Camila Cabello and Shawn Mendes.Photo: John Shearer/Getty
Shawn Mendesen español!
On Wednesday, Mendes, 22, released “KESI, " his Spanish-language collaboration with Colombian star Camilo — and he had a pretty strict coach when it came to his Spanish pronunciation.
“To be fair, not everybody has a Cuban Mexican girlfriend who sits in the studio with them making sure they’re saying every word perfectly,“Mendes told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1about getting lessons from his girlfriendCamila Cabello. “She was like, ‘If you’re going to do this, you got to do it right. You can’t be saying these words wrong.’ And I was like, ‘Okay.'”
Mendes told Lowe that it took him quite some time to get all the lyrics exact.
“It took me hours to get the words right, though. I could not mess that up,” he said. “It was going to ruin our relationship if I said, if there was one … I remember there was one word and I was like, ‘I think it’s fine.’ And she’s like, ‘It’s not fine.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, it’s not fine. I believe you.'”
At the start of the pandemic last year, Cabello shared that she was taking the time to enlightenMendes with Spanish vocabulary.
During his Apple Music 1 interview, Mendes revealed that he’s loved Camilo’s tropical, Latin-style music for a while now and that he slid into his DMs.
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“It reminded me so much of why I fell in love with music in the first place, writing music in the first place. And in a completely different language, I was getting the feeling from him so deeply. And I was like, ‘I really feel like, I feel like I’m kind of like this guy. I feel like I know this guy already,'” Mendes said. “And so I just, I was like listening to, I heard ‘KESI’ and I was like, I’m obsessed with this song.”
“I slid in his DMs and I was like, ‘Please let me do a verse on this song because I’m obsessed with it,'” he said.
Meanwhile, Camilo shared that he’s a “huge fan” of Mendes.
“Just the idea of Shawn singing in Spanish is something that brings me so much joy and excitement,” Camilo said. “So it’s such an honor that he wanted to make this beautiful step in a song that I was doing… It sounds awesome in his voice. Shawn singing in Spanish sounds real.”
“KESI (Remix)” is out now.
source: people.com
