Shawn Mendes's 'In My Blood' Gets A Tender Piano Makeover Courtesy Of Charlie Puth

Shawn Mendes's "In My Blood" is a full-throated stadium hymn, influenced by the 2000s rock pantheon (and key Mendes inspiration) of Kings of Leon. Charlie Puth, meanwhile, primarily pumps out bouncy R&B with collaborators like Kehlani and Selena Gomez. Although what would "In My Blood" sound like in Puth's silken hands?


That's the question posed by BBC Radio 1's continuously great covers Live Lounge series serious. And the response, as it turns out, is a lot closer to Puth's piano-led "Change" melody, which he performed at March for Our Lives earlier this year (and which gets a visitor appearance from James Taylor on his newest album, Voicenotes.)


Puth's a skillful seducer, although he plays this one pretty straight group in attempt to best capture the song's tone, only dipping into his beloved jazzy seventh chords a couple of times. I won't lie: segment of me was a little bit disappointed he didn't make "In My Blood" a funk freakout along the lines of what The 1975 did with Justin Bieber's "Sorry."


Yet then again, Puth's fragile falsetto sounds pretty nice aching over the repeated pleas of "Somebody help me right now Check that out above.