This song was inspired by Benee's fascination with snails while under coronavirus-imposed quarantine in her native New Zealand. She wrote and recorded the feel-good pop number with her regular producer Josh Fountain shortly after her country opened up from lockdown.
Benee initially wrote the upbeat song about her being a snail, but then she and Fountain decided they needed to make it relatable, so instead she just compares herself to a snail.
Garden snails are nocturnal animals and move to food and partners in the late evening or at night. They hibernate during the winter and live on their stored fat. I'm like a snail, you're a guy Kinda mad I can't fly When it's day, hide away But come out when it rains Benee explained that there wasn't much she could do during her weeks in COVID-19 isolation, "So I would spend a lot of time outside looking at snails and would think about how they're doing their own little thing and they're all free. I just played around with the idea of being kind of like a snail and how I come out in the rain. Being stuck inside because of COVID, it's kind of my lockdown song."
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