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• Fitz and the Tantrums frontman Michael Fitzpatrick may sing the lead vocal on this deceptively upbeat tune, but it's a gun that's doing the talking. His co-singer, Noelle Scaggs, was disheartened by the lack of gun-control measures after the news of yet another mass shooting made headlines, so she decided to write a song about the psychology behind gun culture in the US - sung from the perspective of a cocky firearm.
  
  "I talked to people who were all about gun control, and then, I talked to people who are about the Second Amendment - and their reasoning behind it," Scaggs told American Songwriter. "I feel they've just been… like it is this [gun] talking to them, and that there's this unconscious conversation they're having with this weapon. The conversation is about the gun ruling its owner."
• In a 2023 Songfacts interview, Scaggs talked about the power music has to spark conversations about important issues, and her frustration with fellow musicians who refuse to take a stand out of fear.
  
  "We've always tried to find an approach to talk about heavy topics without alienating people, still allowing people to feel like they're included in the conversation whether they agree with us or not," she said. "Some of my quarrel with artists and music creators is that we're so afraid to lose fans that we no longer stand up for what we believe in, publicly. It's that whole Dixie Chicks model of fear that has been implanted into a lot of folks that sometimes is a setback. Musicians and artists are such leaders and forces in the way that we enter people's lives in their most intimate world."
• Scaggs also realized she could use her platform as an artist to make the music industry more inclusive, which inspired her to create Diversify the Stage. Founded in 2020, the organization aims to establish more opportunities within the industry for BIPOC, LGBTQ+, female-identifying, and gender-nonconforming individuals. Scaggs told Songfacts how her own experience coming up in the music industry as a Black woman inspired the initiative.
  
  "I was often the only person of color in a room but also the only woman of color in the room in significant spaces too. Not even just a concert I performed in that happened to be an alternative-focused concert. It was all the time. It was big spaces with corporate giants. It felt like, Why is this normal? There are so many folks that create music, this rainbow tribe of individuals. The universal language of music should not be this uninclusive in a space that puts us on the road, or that builds up a career," she said.
  
  With the goal of an inclusive space in mind, Scaggs started talking to different executives and developing strategies for their companies to better reach different communities. "There was a lot of stuff I was able to start pushing for and primarily because I was an artist," she said.
• This is featured on the digital version of the band's fourth studio album, All The Feels.