![]() ![]() Amsterdam' is sort of about a guy who hates everything, very bitter person who kind of hates the world." He explains, "He's against the world." The song is also about the complacency of pop culture in 2002, the year that Does This Look Infected? was released, and technology that was new during the year that the album was released. Now this time we've seen a little bit more and our eyes have been opened up a little bit." The album's lyrical topics include hatred, war, internal demons, disliking the world, suicide, drugs, insomnia and HIV. When we were writing the last record everything was happy go lucky. There's been so much stuff going on and it's been so televised. ![]() ![]() "The whole last year has been really crazy around the world. Sum 41's vocalist Deryck Whibley said, "A lot of stuff happened in the past year that opened our eyes to new things," Whibley said. The album's lyrical topics are darker than the lyrical topics on All Killer No Filler. ĭeryck Whibley at the Ottawa Bluesfest in 2003 The music on Does This Look Infected? has been compared to bands such as The Offspring, P.O.D., Metallica, Rancid, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Bad Religion, NOFX, Green Day and Blink-182. Amy Sciarretto of ARTISTdirect wrote that Does This Look Infected? soldifies Sum 41 as "true punk stalwarts". Although the album has been described as pop punk by some sources, .uk considered it an album that shows Sum 41 abandoning the pop punk genre for a more standard punk rock style. Described as heavy metal, horror punk, punk rock, pop punk, and melodic hardcore, the album uses elements of heavy metal, hardcore punk, thrash metal, d-beat and, on the song "Thanks for Nothing", hip hop. It also has fewer elements of pop music than All Killer No Filler. The album is a lot more aggressive, darker and heavier than Sum 41's previous studio album, All Killer No Filler. ![]()
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