{"id":118607,"date":"2024-10-14T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/14\/shawn-mendes-says-hes-made-room-for-a-significant-other-in-his-life\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T21:01:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T21:01:51","slug":"shawn-mendes-says-hes-made-room-for-a-significant-other-in-his-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/14\/shawn-mendes-says-hes-made-room-for-a-significant-other-in-his-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Mendes says he&#8217;s made &#8220;room&#8221; for a significant other in his life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-10-14\/M_ShawnMendes_AnthonyWilson_073124.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Anthony Wilson<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Shawn Mendes<\/strong> has realized that there&#8217;s more to life than working 24\/7, so he says he&#8217;s left some space in there for a possible significant other.<\/p>\n<p>Shawn&#8217;s buddy and mentor<strong> John Mayer<\/strong> spoke to Shawn for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/music\/i-refuse-to-let-the-industry-consume-me-shawn-mendes-by-john-mayer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong> Interview<\/strong><\/em><strong> magazine<\/strong><\/a>, and John cleverly asked Shawn the question we all want to know the answer to, but he did it in a subtle way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In this all-consuming journey that you\u2019re on, is there room for someone else right now?&#8221; John asked.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Absolutely. I refuse to let the industry consume me at this point,&#8221; Shawn replied. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>John tried to get Shawn to fess up to whether or not he&#8217;s currently involved with someone by saying, &#8220;Are you currently sharing space between your journey and being there for someone else, or are you just leaving that room?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The room\u2019s open,&#8221; Shawn replied. &#8220;Right now I\u2019m trying to not overromanticize every single thing. If there\u2019s a good thing, I\u2019m going to let it be a good thing and not suffocate it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Also in the interview, John asked Shawn if he thinks he&#8217;ll expand his current performance schedule, which has him singing in extremely intimate venues, into an arena tour. &#8220;I\u2019d be surprised if that wasn\u2019t the case,&#8221; he teased.<\/p>\n<p>Asked what he would do differently on a big tour\u00a0after having to cancel his last one,\u00a0Shawn told John, &#8220;Just being really honest with myself, like, &#8216;What is my actual capacity?'&#8221; and &#8220;an incredible amount&#8221; of saying no.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony Wilson Shawn Mendes has realized that there&#8217;s more to life than working 24\/7, so he says he&#8217;s left some space in there for a possible significant other. Shawn&#8217;s buddy and mentor John Mayer spoke to Shawn for Interview magazine, and John cleverly asked Shawn the question we all want<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2024\/10\/14\/shawn-mendes-says-hes-made-room-for-a-significant-other-in-his-life\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}