Songfacts®:

• "Got Me Started" is a sparkling, laid-back jam that tells the story of Troye Sivan meeting a guy at a party and feeling that irresistible pull toward a hookup. He dives into the electric chemistry that sparks between two people and the burning desire to give in to that magnetic attraction.
• In the opening verse, Sivan locks onto the guy, praising his personality and sexuality.
  
  By the pre-chorus, they've found a quiet hideaway away from the other party-goers. It's late, but they're wide awake.
  
  Then in the chorus, Sivan gets straight-up honest about his desire for this person: "Kinda miss using my body," he croons.
  
  In the second verse, Sivan goes all in, unapologetic. They're sparking like mad, no way are they're leaving the house. It's time to experiment, and whoever's on the couch be damned!
• According to Sivan, the song is about "remembering who you are and that people are hot" following "feeling emotionally dead after a traumatic relational experience." He added that it's about his first crush since his "resurrection."
  
  Fans believe Sivan's "traumatic relational experience" refers to his breakup with his model boyfriend of four years, Jacob Bixenman.
• Sivan wrote the song with his go-to songwriting partner Leland, frequent Ariana Grande collaborator Tayla Parx, US songwriter Kaelyn Behr, and the song's producer, Ian Kirkpatrick (Dua Lipa's "New Rules" and "Don't Start Now," Selena Gomez' "Bad Liar," and "Back to You," Olivia Rodrigo's "Get Him Back!").
• "Got Me Started" samples the Australian electronic duo Bag Raiders' 2008 track "Shooting Stars." The song went viral in 2017 after featuring in meme videos of people flying through space. Sivan was the first artist Bag Raiders let sample their hit.
  
  "It was something that came in the studio naturally," Sivan told Apple Music 1. "I started seeing the sample (laughing) because I was like, 'There's no way that they're ever going to let me do this.' So while we were in the studio, I texted my A&R from Australia. And obviously because we're all Australians, it was like within 20 minutes he had reached them and I get this text with the stem in my phone. I'll never forget the moment I like play and it just came out so clean completely like solo. And I was like, oh my God. And we put it in and it worked."
• Troye Sivan's red-underwear dance from the "Got Me Started" video was parodied on Saturday Night Live on November 11, 2023. Host Timothée Chalamet performs its choreography, including the moment where Sivan flashes his small red underwear. At the end, Boygenius (Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus) join him as extra Sivans for a final dance.