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For Ades, "Crying During Sex" is about a "really confusing hard time" in her life when she found herself getting emotional during sexual encounters. "I felt like my body was hovering above me, and it was so scary and confusing and sad at the same time," she says. "I'm not in that place anymore, but I wrote this in the thick of it so I could try and make sense of the experience." Emotions — especially the darkest, craziest ones — are the most universal to sing about, and Ades does so without depicting her own as something to be ashamed of.