Fame | Shawn Mendes

Chapter 65; Answers & Fun

Idk but the song made me cry 🤷🏼‍♀️😂
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"Hello everyone, today I'm here with the lovely Jamila Carver!" the interviewer introduced me, enthusiastically.

"Hey," I smiled, happily.

"Shall we jump right into the first question?" he asked, looking up from his cards.

"We shall," I nodded, making a weird hand gesture.

"Alright, tell me about album two. Untold Stories it's called, right?" he asked even though he already knew and had it probably written on his cards.

"Yes, what do you want to know?" I asked not knowing where to start.

"Just anything in general. Writing process, recording, anything," he shrugged and I nodded, quickly preparing some sentences in my head before talking.

"Well, I have to admit that this album is kind of dark, I'd say. There are songs that I never thought I would want to put out there and it's a lot of personal stuff on there. Kind of nerve wrecking to think that in just three days it's out there for everyone to hear especially the people who inspired certain...songs. Like, it's crazy and I have no idea how my fans will respond to it but I really do hope everyone will like it as much as I do."

"You said certain people inspired certain songs. Do we get to know who?" he asked, obviously wanting to know the juicy stuff and hoping he would be the first one to get me to answer that.

"Uhm, there is this song called 'Angel' and it's about my neighbors grandmother who I'd always saw as my own and she sadly passed away a few months ago. The song is kind of just about how amazing she was and how she had always giving me strength and believed in me even when I made bad decisions. It's dedicated to her," I said with a sad smile.

"My condolences," he said sincerely and I nodded, appreciating it.

"We heard that you moved into a house a while back. Why did you decide to buy a huge house for yourself at such a young age?"

"My family wants to visit me often and when they do I wanted to have enough space for everyone. Usually, when they come visit all of them come that's why I decided against an apartment because I don't want them to stay at a hotel and they always want to stay as long as possible," I laughed before continuing.

"I also like the space. I can run around the house whenever I'm high on sugar and I have so many awesome ideas just yesterday me & Harry filled a whole room with these plastic balls that kids play with. I have an open room where I can look down from the second floor and now since the room is filled with these balls you can just jump in there from the seconds floor and get back up with a ladder that I have yet to buy because diving and searching for the door isn't as easy as you would think," I said, making the interviewer laugh, loudly.

"You really did that?" he asked not believing it.

"I did. It's so much fun and there is more to come I'll keep you updated," I joked and he laughed again probably thinking I'm crazy but I like having fun so I don't care what people think.

"Let's come back to the album, since you revealed all the song titles already there are a couple of songs I really want to know what it's about," I nodded, waiting for him to tell me which songs he was thinking off.

"First on my list is 'Untold Stories'."

"Untold Stories is about...untold stories, obviously," I shrugged and we both laughed as he said 'duh' like a diva.

"No but seriously, it is indeed about different kind of stories from my life that are yet to be told," I said, simply.

"Alright, alright. Second one we have 'I Want You To Know'."

"That song is about a person that I want to know so much about me, my life, my world in general but I just never got the chance to tell that person anything, really."

"That sounds interesting, last but not least 'You Know Who You Are'."

"Yes, the song is about people who had like an impact in my life. Good or bad doesn't matter. There are certain stories told in the song similar to 'Untold Stories' but like completely different and instead of writing a song about every person with its stories itself I kind of just threw it all together and tried creating not just one emotion in a song but like the positive and negative emotions and aspects right after one another just like a roller coaster ride."

"Seems like you put much thought into the concept of songs and the album itself. How was the writing process? Did you like sat down a few weeks and wrote the whole thing or how did you do it?"

"I wrote a lot while I was on tour with Shawn Mendes and before that so after tour all I did was record it. I did add a song or two at the last minute but the majority of songs was written before and while being on tour. Also I wrote almost all of them in the afternoon or preferably in the evening and at night. I just think I write better songs the later it gets," I explained.

"You mentioned Shawn Mendes. Let's talk about him, shall we?"

I chuckled and he took that as a yes.

"Since the two of you are together is it hard when the other one is on another continent or doesn't it bother you?"

"It does bother me. When I'm waking up and he's going to bed or just in general that we can't see each other for weeks. It's never easy but we text, call and facetime a lot and whenever someone has some time off we try and make it work to meet up," I explained and just thinking about him, makes me miss him so damn much.

"I have to admit the two of you are so cute and my niece has pictures of the you two all over her room," he told me right before we ended the interview. I signed something for his niece and we did a picture before Andre & I got out of there and into the car that was waiting for us.

"You know I think I have to tell you something and I don't know how you will react," Andre told me as the car drove off. "What is it?" I asked, curiously.

"Since the baby is coming in like nine weeks I just, uhm, I think I might have to take a break and be there with Lauren and our baby girl," he said and since I can put two and two together I know what he meant.

"So I have to get a new manager, is that it?" I asked even though I knew his answer. He nodded, making me sigh. I don't want anyone else.

"Are you mad?" he asked after a while.

"How could I be mad? You're going to be a father and I understand that you want to be there with Lauren and your baby but I don't want someone else to be my manager."

"A little bird told me someone who would be thrilled to be your new manager," Andre grinned, making me furrow my eyebrows in confusion.

"Who?" I asked as we exited the car and made our way upstairs to Landre's apartment.

"Evan Rose, are there ringing some bells in your tiny brain?" Andre laughed as he knocked on my head like he would at a door. I slapped his hand away and glared at him before saying, "I didn't know he's a manager but he's better than anyone else I know."

"Everything's already taken care off and he'll take over in February because my little girl will be due then and I want to be there at least a week or two before she's due," Andre explained as he unlocked the door and let us in.

I greeted Lauren and we ordered dinner. Later that night Andre drove me home but not before scolding me for not having my license yet.

I already enrolled in a crash curse where I'll be making my license in no time so he can calm his titties down and stop complaining.

When I got home I immediately went to my room and put a movie on before texting Shawn and falling asleep.

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