Jake Shears wrote the song based on his own experience telling his
Southern Baptist parents about his sexuality during a family holiday when he was a teenager. "I was just irritated. There was nothing really for me to do there as a 17-year-old, and I just wanted to stir the pot a little bit," he said. "So I basically came out to my mom while we were doing our hair in the bathroom, getting ready to go see
Michael Crawford." He later wrote the music and lyrics while visiting his parents in
Bristol, Virginia. "Sometimes my best writing actually comes out in the shower because you've got no sort of input. There's nothing there to distract you. And I'll just start singing. And I just started singing. That chorus just came out of my mouth and I jumped out. I had a little tape recorder and I grabbed it and I sang it." ==Critical reception==