, which is in the top ten, which is

How did you get involved in working with them?

I was on tour with them. We were on the Austin Mahone tour in America and I got really close

with them really quickly, we were always together after the show and stuff. they became really

really good buddies of mine during the tour and, I don't know how really Cecilia came

about, it was out of nowhere. It was like an offer, and I was like. 'Of course, I'd

love to go on a song with them.' Then kinda came about like that. We were really laid

back about and really fun to do something with them.

I don't know, do you see them a a rambunctious group of boys? Like a crazy group of boys.

They're not too crazy. You know what I think about them, they're just really cool. Whenever

Yeah. They are cool but they're crazy. They're so crazy. They're always running around and

grabbing me and throwing me around and they're just like a bunch of gorillas running around

in the same room. Don't put them in the same room together or they'll run around and break

I love that. Now, The Vamps obviously you've worked with, any other big boy bands you'd

like to work with? What about One Direction?

I'd love to work with them, they're really cool.

I must have on Vine. I've one so many. I've done 400 vines, I must have done one of theirs,

I'm sure. I'm sure it was a hit on Vine as well.

Now, you're from Canada. Do you ever get people comparing you to Justin Bieber? people calling

you the next Justin Bieber. What do you feel about that?

I can only take that as a compliment. He's so talented and has an amazing career so I

I've actually been looking at your twitter and I've learnt a few things about you. Apparently

I had the half chicken with the fries which had the peri peri salt on.

Really makes the difference. I was interested in this; you're a big fan of James Arthur.

Obviously, he came from our big show The X Factor and I'm a big fan of him. So, how did

you- Did you follow the show over here? How did you hear of his music?

Since I was younger, I was always YouTubing stuff and I remember always YouTubing American

Idol and X Factor auditions and I cam across his X Factor audition and I fell in love with

what he did. i was following his whole X Factor thing of just YouTube from Canada and he's

a huge huge- He's honestly one of the biggest inspirations. Like, him and Ed Sheeran, massive.

Let's talk about Ed Sheeran. He did actually notice you when you started putting up your

vines. Tell me a bit more about that. I went to go see him at the O2.

He was incredible, I mean there was thousands of people there. He's literally on a stage

with his guitar and you would never think you would be able to hold an audience like

I know, that's why he's such a big idol of mine, because he just can hold hundreds of

thousands of people in his hands just with a guitar and it's just him on stage and he

can make everyone in the stadium quiet so it's really really cool, the way he is on

the stage and stuff. But, yeah, I met him in Los Angeles and it was one of the coolest

experiences ever. Just meeting your idol and someone who I really look up to and he was

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