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Shawn Mendes has joined Sabrina Carpenter and his ex-girlfriend Camila Cabello on the listing of artists scheduled to carry out on the forthcoming 2024 MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) amid rumors that the three have been concerned in a love triangle.
MTV introduced on Tuesday (August 27) that Mendes, Anitta, Karol G and LL Cool J could be becoming a member of its beforehand introduced lineup of performers, together with Carpenter and Cabello, who have been introduced earlier this month.
The information comes days after Carpenter launched her new Quick n’ Candy album, which she lately defined was impressed by a few of her previous relationships.
“I known as it Quick n’ Candy for a number of causes. It was not as a result of I’m vertically challenged,” she advised Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on a current episode of his eponymous radio present. “I thought of a few of these relationships and the way a few of them have been the shortest I’ve ever had, they usually affected me probably the most.”
Within the album’s opening monitor “Style,” Carpenter sings about discovering out her ex is again collectively together with his former associate.
“I heard you’re again collectively and if that’s true / You’ll simply must style me when he’s kissin’ you / In order for you eternally, I guess you do / Simply know you’ll style me too,” she sings.
This has led to the resurfacing of an outdated rumor that she was as soon as concerned with Mendes in between his on-and-off relationship with Cabello.
The Canadian “Deal with Me Higher” singer was first linked to Cabello in 2014; nonetheless, they didn’t publicly affirm their romance till 2019, once they made their first purple carpet look collectively on the Grammys. The 2 then cut up in 2021. In 2023, Mendes was noticed having dinner with Carpenter, main followers to imagine the 2 have been relationship.
Later, Mendes outrightly denied the rumors throughout a June 2023 look on the Dutch TV program RTL Boulevard, saying: “We aren’t relationship.”
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The subsequent month, Mendes and Cabello sparked reconciliation rumors after they have been seen kissing at Coachella. By June 2023, the 2 had reportedly cut up once more, with Cabello talking out about their last breakup in March of this 12 months.
“It’s what it’s. It was an excellent route, it was a enjoyable time. It was a enjoyable second,” she stated on an episode of Alex Cooper’s Name Her Daddy podcast.
A number of followers have since reacted to the information of the three reuniting on the September awards ceremony, with one eagerly tweeting: “Oh I so want the be there! The DRAMA!”
“You’re telling me camilla, sabrina, AND shawn are performing on the vmas?? diabolical,” a second wrote, whereas a 3rd agreed, saying: “[This] is gonna be so awkward assist!”
“VMA’s stated we are going to serve drama this 12 months by selecting Sabrina, Shawn and Camila to carry out,” one other commented.
It isn’t but recognized what songs the three are planning to carry out on the September 11 ceremony, although they’ve all launched new music this 12 months.
Each Carpenter and Cabello are among the many nominees competing in a number of classes at subsequent month’s awards ceremony being held on the New York UBS Area.
The 2024 MTV VMAs will air dwell on September 11, starting at 8pm ET/PT.
