Shawn Mendes’s ‘In My Blood’ Is His Most Vulnerable Video To Date

If even listening to Shawn Mendes’s susceptible “In My Blood” was a heart-wrenching experience for you, then just wait up until you visualize the track come alive in the newly released video.


The Jay Martin-directed clip arrived on Tuesday (April 24), and it also centers on an individual shot of Mendes lying on a brick floor, barefoot, stone-faced, and paralyzed. As he sings about the walls caving in, he weathers a series of literal and figurative storms — rocks tumble down around him, then snowstorm along with a rainstorm sweep him up. Just as soon as things seem dire for poor Shawn, the sun peaks via clouds and the bricks under his head give way to a lush meadow of grass and ferns.


Mendes has said that he wrote “In My Blood” about his struggle with anxiety, and the video’s hopeful conclusion suggests there’s a happy ending right following the storm.


“In My Blood” is the opening single off of Mendes’s upcoming third album, which also includes the funky “Lost in Japan” and — if Mendes has anything to mention about it — a lot of songs about drinking alcohol.