It was produced by Dann Hume,[1] and released on 22 June 2023 as a single after previews on TikTok, including a video parody of the "Pocketful of Sunshine" scene from the film Easy A.

Shark described the song "[it] is about that moment in the beginning stages of meeting someone when your mind runs away from you and you let the butterflies in your stomach take over.

[10] The Mitch Green-directed music video was filmed in Sydney on a Google Pixel 7 Pro phone and stars Shark with Lucinda Price and Harry Holland.

[5][6] Mary Varvaris from The Music called it a "pop song that’s destined to get in listeners' heads with a hooky pre-chorus and chorus and somehow fits a bridge into its short runtime.

"[11] Rolling Stone Australia's Poppy Reid declared it is "a welcome injection of turbo-pop" saying, "the single hits different when compared to [Shark]'s musical canon.