In an online interview with Billboard, Ezra said:
It was a wonderful thing: I’ve been writing songs since I was a teenager, so one kind of song I’ve written a lot is about, I don’t know, teen angst feelings – feeling unsure of yourself and immature. And some of those songs, a lot of times I’m like, “Well, it’s too adolescent, I don’t know if it fits my album.” Like our last album, I was trying to be very adult, very serious, so there were some songs that got cut that I really liked where I was like, “They’re too teenaged.” So this was the perfect place for some teenage feelings.