Jonas Blue and Hrvy come from a long friendship. The duo, who has previously worked on the successes of Jonas Blue, like "
Mama", "
Rise" and "
Polaroid", has composed "Younger" together with
Sam Roman, one of the UK's most important composers, author of British success in 2019 for
Lewis Capaldi, "
Someone You Loved". It was during an interview for
EDM Identity after
Lollapalooza festival in August 2019, that Jonas Blue revealed his future collaboration with the young singer. Responding to the journalist who wanted to know if he was planning future collaborations, he said, "There's a guy named Hrvy from the UK that I'd like to get something going with soon. Great voice, very R&B with a British twangy voice." He also alluded to this song during an interview for
EDMTunes on 16 August 2019 by revealing that "another classic Jonas Blue is coming out early September". Hrvy unveiled the genesis of the song in an interview for
DNA India Magazine on 16 September. He said, "[Jonas Blue] was in the studio a couple of months ago, writing "Younger". He had me in mind and then he texted me if I wanted to do it. I wasn't going to say no, so I jumped at it. I went to record it, and we did a video in
Los Angeles, USA." Blue confessed to
Hits Radio in November 2019 that since he saw the singer performing his songs, he wanted to collaborate with him. "And when I wrote 'Younger' it felt like the right song", he added, concluding this topic in the interview. == Critical reception ==