On August 31, a new snippet of the demo was leaked during an Instagram livestream. On July 19, it was revealed that the song was originally titled "Something Real". The leaker confirmed that the instrumental belonged to a demo of the song. On July 13, 2017, after the album sampler surfaced, an instrumental stem snippet leaked. During an interview with Paris Match magazine, Del Rey revealed that she wrote the song during the summer of 2016 about her experience visiting 13 different beaches in an attempt to escape paparazzi and read a book alone.