Written by the pair, alongside Andrew Watt, Benny Blanco, Ali Tamposa, Charli XCX, Jack Patterson and Cashmere Cat, ‘Senorita’ is a spicy tale of seduction and provocative encounters, with a sizzling video that brings to vivid life the whirlwind romance of star-crossed lovers in the Miami heat, and sees the two really raising the temperature as they embrace.

“It took a bit for it to come to fruition where we were both like, ‘Okay, let’s do it.’”Īrriving almost four years after the then-teenage pair first partnered on ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’, the lead single from the 2015 re-release of Mendes’ debut album ‘Handwritten’ that saw Cabello moonlighting from her day job in Fifth Harmony (the girl group she’d quit in 2016), ‘Senorita’ may likely come as little surprise to those whose tongues were set wagging after the duo were spotted lunching together in LA last month. “He had first sent me the idea for it nine months ago, and we just kinda kept going back and forth between like, ‘We’re doing it!’ and then one of us being like, ‘Okay, I don’t wanna do it,’ and then other one being like, ‘No, I wanna do it now,’ and the other person was like, ‘Oh, I don’t wanna do it anymore…’” she laughs. “The song was actually in the works for a really long time,” Camila admits over a transatlantic call to Clash HQ.

The release today of ‘Senorita’, the new collaboration between Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello - a union affectionately known as Shawnmila to their respective followers - arrives three days after the Canadian heartthrob first sent the Internet into meltdown by posting a steamy teaser of the video on his socials, but, as his duettist attests, the world could have been waiting even longer for this to materialize.

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