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with someone and you don’t want to have expectations. But they kind of get in the way, regardless". She wrote it after experiencing something that made her "upset". She went in the studio the following the day and wrote it in about 30 minutes. She also produced the vocals. Jauregui played with double meaning for the single, simultaneously alluding to expectations on her output post-Fifth
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