 Carlton says that the concept of the album is "about personal evolution and finding joy through hardships.Every song is like a different chapter in a book".According to her, the lyrics are "far better written" and build on her greater life experience, which she says produces "a more interesting perspective through song" and lyrics more adults can listen to than previously, when she was writing from the point of view of a seventeen-year-old girl rather than "more of a fully formed person".