This Khalid-featuring track was written by Shawn Mendes along with his usual collaborators Scott Harris, Geoff Warburton, and Teddy Geiger. In addition to co-penning the song, Shawn also co-produced it with New Zealand producer Joel Little, who also teamed up with Khalid on his "Young, Dumb and Broke" single.
The triumphant song draws inspiration from a pair of terrorist atrocities in the UK: The May 2017 Manchester bombing that killed 22 concertgoers outside of an Ariana Grande show and the London Bridge attack two months previously. Shawn was deeply affected by the tragedies and penned this tune about how he and other young people react to such harrowing events. "It's the most important song on the album," he told Britain's Daily Star newspaper. "I was touring around Europe when the events of Manchester and London happened, it was very overwhelming." "I wanted to write something about it but it had to be about the feeling for us as a generation when one of these things happens," Shawn added. "So I wrote a song about our youth, a feeling that can't be taken away from us."
The song's message is despite the efforts of horrible people, hate won't win. Pain but I won't let it turn into hate I won't let it change me You can't take my youth away Mendes said: "The reality is it's a song that becomes more relevant in the world today."
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