I think the easiest answer is that those have always been my people. I’ve never set out to write specifically for them, but it makes sense I did because that’s what’s always resonated with me, personally. Just trying to figure out your identity probably resonates with queer people… It’s always been who my friends are; who I have the most laughs with, who I have the best nights out with, and so it makes sense that they’d be the ones who would support me.TV has very little patience for the anti-pop faction — the derisive, elitist contingent of people who continue, in 2019, to question the efficacy and importance of Top 40. Especially in a cultural climate where many pop practitioners get personal and challenge the status quo, Allie doesn’t understand the double standard attached to the genre she’s dedicated her life to, and she’s ready to take it to task. Fans also weighed in with their appreciation for the work, writing, “These lyrics tho...im happy for her” and “JUST LISTENED TO GOLDEN THING BYEEEEEE “Two years ago, I went to a friend’s house party. I thought it would be OK, but when I got there I didn’t know what to do with myself. It was Hell,” she recalls. "It wasn’t because of anything that was going on — I just realized how uncomfortable I was interacting with people in that sort of environment.” Unlike many introverts, who might navigate through their social anxieties in silence, Alessia used her experience as the basis for lyrics. “The next day I went into the studio with my co-writer Sebastian Kole and pieced together this rhyming rant,” she says. “I didn’t think that anyone was going to hear it, or that other people even felt the same way I did.”