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You’ll never get Shawn Mendes’s journal, but you’ll get the closest thing to it: his eclectic third album, self-titled to reflect the 19-year-old’s attempt at stamping his anxious, confident, chaotic self at this moment in time… before he forgets it and everything changes again.
“Every album is going to become more honest and
