Singer, songwriter, actor, and social media personality Lexi Jayde debuted her own brooding, reflective pop as a 16-year-old with "Whatever" in 2019. A year later, after appearing on the web series Crown Lake and growing her social media following, her song "If I Really Love You" topped a million streams. Jayde's debut EP, a teenage diary, followed in mid-2021. She soon garnered tens of millions of streams with the viral "drunk text me," from her follow-up EP, 2022's closer to closure.