While Bareilles wrote the songs for Waitress, which is based on the 2007 film starring Keri Russell, this was the first time she’s performed this song publicly, as it didn’t appear on the concept album she released before the show debuted. “The best part about New York is that people are so nonplussed by anything,” she said. Bareilles told Vulture about the reactions from passersby, who gathered in a small crowd and took a few photos, but may not have realized what they were getting to see. “It felt in the spirit of the show,” she said. “It’s a chamber piece. It’s an everyday story. I wanted to feel like we were jumping out into the middle of everything and doing it from the inside out.”