Much of the album deals with lockdown-enforced reflections on things the Paramore singer had left boxed up and needed to come out, and it was an appropriately introspective work.
“For me, there’s no better way to tackle these individual subjects other than holistically,” she explained at the time. “The ways I’ve been given time (forcibly, really) to stew on certain pains long enough to understand that they in fact, need to be released… indefinitely. I may never have been offered such a kindness; an opportunity to tend to the seeds I’d planted, to harvest, and to weed or prune what is no longer alive, in order to make space for the living."