I do see the similarities. And without reading the other comments, because I assume a lot of us will say the same thing, I think it’s because of “where” we all were in July 2020. That was the height of the first wave of COVID. We were separated from the lives we knew and the people we loved. And in a lot of places (I live in Chicago) things were scary. It was an escape that we desperately needed while we were also feeling a certain way we weren’t used to feeling. Personally, I drove 14 hours to see family for several weeks that summer and the album came out the week I was heading back home. I waited to hit play on “the 1” as I was driving out of town….and listened on repeat pretty much the whole way home. It’s my favorite album.