Shawn Mendes, the 22-year-old Canadian folk-pop singer with the velour trill, is a bard of puppy love. Throughout his prolific oeuvre — three studio albums since 2015 — the male ingénue guilelessly croons about budding romance and sweeping passion and blossoming youth like a modern-day Romeo hopping from muse to muse. "I can't write one song that's not about you!" he serenades in "If I Can't Have You," his infectiously percussive 2019 single. "Can't drink without thinkin' about you!
Is it too late to tell you that everything means nothing if I can't have you?" His songs are as peppy and mellifluous as his persona is honeyed and nonthreatening.
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