At the end of eight-years of stuff that had kind of built up – I looked at [guitarist] Mark [Vollunga], and I was like, 'Let’s get in the studio now!

[6] In July, the song was also played for television commercials for the film War for the Planet of the Apes.

[3][10] Billboard interpreted the song to be about how people "aim to score points instead of resolve conflicts".

[11] Musically, the song has been described as "percussion-heavy"[11] with a "Depeche Mode-esque beat"[12] and "hammered down guitar licks.

[2] Loudwire described Hawkin's vocals as possessing a quite-loud dynamic, alternating from a "restrained vulnerable" and a "primal catharsis" sound that captured the early stages of a "relationship gone wrong".

[1] It did not win the award, but was still named Loudwire's staff pick for best hard rock song of 2017.

[2] The song also fared well with Loudwire's readers/listener's with the website's "Cage Match" voting polls, with it being put into its "Hall of Fame" due to winning the vote five times in a row, including winning over The Foo Fighters "Run", Highly Suspect's "Little One", Greta Van Fleet's "Highway Tune", Prophets of Rage's "Living on the 110", and Skillet's "The Resistance".