“I was wounded, and it was rough,” she said. “‘Younger Women’ and ‘I’ll Take the Blame,’ which were written and produced fully in isolation, poured out of me. Each song was meant to be its own specific little world with its own tone, with its own mood. I was determined to be fully autonomous, creatively. I still had people come in and help me finish those productions, but this idea that I am capable of doing this on my own translated into the music. I was happy to have it be mine and feel that it was mine.”