The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste for the album. Bill Rieflin and Chris Connelly instead attributed the album's sound to the band's interest in technology. For pre-production, Rieflin said he and Barker watched films for a month, sampling anything that caught their interest. Instead of writing music, they all improvised individually, rarely collaborating with each other. Connelly compared it to exquisite corpse, a Surrealist technique in which an artistic work is created collaboratively without any of the participants having knowledge of the others' contribution. Rieflin cited "So What" as the only track to feature two musicians in the studio at the same time. After playing with
This Is What You Came For spin and there is an earworm quality to this one that will stick with you for a while. It may not have the lasting power of 'We Found Love,' but it will dominate the radio all summer." He praised the song for creating a catchy hit, however he criticized Harris for failing to create anything new. "NPR" listed it at 89 on its "Top 100 Songs of 2016" list, while "Fuse" considered it the 10th best song of the year. The song was listed as #9 in "The Ten Worst Songs of 2016" video published by YouTuber Adam Buckley on