| Vocalist [[Davey Havok]] said, "Our A&R guy had this fantasy from all the old rock records, of people going to the South of France or going to Jamaica and immersing, just getting away. And we're not those people." <ref name="yahoo1">{{cite Yahoo.com|url="https://www.yahoo.com/music/backspin-afi-on-their-discography-being-proudly-polarizing-and-why-female-fans-have-the-best-taste-in-music-063647120.html"|title="Backspin: AFI on Their Discography, Being Proudly Polarizing, and Why 'Female Fans Have the Best Taste in Music'"}}</ref> | |
| Guitarist [[Jade Puget]] recalled, "We went with [producer] Jerry Finn up to the farm in Northern California to do pre-production. They wanted us to go stay on this shabby farm; it was such a bummer." <ref name="yahoo1"/> | |
| - | [[Jade Puget]] remembered: "Davey and I flew down there and we just sit in that basement all day. And in the middle of one of these days, I had this 'ding-ding-ding-ding ...' [sings the |
| + | [[Jade Puget]] remembered: "Davey and I flew down there and we just sit in that basement all day. And in the middle of one of these days, I had this 'ding-ding-ding-ding ...' [sings the intro bass line]. I think I played the bass line on the guitar." <ref name="yahoo1"/> |
| [[Davey Havok]] came up with the "Miss Murder" as a throwaway lyric, which he was going to change to the real lyric. But Jade Puget insisted to keep it because he thought that it was cool. <ref name="yahoo1"/> | |
| Davey admitted: "I wrote backwards. Rather than writing with a concept, I wrote with a task to make this lyric into a song, into a concept." <ref name="yahoo1"/> |