Camila Cabello hints at split from Shawn Mendes during performance at the 2024 VMAs

Camila Cabello gave a haunting performance at the 2024 MTV Video Music Awards that was apparently directed at her ex-boyfriend Shawn Mendeswho was present.

The 27-year-old singer took the stage at New York’s UBS Arena on Wednesday, September 11, to perform one of her 2024 hits – but not “June Gloom,” as fans had predicted.

Cabello began the performance by watching a video of herself with blonde hair singing the first verse of “June Gloom” before revealing her new brunette locks onstage. She then launched into a touching rendition of “Godspeed” from a recording booth while masked dancers with baseball bats attempted to break in. Both songs are apparently about her on-off relationship with Mendes, 26.

She slammed the laptop on the floor before singing the final verse: “I’m letting you go and feeling more like myself / I wish you well but far away from me / Good luck.”

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At the beginning of the show, Mendes sang “Nobody Knows,” which is also rumored to be about Cabello. Sabrina Carpenterwho reportedly had a romance with Mendes during a hiatus from Cabello in 2023, also took the stage on Wednesday with a mashup of “Taste” and “Espresso.”

Cabello, for her part, previously hinted that “June Gloom” took its title from a “weather phenomenon” that “occurs in certain parts of the world.” She said nylon In June, the term describes foggy days when it feels “like being in a cloud”.

“One time I had the always brilliant idea to get back in touch with my ex,” she said of the song’s plot. “And we decided to take a harmless walk on this beach with a bottle of alcohol.”

The track begins with Cabello singing, “June gloom, tule fog / I might as well say, ‘Meet you in Montauk’ / Cold beach, you leave / I feel my body scream when you talk.”

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She then opens up about another affair, hinting that the ex she mentions was dating someone new before they got back together on the East Coast. “She’s cool, I heard / Won’t act like she’s surprised, I seen the pictures / We’re definitely a house fire / Hope it burns out, but it’s only getting bigger,” sings Cabello.

In the pre-chorus, Cabello asks, “If she’s so great / Why are you on this side of town? / If you like her so much / What are you trying to figure out here?”

The song, which comes from Cabello’s fourth studio album, C, XOXO, raised eyebrows among fans as it seems to follow the timeline of Cabello and Mendes’ relationship. It also hints at Mendes’ alleged romance with Carpenter.

Cabello and Mendes originally dated from 2019 to 2021. Mendes was then linked to Carpenter, 25, in early 2023 after they were spotted having dinner in Los Angeles in February of that year. Carpenter and Mendes were also seen attending a release party for Miley Cyrus‘ Endless summer holidays together in March 2023.

However, Mendes claimed that same month that he and Carpenter were “not together.” In April 2023, Mendes and Cabello were spotted kissing at the Coachella festival.

The couple’s reconciliation was short-lived. We weekly confirmed in June 2023 that Mendes and Cabello had split, with a source claiming, “Camila was the one who ultimately decided to end things.”

Their breakup in the summer of 2023 fits the story Cabello sings about in “June Gloom,” although she did not reveal the identity of the ex-boyfriend mentioned in the song.

Carpenter seemed to confirm her affair with Mendes in several songs on her latest album. Short and sweetListeners have theorized that “Coincidence” in particular is about Mendes, as the song is about a guy who gets back together with his ex shortly after breaking up with the song’s leading lady.

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“The second I laid my head on your chest / She knew she had a real sixth sense,” Carpenter sings in the first verse. “Now her name pops up once, then it pops up twice / And without her even being here, she’s back in your life / Now she’s in the same damn town on the same damn night.”

Carpenter fueled romance rumors even further with her opening track “Taste” and the accompanying music video, in which she starred Jenna Ortega than the other woman. (Cabello is currently blonde, but she was brunette when she was with Mendes.)

“I heard you guys are back together, and if that’s true / Then you’ve got to taste me when he kisses you. / If you want eternity, I bet you do. / Just know that you’ll taste me, too,” Carpenter jokes.