[1][2] The song was written by John Lundvik, Amir Haddad, Tom Leeb and Léa Ivanne.

The song is a multi-lingual French-English power ballad and, as with France's previous internal selections in 2016 and 2017, the verses are in French and the chorus is in English.

After receiving more than one hundred songs written, the TV network convened several listening committees to pick the best entry.

Three of the main selection criteria were universality, emotion and capacity of the song to make the audience "live an experience".

"[4] This echoed similar public criticism received on Sébastien Tellier's song 'Divine', which was selected to represent France in the 2008 contest.