"Nervous Young Inhumans" was the final track written and recorded for Twin Fantasy,[2] with Toledo originally sharing the song on Tumblr in October 2011.

[4] The spoken word outro would be completely re-written for the re-recording, with added references to the "painstar" (a fictional concept from the webcomic Lamezine 001 by Cate Wurtz),[5] Murray Wilson, and a series of nightmares Toledo had after watching the 2017 film, The Evil Within.

In a self-published interview with Peyton Thomas, Toledo would describe the updated outro as "much more stream-of-consciousness", comparing it, and the associated jam, to Neil Young's album Hitchhiker.

[7][10] In a review for the 2018 re-recording, Sasha Geffen of Pitchfork expressed some criticisms for the original version, describing the spoken word outro as "deadpanned over a blasé bass line".

They would ultimately describe the track as "the shyest glam possible, a tortured internal monologue screamed beneath a broken disco ball [...] remembering what it felt like to want to dance with someone long after the party's over".