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Shawn Mendes: Song Analysis

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Shawn Mendes uses his music as a form of communicating messages to his listeners. These messages mainly consist of relationship problems, relationship advice, personal experiences, and a vivid picture of who he is. Mendes’s messages can clearly be seen in songs like don’t be a fool, mercy, treat you better, three empty words, and others (Hampp). All of these songs are in Shawn Mendes's new album, illuminate, as a result of Mendes wanting his new album to have a “deeper meaning” and seem more like an “actual person” to his fans. Mendes hopes to use his songs to show who he his mainly because he did not want people to misread his words during interviews (Patrick). Mendes always portrays a different message in all of his songs, and each message

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