Disclosure and Lorde first collaborated on a mash-up of " Royals " ( 2013 ) and " White Noise " ( 2013 ) at the 2014 Brit Awards . The duo received a call from Lorde in London who wanted to get in the studio shortly after they finished the record . They stated that the singer showed up without management or bodyguards by her side which they called the " most equal collaboration on the record . " Her sound was described as " sassy yet vulnerable " . A year later , Lorde posted a picture on Instagram in 10 June 2015 with Disclosure getting milkshakes . The duo wanted to keep the collaboration a secret since they wanted it to be a surprise . The singer later tweeted a line from the song 's pre-chorus 31 July 2015 . During the recording process , Howard Lawrence stated to '' Entertainment Weekly '' that he asks his collaborators , " Has anything interesting happened to you ? " to gather ideas for a song . Howard then said he had an idea about using the phrase " the point of no return " which was originally going to be the name of the song . He commented on the ambiguity of the phrase , noting that it could be used in flying , boating , etc . Lorde came up with the idea of using the phrase in the sense of an individual being attracted to a person they should not be for " moral reasons " and once that individual tells them , they have " gone past the point of no return " . Guy Lawrence later described it as someone going so far they can not get home with the amount of fuel that they have
2014 Brit Awards
2014 Brit Awards
Magnets (song)