She suggested that the song dealt with her personal experience with bisexuality. The idea behind the song was to be with a man but fantasizing about a woman, hence the man in the song needs to read her "Poker Face" to understand what is going through her mind.

In the Peacock murder-of-the-week procedural “Poker Face,” Natasha Lyonne plays Charlie Cale, a former cocktail waitress and poker hustler with a difference: Charlie is a human lie detector in a trucker hat, able to spot a falsehood from across the casino floor.

The Mountain Goats frontman plays in a one-hit-wonder metal band alongside Chloë Sevigny on the new Peacock comedy from Natasha Lyonne and Rian Johnson. John Darnielle as Al, Chloë Sevigny as Ruby Ruin, and G.K. Umeh as Eskie in Poker Face. Photo by Sara Shatz/Peacock.

The song was inspired by Gaga's fear of men and is about her bidding farewell to her Latino lovers named Alejandro, Roberto and Fernando. Some critics praised the track's catchiness and production while others criticized it as unoriginal, mainly due to the influence from the pop acts ABBA and Ace of Base.