Released 24 May 2023 on Polydor Records, the song is about wanting to be treated nicely in a relationship and received positive critical reception.

[2] A couple of weeks later, one of the band's photographers retweeted one of their photo shoots, prompting her to find his Instagram account and ask him out.

[4] A week after that, they split up and did not talk to each other for several months;[5]: 44:25  after releasing "Updown" in February 2023,[6] the pair reunited as friends in April 2023.

[12] Notion complimented the song's "acoustic-infused liquid DnB beat",[10] while Dan Cairns of The Times wrote that the track was "at once as light as air and as insistent as a final demand".

[15] A more critical review, however, came from Stephanie van Tol of Dancing Bears, who opined that little happened on the record and that it felt "much longer" than its sub-three minute playing time.