Los Angeles Sep 27 (IANS) Shawn Mendes has teamed up with DJ-producer Zedd to release a new remix for the singer-songwriter s latest single "Lost in Japan".
They teased the remix and artwork throughout the week leading up to the song s release on Thursday via Island Records.
"Lost in Japan" is the second single from Mendes self-titled third album.
Coinciding with the remix Mendes and Zedd released a lyric video.
"When we decided to make Lost in Japan the next single I wanted to do an exciting remix for the song and with Zedd being a good friend and such an amazing artiste it felt natural to ask him to collaborate on it. What he did with it is so incredible " Mendes said in a statement.
Zedd got really excited when Mendes asked him to work on a new version of "Lost in Japan".
"I tried to fuse both of our worlds together and bring us both to a place we wouldn t have gone to by ourselves. It s my favourite song from the album so it was super fun to put my own touch to it " said Zedd.
The original version of the song has so far garnered 200 million global streams.

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