During a Q&A following a screening of Boy Erased, Troye shared that after he read the script, he was adamant on getting his music in the film as well.

I was ready to sell my soul. I said, ‘You can have any song that I’ve ever written, I’ll write new ones, I’ll do anything.’

As this song is inspired by a scene in the film in where the protagonist has a pure interaction with another boy for the first time, Troye elaborates:

God doesn’t strike him down and the world doesn’t fall apart. And maybe he even kind of enjoys it, and maybe it feels right for the first time. The idea of that person being a revelation in your life, where you can kind of do something that feels so natural and so right and be fine on the other side, that was a really potent thing in my head.