I realized the trick is like, show her the really rough demo version from your phone that you recorded, and if she doesn’t like that, she’ll tell you, then don’t wait to show her the mixed finished product.

And she was with me when I was kind of in the studio doing it. I haven’t seen her actually in like a month and two weeks, not that I’m counting,” he told co-host Nicole Ryan, who wondered if Cabello had heard Shawn’s just-released single “Wonder” and what she thinks of it. “She’s back really soon and I think it’s interesting ’cause when your girlfriend is an insanely talented, real musician who writes her own music, it’s scary to write an album around her. Mendes sat down with SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up on SiriusXM Hits 1 to describe how his girlfriend inspired him to write his upcoming album and how he can’t wait to see her again after more than a month apart. “She’s doing amazing.