“Backseat Serenade” was written on tour in 2011.
It is guitarist Jack Barakat’s favorite on the album.

Vocalist and lead writer Alex Gaskarth told Billboard:

That song really defined and set the tone for the album. That was an earlier track, and it was something that we worked on for a while. The lyrical content didn’t come for a while. I had the melody and I had the music and suddenly this concept worked itself into the song. It’s one of the stronger songs on the album. It’s a cool culmination of old All Time Low and future All Time Low."

The song features Cassadee Pope, whose band Hey Monday toured with All Time Low on The Dirty Work Tour in 2011. At the time, Pope was dating drummer Rian Dawson of All Time Low.