Prior to the release of "The One", M.I.A. performed the song at Just Like Heaven festival on 21 May 2022 along with another
MATA track "Marigold". She told
Zane Lowe of
Apple Music 1 in a live radio interview that the song "is just about sticking to what you are and the truth. I think, at the end of the day, that is also what this record is about to me, is still trying to find truth." ==Charts==