Conan Gray wants to kiss Shawn Mendes and yes us too. (Getty)
Indie pop star and “Heather” singer Conan Gray has joked that he hopes to kiss Shawn Mendes this year, and we can appreciate the vision.
Yesterday (3 July) Gray shared a screen recording of his notes app, which featured his “2025 Kiss Count”.
On the list was My Life with the Walter Boys star Corey Fogelmanis, who Gray kissed in his recent “This Song” music video, which told the sweet story of a blossoming gay romance.
Conan Gray and Corey Fogelmanis star in the “This Song” music video. (YouTube)
The second and final name on the list was Tucker Pillsbury, aka American singer-songwriter Role Model, whom Gray kissed on stage during Role Model’s set at last month’s Governors Ball in New York.
As per Role Model’s tradition, he brought out Gray as his special guest to dance with during his song “Sally When the Wine Runs Out”. Yet he added extra spice to the song by going in for a smooch with Gray.
Underneath his kiss count, Gray added a “To Do” section, and began typing out the name of his friend, fellow singer-songwriter and “There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back” hitmaker Shawn Mendes.
He then swiftly deleted Mendes’ name, replacing it with “360” singer Charli XCX, whom Gray recently supported during her Brat show at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark by performing the viral dance to her song, “Apple”.
It’s become XCX’s tradition to bring out a star to perform the “Apple” dance during her shows, with Gracie Abrams, Chappell Roan and Amelia Dimoldenberg have previously been on “Apple” duty.
Role Model reacted to Conan Gray being both the “Apple” and “Sally” dancers on his own Instagram Stories, jokingly adding Charli XCX to his “Enemies List” on his notes app.
It’s not the first time Gray has shouted out Mendes, either: during an appearance on Capital Buzz in 2019, Gray reacted to his fans saying that the pair look similar.
Asked if he had any advice for Mendes at the time, Gray quipped: “Maybe try getting someone else’s face because apparently you look like me, even though we aren’t even the same race.”
Last month, Gray was lauded by his LGBTQ+ fans for depicting a burgeoning gay romance in the “This Song” music video, with one writing: “An mlm [men loving men] music video from Conan Gray is enough to kill a boy like me. This truly means the world to me.”
Gray’s apparent crush Mendes was lathered with praise from his fans last year after opening up about his own sexuality on his song, “The Mountain”.
Last October, Mendes addressed the fact rumours about his sexuality had existed for “so long”.
Shawn Mendes addresses gay rumours on new song ‘The Mountain’. (Getty)
He said the rumours were “kind of silly because sexuality is such a beautifully complex thing, and it’s so hard to just put into boxes”.
He continued: “It always felt like such an intrusion on something very personal to me, something I was figuring out in myself, something I had yet to discover and still have yet to discover it. The truth about my life and my sexuality is I’m just figuring it out like everyone and it feels really scary because we live in a society that has a lot to say about that.
“I’m trying to be brave and allow myself to be a human and feel things. That’s all I really want to say for now.”
Conan Gray’s new album Wishbone will be released on 15 August.
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