The song's musical-style and production were heavily inspired by rock and pop music from the 1980s, and its lyrics chronicle a relationship.

The music video for "I Thought I'd Seen Everything" was directed by Andrew MacNaughtan and Bryan Adams.

[2] [3] The video features Adams and his band performing the song live in a studio, similar to the style of "Please Forgive Me", released in 1993.

In an interview with Dominick A. Miserandino from The Celebrity Cafe Adams talked about how if felt to direct the music video: It's a lot more work.

But a lot of people can see me for what I am - what's real - rather than something that's an imaginary, trumped up idea of what the song should be.