NEW MUSIC: SHAWN MENDES | WHEN YOU'RE GONE + VIDEO PREMIERE
Shawn Mendes has dropped his highly anticipated second single and video for “When You’re Gone.” This is the Canadian heartthrob’s first single of 2022, which he co-produced with Jonah Shy and co-wrote with Shy and Scott Harris earlier in the month at South By Southwest in Austin, Texas. Although Mendes hasn’t explicitly said the track about his recent ex Camila Cabello, that’s almost certainly who it’s about. The two artists announced their breakup last November after two years together. The Jay Martin-directed video, shot in Toronto and Austin, features black-and-white footage of the singer hitting the studio to record the track, rehearsing the song and meeting up with fans as the song builds from a contemplative reflection on a relationship gone awry to an anthemic sing-along, the video switches to full colour, culminating in Mendes’ first-ever live performance of the single at the packed Moody Amphitheater during SXSW. The video follows the release of Mendes’ visual for “It’ll Be Okay,” which also addresses the aftermath of a relationship that dropped shortly after the singer’s split with Camila Cabello, his girlfriend of over two years. Mendes will perform “When You’re Gone” and the bank of his hits when he hits the road this year on his Wonder: the World Tour, which kicks off its North American leg on June 27 at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon and wraps on October 26 in Newark, New Jersey at the Prudential Center before heading to Europe.
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