Shawn Mendes Talks Multiple Meanings Behind New Song 'What the Hell Are We Dying For?' & Releasing It So Quick

On the process of releasing the song right after recording it: And it was crazy, dude. It was really just an insane 24 hours I’ve never… I’ve been struggling to be in the studio for longer than four hours, but to be in there for 25 straight to write, produce, have the mixer on a live stream, mixing the song live. I think we had something like three minutes to hand the song in and we were mixing the final outro vocal with two minutes left. It was out of control. Getting in the booth and just singing like that, I don’t think I’ve been to a place like that since I was 18. There’s just this feeling that came back and my body, this adrenaline, this electricity, this excitement, this love for it that I hadn’t felt in so long. And I was up at 05:00 AM cutting that vocal. It was fun.It was so fun.