Songfacts®:

• New Orleans singer-songwriter Erica Falls has been in the music business for a long time (she released her debut EP, Me, Myself & Music, in 2011), so she gets pretty annoyed when people try to put limits on her talent. She told the Songfacts Podcast that she wrote the song "Big" about "not letting people put you in a box, and that no matter what you put your mind to, you can do it."
• In a 2024 interview with Live For Live Music, Falls explained how the song's message is particularly significant for Black female artists: "Sometimes as Black women in the music industry, you can be put in a box. That song came from: 'Don't put me in a box, because I'm too big. Don't put me in something that only your mind can see, because my vision is much bigger than yours. What I see for myself is much bigger than what you see for me … so don't put me in your box.'"
• Falls enlisted legendary bassist George Porter Jr., of the New Orleans funk band The Meters, to play on the track. "When I was writing it, I just heard George," she said. "And he always said, 'So, have you written that song yet that you want me to play on?' And so I said, 'Hey, George, I wrote it. Bless this track.' And he did."
• Falls wrote most of her Emotions album during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown, but she didn't start right away. She was too busy delivering groceries and selling homemade desserts in an effort to pay the bills - until she heard herself singing on a local radio station and burst into tears.
  
  "Those tears opened up my creativity and I started to write," she told Caribbean Life in 2024. "Being independent and due to Covid it took a while to get in the studio. Then the world slowly started to open and I started to record, halfway through the sessions, I lost my mother and it hit me like a ton of bricks. Finishing this project at that time was hard but it was also a blessing because it gave me a way to deal with my loss."