16, 2013. The song was written in memory of her grandfather who died in September that same year. It was her first release on music since 2009. However, the song was not promoted to radio and Tisdale eventually paused working on the album because she "wasn't excited about anything [she] was doing" and began adventuring into other ventures such as makeup and clothing lines. In 2016, Tisdale relaunched her YouTube channel and began posting acoustic cover versions of hit songs, collaborating with other artists such as Vanessa Hudgens, Lea Michele, Echosmith's Sydney Sierota and her husband Chris French. The success of the Paramore's "Still into You" cover featuring Chris French led Tisdale to release it as a promotional single in 2016. Early in 2018, Tisdale released an extended play titled Music Sessions, Vol. 1 containing a few of the covers she originally recorded for her YouTube channel. Recording Although Tisdale had been thinking about releasing a new album since 2013, she was not inspired by the content of the material she had been working on. Later in 2018, she discussed the mental health issues she had gone through with her co-writer Rachel West, and together they wrote a song titled "Symptoms", which led Tisdale to be inspired to resume work on her third studio album. Tisdale eventually signed with then-newly launched label Big Noise and in July, 2018, announced her third studio album would be titled Symptoms, which was then set to be released sometime in the fall of 2018. Concept and lyrical content Tisdale had been silently fighting anxiety and depression for years, so working on the album was therapeutic for her. She wanted each song of the album to discuss a symptom of anxiety and depression in an implicit way so the songs could have other meanings as well. She elaborated by describing the song "Love Me & Let Me Go", which "has the undertones of me talking about my journey with anxiety and depression, but... it could be about a boyfriend, it doesn't have to be about that". When asked by Paper magazine on November 9, 2018, what had inspired her to record the album, Tisdale claimed: Promotion The album was supported by the lead single, "Voices in My Head", released on November 8, 2018, and later by a second and final single, "Love Me & Let Me Go", released on January 25, 2019. On April 11,