There was something that sparked in that moment for me of kind of crossing the idea of bringing a ballerina, maybe bringing some other kind of true-blue Broadway stars in line with this project and making it a crossing of worlds in the best possible way. I kind of have this idea that we’re all having these hard days sometimes, and on tour I can feel that. In Broadway days, even when I was doing Cinderella, there wasn’t really time for you to have a hard day where things were going wrong and chaos was ensuing or, you know, you’d just been broken up with or somebody in your life was going through a thing. What I really want to capture in this music video is that there is like a no-good, terrible, horrible bad day going down for a few different women within the production, maybe myself, maybe a ballerina, maybe somebody else involved, and through the support of each other and the behind-the-scenes kind of chaos, that we’re able to pull off the mini miracle of what it is to be in a Broadway situation. And it comes together with a lot of love and a lot of people who get each other and see each other, and that’s sort of the magic that almost the audience doesn’t get to see that I’d love to shine a little bit of light on in this video.

–via Rolling Stone

Carly actually first wrote “Surrender My Heart”, as well as “Western Wind”, in her personal journals, not intending to put them on the album. However, after meeting with her A&R with Interscope Records, and sharing some of her more personal stories, she was persuaded to include them. She elaborates in an interview with Vogue:

It was interesting to watch those more intimate songs be embraced by people who I thought just wanted me to make something adjacent to “Call Me Maybe” again. I thought, rather than question it, I should just try not to get in my own way.