The song contains elements of hip hop, house, electropop, and dance music and contains use of Auto-Tune on some of the vocals.

[2] The first few scenes were shot with a silver Mercedes-Benz 300SL, with appearance by all artists.

[2] Ironically, the music video contains cars that actually don't feature back seats as well as a Mustang in place of the Camaro that is not orange.

Also in the video, car miniatures were used to create an illusion of it being full-scale models.

"Backseat" debuted at #37 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has peaked at #26 in its twelfth week,[4] becoming the duo's third top forty hit in the United States.