Sweet About Me and complete the recording of "Sweet About Me". The song was co-written by Cilmi in collaboration with its producers Xenomania, who are critically acclaimed for their work with Girls Aloud, Sugababes and Kylie Minogue. "Sweet About Me" was written after Cilmi was pillaging a Parisian record store for inspiration. Cilmi was listening to early psychedelic music around the time when she wrote the song. Lyrically, Cilmi said that the song is saying, "We're all going to make mistakes, so we might as well have fun while we're making them." Cilmi explained "Sweet About Me" to Bob Henderson of "Gay Times",
He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) may not have seen "Liliom", it is possible that they were familiar with the successful 1956 film version of "Carousel", which contains essentially the same line. However, King has stated that their friend who inspired the song had used that exact phrase. Carole King, in that same radio interview, said that she was sorry she had ever had anything to do with the song. She was a survivor of repeated domestic abuse (but not from Goffin, who had been her husband from 1959 to 1969). He Hit Me (And It Felt Like a Kiss) "He Hit Me (And It Felt