Shawn Mendes, There’s Nothing Holding Me Back is the latest single from the Illuminate album

Shawn Mendes, There’s Nothing Holding Me Back

The Canadian singer is back with another radio smash. This is the latest single from his Illuminate album.  This song is a change in musical direction for Shawn, who says “I wanted to make something that could play in the clubs, I wanted something people could dance to at parties. I realized I never had that [in my catalog].

Shawn also opened up about the unexpected element of a guitalele in the track. “[It’s] like a baby guitar with nylon strings that sounds like a ukelele.  I went over to my buddy and was like, ‘I’m just going to play this [in the empty space after the chorus]‘. It ended up sounding so badass. It sounds like something you’d hear on an old Justin Timberlake record, right?