About Wrong Places

“Wrong Places” was H.E.R.’s songwriting selection for being a guest artist on the second season of the American television series Songland. The song was originally demoed by actress, singer, and rising songwriter Raquel Castro.

Raquel Castro told in her backstage interview, that the song was one of many she had composed after she found it hard to do anything after the "Jersey Girl" and the fame that followed. She added, "I waited years and years and years to be standing here right now. Being here on Songland really gives me that confidence that I think I've been in need of for a very, very long time."

Gabriella Wilson (born June 27, 1997), better known professionally as H.E.R. (pronounced "her", a backronym for Having Everything Revealed), is an American singer and songwriter. Before gaining notability as H.E.R., Wilson rose to fame by participating in Radio Disney's Next Big Thing in 2009. She later signed to RCA Records at the age of 14 and released the single "Something to Prove" under her real name in 2014.

"The first version of 'Wrong Places' was just vocal and guitar, super stripped down," Raquel Castro commented, "Now we're adding drums and more bass." H.E.R. decided to do the acoustic version of this song and she performed it from home.

Wilson re-emerged in 2016 with the H.E.R. persona, releasing her debut EP H.E.R. Volume 1. She then released subsequent EPs H.E.R. Volume 2 (2017), The B Sides (2017), I Used to Know Her: The Prelude (2018) and I Used to Know Her: Part 2 (2018). Her first compilation album H.E.R. was released in October 2017, consisting of tracks from the singer's first two EPs plus six additional songs. H.E.R. was nominated for five Grammy Awards at the 61st Annual Grammy Awards in 2019, winning Best R&B Performance and Best R&B Album.

In 2020, she was nominated for five awards at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year for I Used to Know Her and Song of the Year for "Hard Place".