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How Shawn Mendes Had to Back Away from Music to Be Closer to It · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: Sean Mendes is excited to release his fifth studio album,
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  Speaker 2: simply called Sean, which was pushed back by a few
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  Speaker 2: weeks so he could bring a few more ideas to life.
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  Speaker 2: But he's already stated this body of work feels more
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  Speaker 2: like him and more rewarding than any other project he's
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  Speaker 2: made before.
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  Speaker 3: And this is before it's even been released.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the reasons he was able to create
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  Speaker 2: such authentic music was actually by backing away from it,
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  Speaker 2: he tells John Mayer in Interview magazine. I refuse to
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  Speaker 2: let the industry consume me. At this point, I finally
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  Speaker 2: realized that giving everything to music is not the best
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  Speaker 2: thing for my relationship with it. If I really wanted
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  Speaker 2: to shine, I need to have other love in my life.
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  Speaker 2: But if I want that love to shine, I need
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  Speaker 2: to have music. I'm trying not to over romanticize every
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  Speaker 2: single thing. If there's a good thing, I'm gonna let
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  Speaker 2: it be a good thing, then not suffocated. The words
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  Speaker 2: of Shawn Mendez, There, Why Why Why is out now?
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