Shawn Mendes appears to have addressed gay rumours in a preview performance of his new song The Mountain.
Although the official track has not yet been released, the 26-year-old played the number for his fans at a recent concert date.
‘Some days, I have a change of heart. You can say what you need to say,’ he sang, in video footage that a fan has posted to TikTok.
‘You can say I’m too young. You can I’m too old. You can say I like girls or boys,’ he continued to a round of applause. ‘Whatever fits your mould.’
Although he has been the object of wild speculation about his sexuality, Shawn has only ever publicly dated women, such as Camila Cabello.
Shawn previously flatly denied that he was gay in a Snapchat message to his fans in 2016, while urging them to concentrate on his work.
‘So I don’t usually do this and bring up problems, but I was on YouTube just watching some of my interviews, and I was going down the comments and noticed a lot of people were saying that I gave them a “gay vibe,”‘ he said.
‘First of all, I’m not gay. Second of all, it shouldn’t make a difference if I was or if I wasn’t. The focus should be on the music and not my sexuality.’
