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224:"All the Time" is the second track on the extended play. Antonioli worked on the track for a year and described it as "beat boppy and electronic". He explained that he had to slow down the music by fifty percent during the recording process, as Birdsong found it difficult to enunciate each word in the chorus, and then sped up the vocals in production. Birdsong said that the song is about not being able to get someone off your mind.
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Birdsong's vocal range and sounded too "bassy". Birdsong described the song as "80s sounding" with "cool synths" added by Antonioli. In a tweet, Birdsong said the lyrics to "Wonder" are "practically a
221:. Sam Antonioli worked on the production for a year and a half whereas Birdsong recorded his vocals in a day. He admitted to being a "perfectionist" and having to eventually accept that the song was "as good as it’s going to be and declare it as done".
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