Last November, rising alt-pop artist Amelia Moore was playing a game of Cards Against Humanity with her friend when one of the cards laid down was the phrase “teaching a robot to love.” "I was like, 'Yo, that's really what it feels like sometimes; I have to write that down, because that's really hard," she tells Apple Music's Travis Mills. In a twist of fate, a couple of weeks later, Moore was in the studio going through what she calls a "nightmare" breakup. Moore's debut EP teaching a robot to love, which navigates dealing with a partner who is void of emotions, was born. teaching a robot to love is a harmonious blend of electro beats layered underneath Moore's striking vocals. Amelia takes listeners on a journey of first love and loss with the overarching theme of how love is what separates people from robots. "You plug me into your walls/And use all my batteries," she sings on the EP's "intro" over automated synth-pop beats provided by her best friends and collaborators, Pink Slip and Inverness. Growing up in a conservative Christian household in Lawrenceville, Georgia, Moore felt depressed with the mundane day-to-day of her life. "Lawrenceville is so removed from the culture, and nobody knows anything or wants to dream big at all," she says. "It's just like, you grew up, you're in church, you meet your fiancé at school, and then you get engaged, and then you just start having kids at 22." She dreamed of being a Broadway superstar, but, in a moment of clarity, realized that she wanted to write and sing her own music rather than pretend to be somebody else onstage and sing somebody else's songs. "Because the people around me made me feel like an idiot for dreaming big, I did not really believe in myself at all," she says. But after participating in an artist development training program from choreographer and entrepreneur Dacia James Lewis, Moore got the push she needed to go after her dreams of becoming an artist. Due to her conservative household, Amelia wasn't very familiar with "secular" music. However, during the pandemic, while she was living in LA with Pink Slip, she familiarized herself with Justin Timberlake's 20/20 Experience and FutureSex/LoveSounds as well as all of Frank Ocean's and Kanye West's discographies. These albums influenced some of the sound and transitions heard on the 21-year-old's debut. With the rerelease of her EP, teaching a robot to love (additional data), the Up Next star added two new tracks, "love me or leave me alone" and "drugs," which serve as the final chapters of the story. "The dust has settled, all of the drama, the rollercoaster is over now," Moore says. "I love you, but I'll leave you alone. And fuck, if I wanted to get so fucked up over somebody, I should have just done drugs, because this whole situation was a nightmare."