“Bridges” is the first song in which Fifth Harmony discusses politics. According to Lauren:

Lots of people want to keep (politics) out of their art because they assume the role of, ‘I’m the distraction, I’m the escapism, I’m the thing that people use to check out of the world,’ so a lot of people don’t want to get involved, not because they’re scared, but because they don’t want to have those conflicts

During a Facebook live, the girls described the song as a message of hope as well as a product of their “passion about what was going on in the world”.

Fifth Harmony first performed this song live at the FYE Album Release party.