[2] "World's Smallest Violin" was initially planned as the album's second single with a release date in June 2020, but was later switched with "Bummerland" as the band felt the latter worked better as "the anthem of [the] summer".

This ambitious bridging of styles could lead to disaster, but the brothers of AJR have mastered the skill, mirroring not only the sound, but also the lyrical content of each genre: In "World's Smallest Violin", for example, they imitate country classics by telling a generational story.

In terms of Broadway influences, many tracks are narrative-driven, and listeners have long noticed melodic similarities to that of theatrical soundtracks.

The band also wanted to try to flawlessly seam a transition from a violin to vocals to a guitar, with a theatrical ending to the song where "everything comes at once", with a continuously speeding up verse.

[10] Just over a year after the song was initially released, "World's Smallest Violin" went viral on social media platform TikTok, leading to a spike in views on the official music video on YouTube and streams on Spotify.