I Like Me Better - Ryan Riback Remix

This was the first charting song recorded by Ari Staprans Leff who performs under the stage name of Lauv. Leff's performing moniker is Latvian for "lion" and he adopted it as a nod to his mother's heritage and the fact that Ari means "lion"' in Hebrew. In addition, his own zodiac sign is Leo.

This song was inspired by a relationship that Leff started two months after he had first moved from San Francisco to the music technology program at New York University's Steinhardt school. He told iHeartRadio: "It just that feeling of [when] I was a freshman in college and didn't really know who I was or who I wanted to be. But I knew that with this person, I just liked myself better."

Written and produced in his bedroom, this was the fastest song that Leff had ever penned to date. He added with a laugh to Billboard that it was also "the first really happy song I've written for myself in God knows how long."