It was written by Meyer-Landrut, Linda "Miss Li" Carlsson and Sonny Boy Gustafsson for her third studio album Stardust (2012), while production was helmed by the latter.

"Mr. Arrow Key" was written by Meyer-Landrut in collaboration with Swedish singer-songwriter Miss Li and producer Sonny Boy Gustafsson.

In an interview with Universal, Lena talked about this song: "In recent years, I have sometimes wished me someone who relieves me of tricky decisions.

Birgit Fuss from Rolling Stone described the song as "irresistible catchy" and compared Meyer-Landrut's vocals with singer Amy Macdonald.

[7] Kevin Holtmann from Plattentests.de declared "Mr. Arrow Key" a well-crafted "meaningless nonsense sixties with polkadots sauce.

By the end of the chorus, the original tempo is actually good, but not quite follow, and then the trained habits of overseas accent in many places sounds put something.