 After performing in the Broadway musical "After Midnight," Fantasia began working on her fifth studio album with producer Harmony Samuels.She had previously collaborated with Samuels for her fourth album "Side Effects of You" (2013); she referred to him as her "Quincy Jones" since she would work "from scratch with him going to the keyboard and just playing things".For the album, Fantasia wanted to combine her soulful childhood singing in church with "a certain side of [her] that wants to tap into that whole rock world".