“Electric Touch” sees Swift and Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy long for hope, vulnerability, and the uncertainty of new love while they also share their perspectives on the potential risks and rewards of opening themselves up to new romantic possibilities.

Swift announced that “Electric Touch” would serve as the first vault track on her re-recorded edition of Speak Now. She further revealed that Fall Out Boy with whom she had performed at the 2013 Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show, would be featured on the song. Notably, Patrick Stump–the lead singer of Fall Out Boy–had also made a special guest appearance during Taylor Swift’s Red Tour.

The decision to feature Fall Out Boy on the track was explained by Swift in a post announcing the album’s rerecording:

Since Speak Now was all about my songwriting, I decided to go to the artists who I feel influenced me most powerfully as a lyricist at that time and ask them to sing on the album.

Swift has often mentioned the influence Fall Out Boy have had on her songwriting over the years, revealing to Zane Lowe that Pete Wentz and previous collaborator Lana Del Rey are her favorite lyricists and telling Rolling Stone in 2019:

I love Fall Out Boy so much. Their songwriting really influenced me, lyrically, maybe more than anyone else. They take a phrase and they twist it. “Loaded God complex/Cock it and pull it”? When I heard that, I was like, “I’m dreaming.”