“Go Back to L.A.” started out as a joke. Jesika Von Rabbit and a friend were noodling around in her Joshua Tree home studio when she came up with the tune and the catchy, garage rock song stuck. Now, it’s the latest single from the singer’s recently released album, Bunnywood Babylon. “Hopefully, I don’t get too many people upset with me,” Von Rabbit says on a video call. 

The song’s title stems from bumper stickers that have been popping up in the Joshua Tree area following an influx of new residents and tourists from Los Angeles. “Some of the people who grew up out here maybe don’t want some of the more of the hip, fancy stuff that’s coming to town,” Von Rabbit says. “Sometimes that’s out of fear too. People are afraid of what they don’t understand.”