Shawn Mendes Was ‘On The Back End Of Feeling A Lot Of Things’ When He Wrote His New Song ‘What The Hell Are We Dying For?’

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Shawn Mendes is opening up about how uncertainty in his life fuelled the release of his new song, “What The Hell Are We Dying For?” “I think I am approaching 25 still feeling quite confused about a lot of things in my life.

And I think [the song] was expressing that feeling of frustration about what is happening, this feeling of swinging the pendulum back and forth,” Mendes told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 about the powerful track released amid the Canadian wildfires. “I think I still am in a very confused place, but I know that there are some people in my life who I deeply love, and I know that music is something I deeply love, and I know that this planet is something I deeply love,” he continued. “And all of those three things are something worth fighting for and worth dying for.” READ MORE: Fans Spot Shawn Mendes Hanging Out At Do West Fest In Toronto While diving deeper into the struggles he’s been dealing with musically, Mendes revealed that “over the last year and a bit,” he’s “been really struggling in the studio to find my voice… and to even have the courage to be in the room with writers or step into the booth and sing.” He noted that he was in upstate New York when he wrote the song, “and just on the back end of feeling a lot of things about relationships, about my career, about environment. “And I was in the studio and this moment of just deep frustration came over me and I finally started to feel this inspiration come… it felt like it was the first time I felt that in a year and a half… and the words came out of me just like, ‘what am I dying for?'” he recalled. READ MORE: Shawn Mendes And Camila Cabello Enjoy Date Night At Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour After Spending The Week Together In New York City