Celebrity haircuts aren’t usually breaking news, but then again, most celebrities aren’t Shawn Mendes.

Since her days of uploading pop covers to YouTube and Vine in the 2010s, she has become a worldwide sensation, with four songs no. 1 place on the Billboard 200 list, three Grammy nominations and 71 million followers on Instagram. So when the musician debuted a very short hairstyle in January, his fans wondered: What happened to his loose locks? And because?