-You've been on, and you had the first album,
and that did really well.
Then, the second album,
we were all -- we were just hoping for you,
and then it just crushed -- number-one album again.
And I think you were on before you announced
that you were doing Madison Square Garden?
-Yeah.
-And you sold out in five minutes.
-Totally, and I -- I remember -- it's crazy 'cause --
[ Cheers and applause ] Yeah. [ Chuckles ]
-Good for you.
-And it's just weird because I feel like --
it's very weird to be sitting here right now, actually.
I've never -- I'm always seeing you from right there, and...
-That's true. -...this is very different.
-If you want, I could sit over here.
-I mean, maybe that would make me feel --
[ Laughter ] If you were like, beside --
-Yeah, just stand, yelling at you from over there.
-No, but it's crazy. You -- I mean --
-Yeah, normally, you're over there, performing.
-You've seen me from the beginning of my career,
from first single, first album, first sellout, to now.
-Yeah. -It's really crazy.
-I'm so excited for you.
-Now you trust me enough to talk to me.
[ Laughter ] -Yeah, I mean...
like, a little bit.
I'm warming up. I'm warming up.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I just want to get to know you.
And for people that don't know you --
of course, everyone does --
but there's stories like -- that I heard
that you taught yourself guitar off of YouTube.
Is that true? -Totally, yeah.
I mean, I went to a lesson.
And it was you go into the lesson,
and they're trying to teach you, like,
one, two, three, four notes,
and all I want to do is play a song, a cover song.
And so, I quit that and then just went on YouTube.
It's easier because you get to learn
the songs you want to learn, right?
And you get to play them at your own pace.
-Is that how you got kind of discovered?
-Yeah, I literally --
It was crazy because I got the guitar
like four months before I put up this video online,
so I was pretty bad at playing guitar,
but the video [Chuckling] still went viral, luckily,
and that's why I'm here right now.
So, anyways... -No, I mean, no.
But you're obviously -- [ Laughter and cheers ]
No. You can play. You can sing. You can sing.
You can sing. -Thank you, man.
-And you just -- you just got a good look to you, man.
-You just know how to do it. -I appreciate that.
-You rock every single time you come on here, yeah.
They -- You know what I'm talking about.
-[ Laughs ] [ Cheers and applause ]
-Actually, that was my first -- Last time I was back here
was my first standing ovation ever at a TV thing.
It was really, really cool.
-Ah, see? It's the best. -Yeah.
-You crush it. What was the first song --
Do you remember the first song that you learned?
-I think it was "Stitches." And I did it with you guys.
-Oh, no, not the first song you did here.
-Oh, I'm thought preformed. Sorry.
The first song I learnt... -Yeah.
-...was "The A Team" by Ed Sheeran.
I remember that was kind of the reason, like,
I wanted to get a guitar was 'cause he released this,
like, very acoustic guitar, you know, driven ballad...
-Yeah. -...and I was like, "All right.
Now I need to get that and play that song."
-Do you ever think that, in the -- in the back of your head
that people are gonna go on YouTube playing your songs
and become famous?
-They do. Well, I mean, they kind of are.
It's super weird.
I mean, there's, like, this video
of this kid singing "Stitches,"
and he, like, reenacts the whole video
of, like, me getting hit and stuff.
And the video -- [ Light laughter ]
The video -- He does it better than me, too.
[ Laughter ]
-That's the worst. Yeah, oh, yeah.
-It is the worst. And he's better-looking, too.
But the video -- [ Laughter ]
It has like -- It has like 80 million views.
-What?! -I know.
It's like -- It's like this, like, remade version of my song.
-Obviously, yeah. -Yeah, see if you can find it.
-Yeah. -[ Chuckling ] Yeah.
-Oh, yeah. It's called "Esposito."
-Yeah, yeah, yeah. -I've seen it, yeah.
-That's the one. -That's a good song.
It's a good song. [ Laughter and applause ]
It's a good -- I've seen this. -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
-Yeah, I've seen this, yeah.
-And, so, anyways, he did a good job.
But, yeah, it's really weird. I mean, I guess...
Are you friends with Ed Sheeran?
Are you guys buddies? -Yeah, actually.
I met him when I was about 15,
and then I kind of kept in touch,
'cause, obviously, he got rid of his phone.
So, it was like, "I don't know how to talk to this guy."
So I guess it was like e-mailing every few months.
-Yeah, how do you get in contact with Ed Sheeran?
-You have to -- You have to e-mail his e-mail
that I almost just said out loud,
and that would have been really bad.
[ Laughter ]
-I think it would have been funny
if you gave Ed Sheeran's e-mail.
Oh, that would have been so fun! -That would have been so fun.
-Please. -He would have killed me.
-Oh, Ed would've loved that, man.
-He already doesn't have a phone.
He would have just been so mad. -He'd be like, "Oh, I'm so mad."
He showed up at your show in Brooklyn a couple weeks ago.
-Yeah, he did. He definitely did that do that.
-And, uh... [ Cheers and applause ]
...that was cool of him. -It was very cool.
I mean, I was in the middle of tour,
and all of a sudden, it was like --
I got this e-mail. It was like,
"Hey, Ed -- Ed said he's gonna come out."
I'm like, "What do you mean? He's gonna come and play?"
-Yeah. -They're like, "Yeah, yeah.
'Mercy' -- he's gonna come sing that with you."
I'm like [Chuckling] "Okay." So I was like --
-Didn't sound check, nothing? He just showed up.
-I was literally like 1:00 p.m. the day of the show.
I went to his hotel.
I knocked on the door, and it's, like, pitch black.
And I'm knocking on the door.
-He's like, "E-mail me, you idiot!"
[ Laughter ] -His security guard's banging --
"Ed, wake up!" Banging on the door.
Opened the door, it was, like, pitch black,
and Ed just, like, jumps out of bed,
like, puts his glasses on.
He's like, "Yeah, where's the guitar at?"
Finds the guitar, and he, like, starts playing "Mercy."
And I'm, like, right there, and this is all happening.
Next time I saw him was on the stage.
-The other Ed -- -It was crazy.
-The other Ed that you're into right now --
you're into Eddie Vedder -- I heard about this.
-Yeah.
-Because of the "Pearl Jam Twenty," was it?
-Yeah, the "Pearl Jam Twenty," but I also was really lucky --
I was in London, and he was doing a show at the Apollo,
just, like, a very small, like, theater, acoustic show.
And forgive me -- I didn't know a ton of Pearl Jam stuff,
but I obviously knew some, and I went in.
And I think, out of all the live shows I've ever seen,
it literally him and an acoustic guitar and an electric guitar,
and it was the most life-changing thing ever.
For me, it was like --
I hope, like, you know, 25, 30 years from now,
like, I can get on a stage and just -- with one guitar
and play all my songs and people love it
just as much as they did, you know, back in 2017,
which sounds kind of crazy.
But, like, that was how it felt. It was crazy.
[ Cheers and applause ] -I think you will.
-I hope so. -I think it will happen.
-Yeah. -Yeah. I think you got it.
[ Applause ]
Do you ever get star-struck? I mean, you're a kid.
Don't you ever go like, "Oh, my God"?
I mean, I freak out. -Yes.
I'm like, "Oh, my God! Shawn Mendes! Aah! Aaah!"
And I freak out.
But, I mean, you -- you -- you've opened for Taylor Swift.
-Yeah.
-You've performed with everybody.
-I'm just like mildly star-struck every time.
You know, like, no matter who you kind of meet,
your heart starts to race a little bit.
But, I mean, like, the few times I was really star-struck
was meeting Drake when I got to meet him for the first time.
It was like this weird thing.
Like, first -- Like, in my head,
like, Drake was just like the god,
[Chuckling] 'cause I'm from Toronto,
and it was, like, meeting him was this very crazy thing.
And, actually -- -Like a mysterious thing?
You're like, "I know he's from Toronto,
but no one's ever seen him." -You don't see him.
-Yeah, exactly. Yeah, he's not...
-I actually have a really funny story.
The other night, I was in Toronto,
and I went to see The Weeknd.
I'm switching artists all over the place in Toronto.
But, anyways, I'm watching The Weeknd,
and we're up on this riser,
and Drake's also there, watching the show,
along with, like, another few artists and stuff.
And I go over, like,
"Oh, that's Drake. I'll go say hi.
Like, he must, like, remember me from previous experiences --
like, twice." [ Laughter ]
And... -Oh, no.
[ Laughter ]
-And -- -Oh, no.
I know how this is gonna end. -Yeah, no. I go over --
So, I go over, and I see him. He's a huge guy, right?
You don't just go over to him -- I guess not.
So, I go over, and I go to, like, touch his side.
His, like, 6'6", 300-pound security guard --
Whhhh! -No.
-Next thing I know I'm, like,
I'm, like, in the middle of The Weeknd show
with, like, my arm hooked behind my back.
[ Light laughter ] Like, with his --
Drake's security guard, like, has me
just, like, completely at his mercy.
And I -- -"No one touches Drake!"
-And I'm -- And I'm like, "Oh, no!"
Like, and I see Drake look over.
And then my eyes, I knew it was like, "Help me, please, Drake."
[ Laughter ] Like -- Like, in that moment,
if he didn't remember who I was,
I was -- It would have just been the most embar--
I would probably just -- I don't know what I would have done.
I would have been so -- -You'd be in jail.
-Yeah, I would have been in jail.
-You would have been thrown out. -Yeah.
And luckily, like, he, like, looked at me,
and then I saw him, like, put the things together in his mind,
and he realized it was me.
And he comes over and, like, grabs the guard.
He's like, "Don't do that. You don't know who that is?"
And I was like -- I was -- I was terrified.
-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
But I love it. [ Cheers and applause ]
Don't mess with Drake, man. -No.
-That's the moral of the story. -Not even --
I mean, the -- I mean, for the security guard's sake,
was doing his job. -Yeah, of course, yeah.
-You really can't blame him, but...
-Yeah, but still. -But, still, it was terrifying.
-Now you hire that security guard when you go to Toronto.
-Do not -- Yeah. -Take him from Drake.
-Don't expect everybody to know who you are.
-[ Laughs ] -Otherwise --
-Oh, I learned that many times. -Yeah, yeah.
-Yeah. -No.
-You are off -- You're getting on a plane tonight,
and you're headed off to Brazil. -Yeah.
-Man, oh, man, I'm so happy for you, dude.
-Thank you, man. -Stay as cool as you are.
-Thank you.
-Shawn Mendes, everybody. [ Cheers and applause ]
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