The song is the second track and the first single from Simon Townshend's debut solo album, Sweet Sound.

There were two singles lifted from the album, "So Real" and "I'm the Answer", but neither got much album-oriented rock radio play.

[citation needed] "I'm the Answer" was the only song to feature a music video, which was played on MTV.

MTV mistakenly credited "Peter Townshend" as the artist for the song.

Simon Townshend re-recorded the song for the 1999 album Animal Soup.