“I hope people take away the fact that black people have been (in alternative music) consistently over the decades. This isn’t ‘white people music’, it’s a multiracial genre that black people have paved the way for, consistently,” she says. Phillips wanted to write a book that highlighted the consistency of black people in alternative music. In the prologue Phillips writes about how the aesthetic expectations of the 2000s led her to seek out alternative music. “In that moment what the music press wanted was white saviour music” Phillips reflects, “so there is a kind of hypocrisy and double standard there.”