Watch Shawn Mendes Cover One Direction’s ‘Drag Me Down’

Shawn Mendes gave his fans a taste of the good old days by releasing a new cover on Wednesday (Aug. 12).

Mendes, a 17-year-old pop star who initially built up his fanbase through Vine videos, covered One Direction‘s latest hit “Drag Me Down.” The black-and-white YouTube video shows Mendes alone with his guitar singing an acoustic version of the pop hit. 

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Shawn Mendes & Hailee Steinfeld Combine for ‘Stitches’ Acoustic Take: Watch

The young Canadian singer recently celebrated his birthday in front of 60,000 screaming fans onstage with Taylor Swift in Seattle. Swift had the crowd sing “Happy Birthday” to him, which apparently rocked his world.

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Mendes has been an opening act on Swift’s 1989 World Tour, but he’ll headline his own show at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday with Andy Grammer and Jacquie Lee. (Stick with Billboard.com for coverage of Sunday’s show.)

Check out his tour dates here.

Coolest birthday ever. Taylor brought me up on stage and had a crowd of 60 thousand people sing happy birthday to me. So lucky to be on tour with someone so incredibly kind. You rock Taylor. Thank you so much!

A photo posted by Shawn Mendes (@shawnmendes) on Aug 8, 2015 at 10:16pm PDT