Pop Justice — Includes the most Julia Michaels song you've ever heard, by Shawn Mendes. The post New Music Friday: let’s just say the No Rome single is better than ‘U2 x Cheat Codes’ appeared first on Popjustice. more info

Idolator — All grown up. The post His Best Yet: Stream Shawn Mendes’ Expansive Self-Titled LP In Full appeared first on idolator. more info

Stereogum — Shawn Mendes will finally exit his teen years this August, but you can't take his youth away. So sang the suburban Toronto native Sunday at the Billboard Music Awards, alongside Khalid -- another young pop star born in '98 -- and survivors from the P... more info

USA Today Music — Charlie Puth and Shawn Mendes may seem to be the same person to the casual listener. But you'll hear the difference when you play Mendes' lonely, lovelorn self-titled new album, out Friday.             more info

New York Times — On the 19-year-old singer and guitarist’s third album, his own instincts take a back seat to others’ influences. more info

Chicago Sun-Times, IL — Mendes has a knack for pop hooks, but "Shawn Mendes" has a quieter, funkier and more soulful vibe. more info

MTV.co.uk News — There's nothing holding him back now! more info

MTV.co.uk News — “I’ve never experienced goosebumps like that on stage before – it was really really special...” more info

Stereogum — The 2018 Billboard Music Awards opened with a speech from Kelly Clarkson calling for moments of action instead of moments of silence in the wake of last week's Texas school shooting. (Though she noticeably avoided the word "gun.") Later in the ni... more info

Perez Hilton — Shawn Mendes' pre-Billboard Music Awards performance talk was all about his partnering with the school choir from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School for a powerful performance of Youth, and boy, did they ever deliver! Equally alongside on stage wit... more info