“It’s better than any therapy”: Shawn Mendes’ Million-dollar Mantra To Deal With Pressures of Music Industry
- Shawn Mendes was a teenager when he first caught the attention of people.
- He has found the way to deal with the pressure of being a global pop star.
- He is open to having a new person in his life now that he has found the balance.
Within two years, Shawn Mendes went from a singing sensation on Vine and YouTube to a pop star with a huge fan following. After Justin Bieber, he became the youngest artist to debut at number one on Billboard 200. He achieved a lot of fame at a very young age and that often does some harm along with the good.
There is no doubt regarding the fact that Mendes is a talented artist, but he was also a teenager when he stepped into the industry. The thing with being a young artist in the industry is that the world begins treating the person like an adult. The cameras flash away at their every move and the media scrutinizes every little thing. After a decade in the industry, he has found a way to deal with the pressure.
Shawn Mendes Has Found a Way to Deal With the Pressure of the Music Industry
Shawn Mendes began learning guitar when he was 13 and less than a year later, he began posting cover videos on YouTube. It was a cover of Justin Bieber’s As Long as You Love Me that led to him attracting attention and the rest, as they say, is history. He has come a long way from there and now at 25, he aspires to go further.
However, the 15-year-old Mendes did not know how to deal with the pressure that comes with being in such a competitive field. At 25, the singer has found a way to deal with all of it while also achieving new milestones. His latest album Shawn stands as proof of the fact that he found the balance.
During a conversation with his mentor John Mayer for Interview magazine, the Life of the Party singer revealed how his solo escapades have helped him more than therapy could.
I feel like sometimes my side gig is being a researcher of the word “home” and what it means. That’s a big reason why I do these escapades. It’s so easy to get in the bubble of, like, everything’s about me and what happens in my industry. But you go somewhere else in the world and all that is stripped away from you. It’s better than any therapy.
The Canadian singer-songwriter has now deduced that “home” is not a place. Instead, it is him. He believes that ‘home’ is ultimately the person themselves and not a place on the map they could put a finger on.
Is Shawn Mendes Open to Having a New Person in His Life?
Anyone who was following Shawn Mendes’ career could tell that he was going at a great speed. Some people fail to see when to pull the brakes and get into an accident that either makes or breaks their reputation. Luckily, the Stitches singer is not one of them. He saw when he needed to stop and seek therapy to work on his mental health.
Now that he has achieved the kind of mental fitness needed to keep going in this industry, he is open to having a new person in his life even though he did not particularly abstain from relationships during his journey. When Mayer asked if there was room for a new person, Mendes said:
Absolutely. I refuse to let the industry consume me at this point. I finally realized that giving everything to music is not the best thing for my relationship with it. If I really want it to shine, I need to have other love in my life, and if I want that love to shine, I need to have music.
To put it simply, Mendes has learned that music does not have to be the only thing in his life. He can also focus on other things or people so if someone good comes along, he will accept them and see how far they can go.
