Songfacts®:

• Breland first came on to Keith Urban's radar when radio stations started playing his "My Truck" single. Later, the Australian-American country star read an interview with Breland in which the New Jersey-born artist's explanation of his creative process attracted his interest. Urban decided to cold-call Breland and invite him to his Nashville area home.
  
  When Breland arrived, Urban asked him to share what he'd been working on, and the young singer played him a bunch of demos, including an early version of the chorus for "Throw It Back." To his surprise, Urban offered to help him turn it into a song.
  
  "I'm like, 'You know, this song is kind of... it's a little suggestive,'" Breland recalled to The Boot. "It's a little sensual, at least... There's some allusions to twerking in this song,'"
  
  This did not put off Urban, who Breland says is happy to work on any type of music that catches his ear.
• When they moved into Urban's studio, the pair wrote three songs together: this tune and The Speed of Now Part 1 tracks "Out The Cage" and "Soul Food."
• The song finds Breland and Urban using different meanings of the titular phrase to describe a girl who has caught their attention.
  
  She drinks a shot of Jack Daniel's in one swallow:
  
  If she get a shot of whiskey she know how to throw it back
  
  The girl likes to listen to old-school rock 'n' roll:
  
  She'd turn up for Elvis Presley told the DJ "Throw it back"
  
  The girl likes to twerk:
  
  Throw it, throw it back
  Drop it low you can blame it on the Jack
  
  Twerking is a dance where women throw their hips back or shake their butt, often in a low squatting stance.
• Breland released the song on June 4, 2021 as the follow up to his single "Cross Country."