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Post by Admin on Nov 24, 2020 6:46:14 GMT
The Netflix documentary Shawn Mendes: In Wonder glided over me like a lilac cloud and when it was done, I wasn't sure I had watched anything at all. Neither a rousing concert film nor a juicy "insider's peek" chronicle of fame, In Wonder may be best described as pillow-soft agitprop, an extended commercial inculcating you into the Mendesverse ahead of his new album set to drop next month. (Both Mendes and his manager Andrew Gertler are listed as executive producers in the credits, which tells you more about the film's intent than any single scene.)
Lacking focus, tension or narrative, In Wonder follows Mendes via introspective voiceover and trifling behind-the-scenes footage as he zooms through world tours and Toronto homecomings. I'm not even sure the audience ever gets to hear one of his songs in full here. Instead, we're peppered with brief snippets of Mendes rehearsing or developing a new tune or duetting with pop-star girlfriend Camila Cabello in a venue bathroom. Mendes is winsome. This film is stultifying.
Over the course of 80 minutes, director Grant Singer immerses the viewer into Mendes' day-to-day life: his jet-setting, a vocal injury, the songwriting process, his desperation to grasp even an ounce of normalcy in his high-profile relationship. Mendes remains humble and pensive as he repeatedly recounts his gratitude for the charmed life he leads and the charmed fans he captivates. But this salt-of-the-earth bonhomie soon begins to feel facile as we're seemingly barred from seeing any part of him that isn't hopelessly endearing. In other words, he comes off as humane but never fully human.
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Post by Admin on Dec 5, 2020 19:41:45 GMT
Shawn Mendes is making plans for a long future with Camila Cabello. That's the message he's sending in "24 Hours," a new love song off his fourth album, Wonder. It's no surprise that Mendes would reference his relationship of more than a year—but he's never been quite this candid about moving in with or marrying Cabello.
In the romantic track, Mendes sings, "All it'd take is 24 hours/Sign the check and the place is ours," referring to the couple getting a house together. He continues, "It's a little soon/But I wanna come to you." The real estate limitations of living together in that time frame notwithstanding, Mendes and Cabello were friends for nearly five years before becoming a couple. In March, the couple appeared to be living together and going on infamous quarantine walks. Last month, the pair even got a dog together.
They've dated since the summer of 2019, starting controversy early in their relationship with high-profile PDA. Mendes addresses the criticism in "24 Hours" with the lyrics, " Let's throw away our back up plans/And people might not understand/Who cares about what they approve?/I'd face them all to be with you." The track reads very much like a first dance song at a wedding, which is fitting considering Mendes alludes to marrying Cabello. "We could dance, you could throw the flowers," he sings.
To go even more full-blown romantic, Mendes invokes another famous wedding song—Elvis Presley's "Can't Help Falling in Love"—with the line, "I heard that once a wise man said/'Only fools go rushing in.'" It appears Mendes and Cabello are only fools for one another.
Here, the lyrics to the song via Genius. You can also listen to the song below.
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