With "The Makings of Me" comprising an outweighing slower set of mid-tempo recording and ballads, J Records's decision to release up-tempo record "Everytime tha Beat Drop", an eleventh-hour addition to the album that had originally been recorded for a different project, to lead it, was met with mixed reaction from Monica's team. While she considered the song a not unwelcome breakaway from her sound, Monica later blamed the selection on the album's overall performance since she felt that the "Everytime tha Beat Drop" did not speak to her core audience and was a poor representation of the album as a whole. After "The Makings of Me"s commercial underperformance, she felt obliged to follow a more authentic approach on her next project "Still Standing" which abandoned "all the different gimmicks and trends" in favor of a record that lived up to the sound her previous hits, particularly those from the 1990s.