Cody wrote the song about then-girlfriend Gigi Hadid, as he confessed to MTV while discussing the music video.

Working with my girl makes it so much more comfortable. I’ve never had a girlfriend in a music video before. I thought, ‘might as well have the girl in that inspired the song,’ and it just made the chemistry so natural. Some scenes where they didn’t end up putting in the video was us kissing or whatever, but we ended up shooting those scenes as options, and they ended up yelling ‘cut,’ and we didn’t stop.

Cody discussed Beyonce’s use of the word “surfboard” while talking to MTV about the track.

I think Beyonce kind of made surfboard a sexual innuendo that people wouldn’t necessarily have picked up on if my song had come out without her using that term [in her song “Drunk In Love.”] I’ve been writing about surfboards my whole life. All of my albums have been Surfer’s Paradise or something like that, so I mean honestly I had the idea. I love Beyonce’s album, I love [the song,] and I was like if there was any time to release that song it was now since this term is a part of pop culture, which is exciting for me being a surfer myself.