In a 2018 interview, Cara described how the time of receiving awards for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" in early 1984 was also quite painful. "Unfortunately, I was going through a lot of hassles with my record company… So on the outside, I was putting on a face of being on top of the world and being a success, and on the inside I was trying to figure out how to sue my label." Al Coury, the former RSO executive who signed Cara to his newly-formed Network Records a few years earlier, was "acting like a manager, which he shouldn't have been doing," according to Cara. Her musical contribution to "D.C. Cab", for example, was something that Coury arranged. She confronted him about not receiving financial compensation for her first album or for "Flashdance... What a Feeling" but was given the runaround.