{"id":22627,"date":"2016-08-23T16:28:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=22627"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:28:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:28:34","slug":"shawn-mendes-teases-with-track-mercy-ahead-of-illuminate-album-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/08\/shawn-mendes-teases-with-track-mercy-ahead-of-illuminate-album-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Shawn Mendes Teases With Track &#8216;Mercy&#8217; Ahead of &#8216;Illuminate&#8217; Album Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"22630\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/08\/shawn-mendes-teases-with-track-mercy-ahead-of-illuminate-album-release\/james-minchin_160329_s_09_h_079_ret_as_re-03-low-res-jpeg-2\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/James-Minchin_160329_S_09_H_079_RET_AS_re.03-low-res-jpeg-2.jpeg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"Shawn Mendes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/James-Minchin_160329_S_09_H_079_RET_AS_re.03-low-res-jpeg-2.jpeg?fit=640%2C480&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-22630\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/James-Minchin_160329_S_09_H_079_RET_AS_re.03-low-res-jpeg-2.jpeg?resize=640%2C480&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Shawn Mendes\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>With his new album, &#8216;Illuminate&#8217; set for release on September 23, internet sensation Shawn Mendes teases his fans with his new single, &#8216;Mercy&#8217;. It&#8217;s a deeply\u00a0emotional track destined to pull on your heart strings. It&#8217;s a ballad with Shawn&#8217;s huge vocals and a multi-layered instrumental track featuring guitar and piano.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s a love song that will have you caught between humming along and crying &#8211; it&#8217;s moving and beautiful, and we hope it says a lot about what to expect from &#8216;Illuminate&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Mercy&#8217; follows the smash hits &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lY2yjAdbvdQ\" target=\"_blank\">Treat You Better<\/a>&#8216;, which topped the charts in over 25 countries, and album tracks, &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=m-nCLLnQA5c\" target=\"_blank\">Ruin<\/a>&#8216;, and &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=XtOr7R1V5ac\" target=\"_blank\">Three Empty Words<\/a>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Shawn Mendes is set to come to the UK next month ahead of the release of &#8216;Illuminate&#8217;.\u00a0You can stream\u00a0&#8216;Mercy&#8217; on <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/album\/3v83rWlFBPbYT7HnC0wCZT\" target=\"_blank\">Spotify<\/a>, and preorder &#8216;Illuminate&#8217; from <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/gb\/album\/illuminate-deluxe\/id1130689846?app=itunes&amp;ign-mpt=uo%3D4\" target=\"_blank\">iTunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.spotify.com\/?uri=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3v83rWlFBPbYT7HnC0wCZT\" width=\"300\" height=\"380\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With his new album, &#8216;Illuminate&#8217; set for release on September 23, internet sensation Shawn Mendes teases his fans with his new single, &#8216;Mercy&#8217;. It&#8217;s a deeply emotional track destined to pull on your heart strings. It&#8217;s a ballad with Shawn&#8217;s huge vocals and a multi-layered instrumental track featuring guitar and piano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":22630,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[673,3937,199,6927,6928,6926,144,370,874,6925,346],"class_list":["post-22627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","tag-canada","tag-canadian","tag-guitar","tag-illuminate","tag-internet","tag-mercy","tag-new-album","tag-new-single","tag-piano","tag-shawn-mendes","tag-vine"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-5SX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23308,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2016\/09\/shawn-mendes-lights-a-flame-with-new-album-illuminate\/","url_meta":{"origin":22627,"position":0},"title":"Shawn Mendes Lights A Flame With New Album &#8216;Illuminate&#8217;","author":"Lisa Hafey","date":"22\/09\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"To those of us who use a wide range of social media, Canadian pop star Shawn Mendes will be a familiar name. 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