Barouk here with Young Hollywood, traveling around New York City with Shawn Mendez and all his fans.

Yeah.

Well, Shawn, what's the last year been like? Going from Vine to this, we're surrounded by fans, going through Times Square. Talk me through it.

So I started a thing called Magcon around this time last year and then from then on it's just been like every month kind of like a new surprise and a new explosion and something beyond my wildest dreams that I would not expect, like I was I didn't know I was gonna have this crazy bust with like video playing on the outside. Like it's it's literally crazy, this girls yelling. Unbelievable, right? Unbelievable. I I I really, I don't know how to put it into words.

Speaking of crazy surprises, you recently found out that you'll be touring with Taylor Swift. That is a massive, massive thing. What was the moment that you found out about that?

I was in LA. I was like in in by the pool and uh, it was kind of so nonchalant. Andrew said yeah, so you you got you're on the Taylor tour and I was like, you're kidding, right? It's massive. Like the shows are gonna some of the shows are gonna have like 50,000 people. Those that's like a stadium. That's your biggest show ever, right?

Biggest show ever.

Now, I know you've been talking about wanting to collaborate with M&M one day. Are we any closer to seeing that happen in reality?

I don't know. I maybe I should like tweet at him or something cause I have no idea how to get a hold of M&M. Well maybe he's wat M&M, if you're listening, we I would definitely collab with you.

Now, what about your fans? They've been so amazing to you. They're surrounding us right now. Look at those fans. It's it's What role have they played in your success?

I mean, you guys have done everything for me. I would not be in any position if it wasn't for you guys. I mean, this is like complete, I don't know what dedication is compared like next to this. So this is like, it's really the craziest thing I could ever imagine.

Now, I was chatting with a couple of your fans, Zoey and Katie and they had a question for you. They wanted to know what would you have done had Vine not existed.

To be honest, when I put up my first Vine, I wasn't like, okay, I'm gonna put this Vine up and hopefully it explodes and hopefully one day I become a singer and have my own music and sing my own shows. I put up the Vine because I was like, I want to put a little Vine up and I was like, I had no intentions of this happening. So, I mean, if I had the intentions, I I probably would've went on to YouTube, but like I think it was so cool and so special that it started on Vine. Like that was something so different at the time. So, I mean like, I think that's that's very unique about my situation, which which is really cool to think about.

Shawn, thank you so much.