[Producer] Socialchair made the instrumental for this part. It was a very cheesy ballad vibe, but it was beautiful. We’d been talking about BDSM at the writing camp, so it was on the brain. And we were like, ‘Well, what if this is some really hardcore, nasty kind of stuff, but it’s over this beautiful thing?’ I was like, ‘Okay, I think everyone needs to leave the room for me to try to write these vocals, because it’s actually going to be really personal.’ This is really deeply personal and serious about the intensity of a relationship when you want to give them power over you and your body, and how meaningful that can be. And how you can really lose yourself in it. It is a love song to me. I think traditionally I have been so self-conscious about writing love songs but to me, I feel comfortable because this is so weird and bizarre. I’ve had some people reach out to me where they were like, ‘This song got to me.’ And I’m like, ‘Thank you,’ because there are also a lot of people who are like, ‘This song is f**king weird.’ It was nice to be vulnerable, but in a traditionally vulnerable way.

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