degraw defined the album as "more refined yet edgier sound". he revealed to "the examiner" that "for this album in particular what happened was there were things that i did musically that i recorded that i hadn’t recorded before. continuing he explained, "some of the types of singing that i’m doing on this album, i’ve done it live but i’ve never actually recorded it this way." degraw also described the album as "just funkier and more sexy than the albums i’ve made in the past. not that every song is about bumping and grinding cause that’s not at all the record i’m saying i made. it’s just a sexier more intimate type of album.”