Shawn Mendes Reveals The One Thing He Can Finally Sing About On His New Album

With his third album on the way, Shawn Mendes has some things to get off his chest. We’ve already heard him tackle topics of anxiety and friskiness — on “In My Blood” and “Lost in Japan,” respectively — and apparently there’s at least one more topic he's getting stoked to sing about.


The 19-year-old appears on the most recent episode of “Hot Ones,” a cruel-but-hilarious interview series where celebrities are tasked with answering questions while devouring chicken wings that get more and more spicier. Mendes, for his part, was decided to consume all of the wings, and he definitely paid the price — throughout the course of the 23-minute vid, his face turns tomato-red, his eyes water, and he sweats, curses, and chugs milk while attempting to grapple with the spice-induced pain.


Speaking of chugging things, whenever Mendes was asked about something that he can finally sing about on his new album that he couldn’t on the opening two, he replied, “Drinking. Finally. Not that I was drinking before I was legal... Yet the legal age in Canada is 19, so it’s finally OK have the ability to talk about drinking on the album.”


Watch the whole interview below to be able to see Mendes sweat it out while discussing Justin Bieber’s hockey skills, Taylor Swift’s birthday party, meeting Drake, and how he “couldn’t care less” about Hufflepuff.