“The sensitive pop heartthrob makes romance sound sweet and scary on his fourth album”
“The pop heartthrob’s lovestruck fourth album comes across like your friend who just got into a relationship and won’t shut up about it: You’re happy for them and also tremendously bored.”
“‘Why are we wasting time?” wailed Shawn Mendes on Treat You Better, the multiplatinum hit from his last album, Illuminate. It’s a sentiment you find yourself revisiting while watching Shawn Mendes: In Wonder, a deadly feature-length Netflix documentary that accompanies the release of his similarly titled new album. As it unspools, Mendes emerges as a kind of earnest pop singer-songwriter analogue ”
