Shawn Mendes launched his new single “What the Hell Are We Dying For?” inside 24 hours of creating it, and the pop star sat down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 to debate the inspiration behind the heartbroken monitor.
“I really feel like during the last 12 months and a bit, I’ve simply been actually struggling within the studio to seek out my voice and to seek out myself musically and to even have the braveness simply to be within the room with writers or step into the sales space and sing,” he defined. “I used to be upstate New York and simply on the again finish of feeling lots of issues about relationships, about my profession, in regards to the surroundings. I used to be within the studio and this second of simply deep frustration came to visit me and I lastly began to really feel this inspiration come. Truthfully, in that second, it felt prefer it was the primary time I felt that in a 12 months and a half within the studio.”
He continued, “I feel I had this sense of urgency, this sense of actually pleasure, this sense of connection — this sense of that is me proper now, that is how I really feel proper now. […] I feel we have been up there in New York, the sky was orange, the air was thick and the phrases have been flowing and this occurred. In hindsight, it was scary. I awakened within the morning and I used to be like, “Wow, what did I do?” I feel it was factor for me to do for myself. I needed to dive into the deep finish. In any other case, I might’ve sat there for years questioning myself… and I feel it wraps round to simply, what’s it that we care about in life? Who can we care about? What’s price it? Why can we present up the way in which we do?”
Because the track got here on the heels of smoke within the New York skyline because of Canadian wildfires, Mendes revealed upon the track’s launch that he’s donating to the Canadian Pink Cross to supply aid to these impacted.
The track marks his return to music after Mendes postponed, then cancelled a deliberate 2022 North American/European tour to give attention to his psychological well being. “If I’m being utterly trustworthy, I really feel a bit of confused about the whole lot nonetheless,” Mendes defined of his present mindset. “I feel a bit of bit, simply all over. I really feel conscious of how persons are receiving the track. I really feel conscious of the truth that I did it on a whim and I’m happy with it. However most of all, actually, if I’m being actual, I’m simply completely happy that I broke by that horrible wall of author’s block and I’m creating once more. I’m simply completely happy about that. And I’m simply going to maintain going, maintain making some songs as a result of I actually assume that there’s one thing in right here.
Take heed to the total interview right here.
