{"id":28516,"date":"2017-06-30T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=28516"},"modified":"2017-06-30T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T10:56:57","slug":"essential-covers-desmond-john-treat-you-better-shawn-mendes-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/06\/essential-covers-desmond-john-treat-you-better-shawn-mendes-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"Essential Covers: Desmond John &#8211; &#8216;Treat You Better&#8217; (Shawn Mendes Cover)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"28517\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2017\/06\/essential-covers-desmond-john-treat-you-better-shawn-mendes-cover\/cover1a-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cover1A-1.jpg?fit=3000%2C3000&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"3000,3000\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cover1A (1)\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cover1A-1.jpg?fit=640%2C640&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28517 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Cover1A-1.jpg?resize=640%2C640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Desmond John&#8217;s latest cover, a version of &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221; by Shawn Mendes, has dropped internationally.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The release comes after his cover of &#8216;Confessions&#8217; by Usher two weeks ago &#8211; the track which broke records for Desmond, hit 1K views on YouTube in 4 days and 1K streams in 6 days.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8216;Confessions&#8217; is now on 1.2K views on YouTube and 3,020 streams on Spotify.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">There is amazing momentum behind Desmond John at the moment &#8211; the teen pop star is currently at 26.7K followers on Instagram. The teaser for &#8216;Treat You Better&#8217; dropped on Wednesday evening and has been viewed over 600 times on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>You can find Desmond John online on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/iamdesmondjohn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/IamDesmondJohn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.snapchat.com\/add\/Desmondjohn7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snapchat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wfMKtSKsOMQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Desmond John&#8217;s latest cover, a version of &#8220;Treat You Better&#8221; by Shawn Mendes, has dropped internationally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28517,"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":[640],"tags":[228,10496,4174,199,77,6925,79,7426,81],"class_list":["post-28516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-cover","tag-desmond-john","tag-essential-covers","tag-guitar","tag-new-release","tag-shawn-mendes","tag-single","tag-treat-you-better","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-7pW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":70923,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2021\/08\/shawn-mendes-releases-new-single-summer-of-love-with-tainy\/","url_meta":{"origin":28516,"position":0},"title":"Shawn Mendes Releases New Single &#8216;Summer of Love&#8217; With Tainy","author":"Emma Mages","date":"24\/08\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Superstar Shawn Mendes has recently dropped his incredible new single \"Summer of Love\" - which was created by the fabulous Tainy! 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