In the Meantime is the third studio album by Canadian singer and songwriter Alessia Cara. The album was released in September 24, 2021, by Def Jam Recordings. Cara collaborated with Jon Levine, Salaam Remi and Joel Little among several other producers on the project. Three singles were released to promote album: "Sweet Dream", "Shapeshifter", and "Best Days", with "Sweet Dream" charting at number 77 on the Billboard Canadian Hot 100 chart. In the Meantime follows Cara's 2019 EP This Summer, released on September 6, 2019. “This is just a capsule of the last year of my life,” Alessia Cara explained to Apple Music's Strombo about her third album. “Throughout the creation of this process, I hit a few different rock bottoms, and I think through those rock bottoms, I found some sort of catalyst for changing the way that I was living.” It's heavy context for a project that often lands on the ear gently, light-heartedly even, but the contrast is in part the point. On “Unboxing Intro”, she seems to come apart, growing steadily more frenzied as she sings: “Need some clarity, I miss therapy/Hyperbolic, melancholic/Do I call him? I feel nauseous/Have I lost it? Have I almost hit the bottom?” But the production on “Box in the Ocean”, which immediately follows, suggests the bottom is a tropical island away from it all rather than the claustrophobic places of her mind encapsulated in the lyrics. According to Cara, this is by design. She points to the soothing lullaby swing of “Sweet Dream