{"id":485386,"date":"2019-05-03T01:20:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=830747"},"modified":"2019-05-03T01:20:52","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T07:20:52","slug":"watch-shawn-mendes-artsy-video-for-if-i-cant-have-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-shawn-mendes-artsy-video-for-if-i-cant-have-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Shawn Mendes\u2019 Artsy Video For \u2018If I Can\u2019t Have You\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-03-at-8.10.26-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/shawn-mendes\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shawn-mendes\" data-tag=\"shawn-mendes\">Shawn Mendes<\/a> has dropped a lovelorn new single, \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You,\u201d along with an accompanying music video. The singer co-wrote the track alongside collaborators Scott Harris, Teddy Geiger and Nate <span class=\"m_-2569711814140370465m_-825497151248444176gmail-m-1120484179163431151spelle\">Mercreau,<\/span> and co-produced it with Geiger.<\/p>\n<p>The black and white music video for the single features Mendes in a sparse studio where he sits in front of a backdrop screen on a couch. The camera twists and turns are he moves to a piano, then to a bed, then to a vocal booth, evoking the idea of locking himself in a studio space overnight to record the song. As the singer moves around the studio, eventually ending up on a treadmill, he croons, \u201cEverything means nothing\/If I can\u2019t have you.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"4.6730769230769\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">New single <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IfICantHaveYou?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">#IfICantHaveYou<\/a> is out now! Go listen &amp; download x <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FOkzrr3oc2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/FOkzrr3oc2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6w3Y8Qi7hV\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/6w3Y8Qi7hV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shawn Mendes (@ShawnMendes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ShawnMendes\/status\/1124161850965467136?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">May 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You\u201d comes ahead of Mendes\u2019 appearance as the musical guest on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/saturday-night-live\/\" id=\"auto-tag_saturday-night-live\" data-tag=\"saturday-night-live\">Saturday Night Live<\/a><\/em> this weekend, his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/see-shawn-mendes-deliver-mercy-treat-you-better-to-snl-debut-126546\/\">second time<\/a> on the late night show. He will play the track&nbsp;live for the first time during the show.<\/p>\n<p>Mendes is currently on his World Tour, which boasts over 100 dates in North America, Latin America, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. He will perform throughout North America from June through August. Tickets are currently on sale via the singer\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shawnmendesofficial.com\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-shawn-mendes-artsy-video-if-i-cant-have-you-830747\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shawn Mendes has dropped a lovelorn new single, \u201cIf I Can\u2019t Have You,\u201d along with an accompanying music video. The singer co-wrote the track alongside collaborators Scott Harris, Teddy Geiger and Nate Mercreau, and co-produced it with Geiger. The black and white music video for the single features Mendes in a sparse studio where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485386","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 14:20:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}