Songfacts®:

• On her R&B hit "How Was I Supposed To Know?," we learned that Xania Monet's dad wasn't around to teach her what real love looked like, so she had to learn the hard way by suffering through unhealthy relationships like the one in "I Asked For So Little." On the soulful track, Monet is tired of fighting for a man who has time for everyone else but her. She doesn't want money or gifts, just respect and consistency, but he can't even offer that. "I asked for so little, but still got less," she sings.
• Xania Monet is an AI artist. Her creator, Telisha Nikki Jones, writes the lyrics but uses the AI platform Suno to generate the music and vocals. Although Monet was the subject of a bidding war among record labels, several major companies backed out due to a collective copyright-infringement lawsuit against Suno for using their music catalogs to train its technology (she ultimately signed a $3 deal with Hallwood Media).
  
  Monet's manager, Romel Murphy, insisted in a Billboard interview that Jones' songs are original works because they rely on her lyrics and not "a hook and a bridge and a catchy chant - it's just the lyrics, and they are pure."