Everyone Asked About You formed in 1996 in Little Rock, Arkansas,[1] and after releasing a handful of singles and recording an album in 1998 that went unreleased,[2][3] they split up in 2000.

[7][8] The song is in the band's "sweet spot" sound, with dual indie pop vocals from singer Hannah Vogan and singer/guitarist Chris Sheppard over emo music.

[5][11] With the announcement, Sheppard shared a video of him playing "A Vigil" on an acoustic guitar, and posted a statement about the need for LGBT pride in which he said the song was "about the basic truth–we're not going anywhere.

I wrote it in a flurry of a couple hours after learning of the death of Nex Benedict and I was thrust back into memories from my teenage years of Brandon Teena, Matthew Shepard, and countless other stories of attacks on queer people.

[7] The band performed at Best Friends Forever, an emo-centric music festival held at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, on October 11.