The first track to be released from Wonderful Wonderful, this was premiered on Annie Mac's BBC Radio 1 show on June 14, 2017. It was The Killers' first new music since 2012's Battle Born (apart from their annual Christmas offerings). Frontman Brandon Flowers told Annie it was a "relief" to put the track out after five years away. He added: "It's funkier than anything we've ever done before but with quintessentially Killers things."
Recorded with the producer Jacknife Lee during album sessions in Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the song finds Killers frontman Brandon Flowers looking back on his younger self, the "Brandon Flowers" persona from the band's Hot Fuss era, and reconciling that wide-eyed character with the man he is now.
Drummer Ronnie Vannucci Jr explained to Canadian radio station CFOX-FM that the song's lyrics were "largely about how when we were younger we felt invincible. What it meant to be a 'man' in your 20s. Sort of your chest out, the breadwinner, nothing could stop you, invincible sort of thing." "It's sort of tongue-and-cheeking that, how that is not really the point of being a man at all," he added. "It's actually more about compassion and empathy."
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