[1] In an interview with Billboard's Jason Lipshutz, Hitch stated on the making of the EP, "We locked ourselves in the studio for a week and just made music constantly.

It turned out to be this whole EP, and there's no way we couldn't call it Happy Neon".

[2] Jason Lipshutz of Billboard claimed: "[Happy Neon] combines sleek, arena–ready pop production with intimate lyrics that capture the 26–year–old at a pivotal moment in her young career.

'Pink Fields', for instance, concludes a wrenching vocal performance with an infectious refrain, while 'Jailhouse' finds Hitch pleading to 'Please set me free!'

as stuttering percussion creates the walls of her conceptual prison.