This ode to weakness was the second Hot 100 hit for the sibling trio of Adam, Jack and Ryan Met, following 2014's "I'm Ready."
The song finds the AJR trio admitting to the feeble ease in which they succumb to temptation: One sip, bad for me One hit, bad for me One kiss, bad for me But I give in so easily And no thank you is how it should've gone I should stay strong. Asked by Billboard magazine why AJR decided to write about such an unconventional subject, Ryan Met replied: "A lot of the songs on the radio now are about staying strong and staying confident. We were listening to that and we were like, 'That's good to inspire people, but sometimes that can get to be a little bit of an unrealistic expectation to set for all of society to be constantly confident and strong.' And we thought, how cool would it be for everybody to shout together that they're weak?' We were trying to push the idea of a party anthem forward a little bit. Everybody's kind of sick of LMFAO-type party anthems, everyone's moving past that because it's a little dated. So we were thinking what's kind of the next evolution of the party anthem. It's a little bit more insightful than a normal party song, it's a little bit deeper and more emotional."
The song was one of the easier ones on The Click album to write. Ryan Met explained: "It took a day. We knew we needed a pre-chorus that ended with 'I should stay strong' and then the chorus that goes, 'But I'm weak' with a huge drop where the punch line comes across to everybody. And as soon as we knew that that was the point of the song, everything else came pretty easy."
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