It was originally intended to serve as the lead single of his sixth studio album Hurry Up Tomorrow (2025), however, it was later omitted from the tracklist.

[4] The synth-pop track[2] was met with positive reviews from music critics and debuted at number 14 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

The Weeknd first performed the song live on September 7, 2024, at his one-night-only concert in Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil.

Alexis Petridis from The Guardian gave the song four out of five stars, commenting the singer "revisits his usual theme of nihilistic love and his beloved palette of 80s synths, but it's melodically solid and there are some tweaks to the formula".

[11] Alexa Camp of Slant Magazine wrote that the song "marks a turn back toward a lighter pop sound", in which "the singer once again associating romantic longing with the risk of physical danger".