Eager to begin her career in music, Fiona-Lee’s initial move to London was meant to kickstart this process, however the origins of "Mother" and its subject matter instead detail the traumatic experience she faced: “The song’s about a difficult situation I was in a few years ago, where I’d moved to London and was living in the basement of my then manager’s office. I wanted to leave and stop working with him because he wasn’t a nice guy, but felt totally stuck because it was like he owned me and I knew how badly he’d react if I left," she explains.

"It starts out very vulnerable as a cry for help, then as it goes on it becomes angrier and more empowered, basically how I felt as the situation developed and I managed to leave. So it’s essentially about being a young woman that’s being controlled and taken advantage of by a 50 year old dude in the music industry. This shit happens all the time-especially to young women-so I feel really strongly about discussing the subject matter of this song, which is ultimately men abusing their power.”