Canadian singer-songwriter Alessia Cara began playing guitar at the age of 10 and started her own YouTube channel three years later. Her acoustic selection of covers, which ranged from Beyoncé to Gnarls Barkley, grabbed the attention of Def Jam, and she signed with EP Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings in 2015. This is the lead single from Cara's debut EP, Four Pink Walls.
Produced by Pop & Oak and Sebastian Kole, the song is about a real-life experience of Cara, when she realized how much she hated going to parties. A gathering she attended in 2013 sparked the song. "It was a packed party in a basement," she explained to NME. "Everyone seemed to know each other, but not me. It was sweaty, there was a guy and girl passed out with vomit all over her, people were just stepping over them. I called my mom and got her to pick me up."
This borrows from Isaac Hayes' "Ike's Rap II," a track from the American singer's 1971 double-album, Black Moses. The sample was previously used by Portishead for their 1994 classic trip-hop single "Glory Box." "There was something missing in the low end of the song," Cara told NME. "So Pop & Oak took a piece of the Isaac Hayes track and looped it."
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