{"id":6936,"date":"2020-11-21T00:45:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T00:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=6936"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:25:38","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T01:25:38","slug":"justin-bieber-shawn-mendes-song-monster-video","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/justin-bieber-shawn-mendes-song-monster-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Justin Bieber And Shawn Mendes Get Emotional In New &#8216;Monster&#8217; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Shawn Mendes, Justin Bieber - Monster\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MPbUaIZAaeA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Both Shawn Mendes and Justin Bieber have been &#8220;put up on a pedestal&#8221; for most of their respective music careers and now the artists are humbly coming together for a monstrously cool collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the pop stars released their highly-anticipated debut track &#8220;Monster&#8221; and accompanying music video. The single, which will be featured on Mendes&#8217; upcoming fourth studio album, <em>Wonder, <\/em>was first teased back in September when he launched an interactive VR experience on a website for the album, in which a set list showed a track titled &#8220;Monster&#8221; with a special guest. It wasn&#8217;t until earlier this week that the 22-year-old and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/ariana-grande-justin-biebers-stuck-with-u\/\">Bieber<\/a> both posted a 13-second teaser clip on social media, officially announcing the release date of the collaboration. The song lyrics touch on the anxieties of living up to certain expectations and the <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/selena-gomez-opens-up-about-losing-control-after-her-breakup-from-justin-bieber\/\">pitfalls of fame<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As Mendes asked in the chorus, &#8220;What if I, what if I trip? \/\u00a0What if I, what if I fall? \/\u00a0Then am I the monster? \/\u00a0Just let me know.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was 15 when the world put me on a pedestal \/ I had big dreams of doin&#8217; shows and making memories \/ Made some bad moves tryna act cool, upset by their jealousy \/ Lifting me up, lifting me up \u00a0\/ And tearing me down, tearing me down,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/justin-bieber-interview-hailey-selena\/\">sings Bieber<\/a>. &#8220;I&#8217;ll take responsibility for everything I&#8217;ve done \/ Holding it against me like you&#8217;re the holy one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-6949 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/126456143_1220914028301839_5268413894091478776_n.jpg\" alt=\"Justin Bieber and Shawn Mendes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1279\" data-gz_credit=\"Instagram\/Shawnmendes\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the moody music video, directed by Colin Tilley, Mendes and Bieber are shown walking through the dark woods and then delivering an emotional performance of their song atop a white platform as lights flash around them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think I was coming off the back of a couple of big songs and definitely just so driven by my ego and just feeling like something in this feels not right,&#8221; Mendes told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hnu7KYoeK0w\" target=\"_blank\">Apple Music&#8217;s Zane Lowe<\/a> of the collaboration. &#8220;And it&#8217;s always resonated with me. This song has always resonated with me and it just never found its way out. And now all of a sudden I was listening to it one day, and I just started my relationship with Justin. It just started forming properly in the last three months. And I called him and I was like, &#8216;Look, I have this song. It&#8217;s kind of going there.&#8217; We go there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about how society can put celebrities up on a pedestal and watch them fall and it seems to be this entertainment thing. And it&#8217;s hard,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;And his heart fell deep into it. And him and I, even yesterday, were on the phone for an hour and had the deepest conversation, I think, about so much. And it just felt really nice because it was a full circle moment for me, this guy who was the reason I started singing. I was nine when &#8220;One Time&#8221; came out, and I completely was all\u00a0<span class=\"skimlinks-unlinked\">in. He<\/span> was Elvis to me. And to come back around and to have this very human-to-human conversation with him and his truth to come into that song and my truth to be there, it feels like one of the most special songs I&#8217;ve ever wrote. And the more I listened to it and the deeper I get into it, this is not just about celebrities. This is the human experience.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width wp-image-6953 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/11\/Bieber-and-Mendes.jpg\" alt=\"Bieber and Mendes\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Rumors about a possible collaboration began in July 2020 after Bieber&#8217;s manager Scooter Braun posted videos of the 26-year-old, Mendes and Tori Kelly jamming around a piano. A month later, Mendes, Bieber and<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/hailey-baldwin-tattoo-justin-bieber-ring-finger\/\"> his wife Hailey Baldwin<\/a> were spotted at Andrew Watt&#8217;s recording studio in Los Angeles, fueling speculation of an upcoming collaboration between the two Canadian artists.<\/p>\n<p>The song marks the first time the two singers have worked together. 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