The LGBT publication "Baltimore OUTloud" reported in 2012 that dance music artists known as the Perry Twins were writing and producing new music for Day, although nothing more was said about Day in this article. Two years later, on September 4, 2014, Day uploaded a song titled "Need You in My Life" to his YouTube channel. In the description, Day called this the first song on which he understood the "meaning songwriting" and noted that it was inspired by a relationship in which he and the other person had to part ways, in spite of their strong feelings for one another. "Time was not on our side. It's usually like that for me...[but maybe, just maybe we would meet again", Day wrote about the song.