Shawn Mendes — Lyric Analysis
LyricScope analyzed the lyrics of 60 songs across 5 albums by Shawn Mendes. They use 1,094 unique words out of 6,092 (lexical richness MATTR 0.61), with an average of 102 content words per song. Emotional tone: 48% of songs positive, 45% neutral, 7% negative.
Most used words by Shawn Mendes
- know (172)
- love (100)
- baby (94)
- say (83)
- air (82)
- one (63)
- let (62)
- little (62)
- time (58)
- feel (56)
- want (56)
- right (53)
- need (49)
- mind (48)
- take (46)
- please (45)
- way (45)
- heart (44)
- think (42)
- teach (40)
Signature phrases
- “perfectly wrong” (17)
- “strings attached” (15)
- “rollin right along” (14)
- “little bit” (13)
- “babe stop feel” (12)
- “stop feel rush” (12)
- “nobody knows” (11)
- “little excited” (11)
- “say love” (11)
- “something big” (11)
Colors in the lyrics
- gold (9)
- black (2)
- white (2)
- red (2)
- purple (1)
- yellow (1)
- blue (1)
Albums analyzed
- Handwritten (2015)
- Illuminate (2016)
- Shawn Mendes (2018)
- Wonder (2020)
- Shawn (2024)