I simply in no way imagined that the lengthy Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello lore would be relevant in 2024, but here we’re… thanks to Sabrina Carpenter. In case you live beneath a rock and overlooked it, Sabrina currently launched her new album, Short n’ Sweet, and she appears to cope with Shawn and Camila in several of the songs.
Shawn and Camila had been near on account that 2014, and that they dated from 2019 to 2021, and alternatively for some months in 2023. Before they rekindled their courting, Shawn reportedly dated Sabrina in early 2023. Now, Sabrina, Shawn, and Camila are all acting songs ~allegedly about every other~ at the Sep 11 VMAs, because pop culture is so back. We love to see that 2013-stage chaos.
As dedicated college students of pop culture, it’s time to refresh our memories and overview Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello’s complete relationship timeline. (This timeline could pass on for 6 novels — I chose the crucial moments.)
Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Relationship Timeline
2014: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Meet At Austin Mahone’s Tour
Shawn and Camila met as babies (younger teenagers) once they both opened for Austin Mahone, of all of us.
November 2015: They Release “I Know What You Did Last Summer”
My 15-yr-old self ate this up. Camila’s first-ever music outside of Fifth Harmony turned into this random but catchy collab with Shawn. They wrote the music while behind the scenes at a Taylor Swift live performance (classic), and the lyrics element infidelity in a courting. Definitely, some thing neither of them had any enjoy with that point.
November 2015: They Deny Dating Rumors
The kiddos gave their publicists complete-on panic assaults during their interview on The Late Late Show. When host James Corden requested in the event that they had been dating, Shawn and Camila each quick spoke back, “No,” in unison. “Every time I make a move, she just swerves me off,” Shawn joked (?). Camila exclaimed, “He friend-zones me, he calls me child!” It’s extraordinarily obvious from this video that they have been already in love back then, however the denial is endearing.
May 2018: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello His “Favorite Person In The Whole World”
During a chat with Zane Lowe to sell his self-titled album, Shawn gushed about Camila. “Oh my God, she is my preferred character within the whole world,” he said. “I don’t assume you’ll ever meet any individual who can experience emotion like her, in all elements. Her love for what she believed in became so effective that it simply sort of pushed me to love make an entire album out of suggestion of the only night.” So platonic.
June 2019: They Release “Señorita”
For those of us who’d been following this flirty friendship for five years, this became insane. In the sultry duet, Camila sings: “You say we’re simply pals / But buddies don’t know the way you taste / ‘Cause you know it’s been a long term coming / Don’t you let me fall.” It become essentially an unofficial courting assertion.
July 2019: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello ultimately start courting
At lengthy final, they officially turned the friendship into a dating and had been spotted keeping palms in West Hollywood and partying collectively for the 4th of July. Later that month, Shawn and Camila were additionally seen making at a cafe in San Francisco.
August 2019: They Give A Steamy Performance Of “Señorita” At The VMAs
The most iconic difficult launch in history, perhaps? Shawn and Camila introduced a amazing sensual overall performance of “Senõrita,” whole with excessive eye touch, Camila dancing on Shawn, and a couple of nearly-kisses. Lives were changed.
October 2020: Shawn Reveals All His Songs Are About Camila
Shawn shared a glimpse into his courting with Camila in his Netflix documentary, Wonder. Shockingly, (this is sarcasm), she is his best muse. The “Stitches” singer says within the document: “My tune comes at the radio or some thing and I’m like, ‘Everything’s about you. They’re all … They have constantly been about you.” Camila was seemingly amazed. “She is going, ‘What do you imply?’” Shawn recalled, and he answered to her, “They’re all approximately you. Like each tune I’ve ever wrote.”
Where is my Shawn Mendes.
November 2020: They Adopt Their Covid Puppy, Tarzan
You can comply with Tarzan, one of my favored influencers, on Instagram at @tarzandadog. Back when Camila and Shawn notion they were getting married, they adopted the Golden Retriever collectively and brought him to the world with extremely good cute pix and motion pictures on Instagram.
August 2021: Shawn Says He And Camila Get Into “The Worst Little Arguments”
Shawn low-key foreshadowed Breakup #1 all through an interview on SiriusXM’s The Morning Mash Up. “We get in, like, the worst little arguments, but, like, I think that we virtually are quite top at picking up on when it’s just ego speaking,” he stated. “And we normally name each other out… I think the longer the connection goes, the less complicated it seems to be to combat. So, yeah, it’s absolutely no longer that, protecting fingers all of the time, but we’re actually desirable with each different.”
September 2021: They Attend The Met Gala Together And “It’s Giving Cher”
We all take into account wherein we have been when that video of Shawn and Camila getting equipped for the Met Gala got here out. “It’s giving Cher” will by no means no longer be iconic — thanks, Shawn.
November 2021: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Announce Their Split
Sadly, it stopped giving Cher rapidly after that. Shawn and Camila announced their split a few months later with a joint assertion on their Insta Stories. “Hey guys, we’ve determine to cease our romantic relationship but our love for one another as human is more potent than ever ❤️,” they wrote at the time. “We started out our relationship as high-quality buddies and could continue to be satisfactory friends.”
April 2023: They Reunite At Coachella
Spoiler alert: They did now not stay quality pals for all time. A year and a half later, they had a PDA-crammed Coachella reunion and rekindled their romance for some months.
June 2023: Shawn And Camila Break Up Again
But unfortunately, they realized they broke up for a motive the primary time and parted methods again. There turned into no Insta Story declaration from Shawn or Camila this time around, but a supply told People that the “timing changed into incorrect.” According to the insider, “Shawn is still developing and coming across himself. He needs time to himself to do what makes him glad,” the insider stated. “He has loads more dwelling and studying in his future.”
March 2024: Camila Opens Up About Their Split On Call Her Daddy
Camila spilled the breakup tea on Call Her Daddy, evidently. “You’re just type of like, it’s not a suit, it doesn’t experience proper,” she stated. “And I assume, fortunately, I become in a place in my existence where it took me much less time to comprehend that. It took us both less time to be like, ‘This doesn’t sense right and we don’t need to try so tough to make it work.’”
She brought, “I will continually care approximately him and love him. He’s this sort of properly character and I’m lucky because some human beings have exes that are lousy, and he isn’t. He’s a sincerely type, true man or woman.”
July 2024: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Hang Out At a Miami Soccer Game
Fans wondered if Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello were gonna strive dating a 0.33 time once they have been noticed collectively at the Copa América very last between Argentina and Colombia. But in keeping with a People supply, “They had been there coincidentally. She in reality took her dad as her date.” Ah yes, Shawn become simply coincidentally at a prime occasion in Miami, Camila’s hometown and the city that inspired her new album. I’m certain he had no concept she would be there.