“think later” was also written the week before we turned in the album. We just wanted to make a super hard bass-heavy song with the ballsiest lyrics we could think of. I remember someone asking me, ‘What’s the most “think later” thing you’ve ever done?’ And I was like, ‘Well, when I met my ex-boyfriend.’ It was this really crazy story of me acting like a complete menace for a night, which is so hilarious because I’m a pretty shy Canadian, very goody-two-shoes, the majority of the time. For this one night, I remember shutting off my phone and just completely trying to get lost in the moment. It ended up being the most chaotic night of my life where everyone was stressed as to where I was. We basically told the story in the song and broke down this really chaotic night in my life. It was very much necessary for the album because it’s just an absolute perfect example of how this whole storm started.

– via Apple Music

We were in the, probably at the end of the writing process of the album and Tedder, who I worked with, who executive produced the album was like ‘do we have an album track yet?’ and I was like ‘no’. So then we were like ‘what’s the most, like, think later thing that has happened in the past, like, year of my life?’ and I was like ‘well, i have this one insane story’ and so then I literally just started, like, the entire song basically just paints out, like, step by step every single thing that went down on this one, like, really chaotic night of my life. I feel like it perfectly captures the overall feeling of the album.

–Tate McRae, Amazon Music Artist Stories