Shawn Mendes HANDWRITTEN with marketing sticker on front cover Format Detail: LP Opaque Yellow

Format Detail: LP Opaque Yellow Vinyl

'Let's Get It Up' and the title track

and while that can't be said of their takes on "Satisfaction

The album is about the gritty "BOOM

Floating through this dimension on the path of least resistance

Shawn Mendes HANDWRITTEN with marketing sticker on front cover Format Detail: LP Opaque YellowShawn Mendes circumvented traditional routes to a recording contract by posting short clips of himself singing other people's songs on the video sharing service Vine. These were no more than a few seconds Vine's restrictions set the limit at six seconds, which is hardly enough time to cover a chorus but it was enough to set some teenage hearts aflutter, which led to a contract with Island, which led to an EP in 2014, which led to the full length debut