On a Nylon interview, Marina comments on the concept of vulnerability, which is connected to the track. The interviewer asks her if she sees vulnerability as something that the world is missing.

“Always, I suppose. Particularly with men, because they’ve been brought up to (or socialized to) believe that expressing emotion is female or feminine, even though I think we all possess feminine and masculine traits. When I was writing that I was specifically thinking about men, but it’s also for all human beings. I think when we have negative or difficult emotions, we think that’s wrong: “We should be happy all the time therefore I’m going to use psychological tactics to not address those feelings.” I don’t know why humans do this, but we do. And that song is definitely about accentuating the fact that we are emotional beings by design and that we’re meant to feel all emotions, the full spectrum, in order to grow. ”

Marina later commented on the reason she wrote the song,

There wasn’t any major event, I think I struggle with how high and low my own moods go and that’s always been a part of me. But I was also thinking about it in terms of a relationship that I had at the time, and how difficult it is sometimes for men to be able to connect with other people in that way. I think it’s something that we should be encouraging them to feel safe to change. It just doesn’t seem fair that men are kind of punished for being emotional in a way. – Marina, via Nylon.