“Feelings” details the singer’s confident and open flirtations with a crush. This attitude is contrasted against societal norms of playing hard to get and pretending to be disinterested.

Hayley Kiyoko talks about the inspirations behind “feelings” in an interview with Billboard:

“It started off with me just being frustrated with having people make me feel like I needed to be ashamed of feeling. Kind of like, enjoying this single life, dating world. As soon as you feel it’s like, ‘Oh gosh. You can’t feel. How dare you?’ And I was like, ‘Wow. That’s really messed up.’ And I wanted to write a song about that, because if you listen to the lyrics verbatim, it’s exactly how I feel. I over-communicate, I feel too much. That’s who I am. Why can’t I just be myself, and why do I have to be ashamed of that?”

“Feelings” was confirmed to be on Hayley Kiyoko’s upcoming album Expectations set to be released on March 30, 2018.