On Friday March 11, 2016, singer/songwriter Laura Marano released her debut single “Boombox”, launching her singing career as an artist under the Big Machine Label Group (a country-based label with artists such as Taylor Swift and Florida Georgia Line).

In an interview with Just Jared Jr., she said:

I finally feel like I am really, and truly authentic to myself. As I say, I like to tell everyone that my music is like Maroon 5 and 5 Seconds of Summer who spent the night out on the town and had a female love child. That would be me.

She posted the title of her single to her social media accounts on February 12, 2016, and officially announced the release date nearly a month later in an interview with Radio Disney.