The album is a lot more aggressive , darker and heavier than Sum 41 's previous studio album , '' All Killer No Filler '' . It also has fewer elements of pop music than '' All Killer No Filler '' . 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 . Although the album has been described as pop punk by some sources , '' Counterculture.co.uk '' considered it an album that shows Sum 41 abandoning the pop punk genre for a more standard punk rock style . Amy Sciarretto of '' ARTISTdirect '' wrote that '' Does This Look Infected ? '' soldifies Sum 41 as " true punk stalwarts " . 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 The album 's lyrical topics are darker than the lyrical topics on '' All Killer No Filler '' . 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 whole last year has been really crazy around the world . There 's been so much stuff going on and it 's been so televised . I think we 've all become more aware . When we were writing the last record everything was happy go lucky . 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 . The song " Mr. Amsterdam " is about an embittered man . Whibley said , " ' Mr. 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 . Whibley explained the meaning of " Mr. Amsterdam " , saying , " We depend so much on new technology to make sure that we do n't have to do anything . Everything 's being laid out so we can sit at home and do nothing and never leave our homes . You can order all your groceries from the computer . You can do anything you want . You can just sit there and become fatter . And I think that 's bad . " Dave Baksh , a member of Sum 41 , explained the meaning of the song " All Messed Up " , saying , " There 's a song called ' All Messed Up , ' which is about doing drugs . . . just what we feel when we 're on drugs . " When Whibley spoke about " All Messed Up " , he said , " It 's about those kinds of nights . It 's just about being really messed up and in that whole cracked-out kind of state . " " The Hell Song " is about a friend of Sum 41 who contracted HIV . Whibley spoke about " The Hell Song " saying , " It ’s one of my favorite songs on the record . It 's about this girl I used to date who I 've known forever . Just last Christmas she found that she was HIV positive , and it was so brutal . She does n't sleep around . She 's only had two or three boyfriends and one of them used to cheat on her all the time , and then he got it and gave it to her . It 's the heaviest thing that 's happened in our group of friends . " " No Brains " is about a former band member of Sum 41 . Whibley explained the song 's meaning , saying , " That 's just a basic ' fuck you , I 'm done ' kind of song . This guy was our old singer and I was best friends with him . We had this big falling out . " Whibley explained what the song " Over My Head ( Better Off Dead ) " is about . He said , " It 's not about being fucked up or drunk . It 's more about the aftermath when you 're hearing everything you 've just done the night before , and you 're like , " Ah , fuck , I 'm better off dead . " I do n't regret any of the things I do and I do n't mind doing them , I just hate hearing about it . Being told every morning , " Dude , what did you do last night ? " drives me nuts . " " Still Waiting " was written after the September 11 attacks . Whibley explained the meaning of the song , saying , " It 's not directly about 9/11 or the war on terrorism . It 's about the war on everything . It 's about the world as we know it . It 's no secret that the world does n't get along and there 's all this hatred . It 's everything to do with how this world functions . " Whibley stated on the band 's DVD , '' Sake Bombs And Happy Endings '' , that the album 's song " A.N.I.C. " is a " special love song " dedicated to Anna Nicole Smith . According to him , " A.N.I.C. " stands for ' Anna Nicole is a Cunt ' . " Sum 41 member Dave Baksh said that Anna Nicole Smith is " a fuckin ' loser " and also said , " Look what she 's doing to herself . " Sum 41 stopped including the song in their live performances after Smith died of an overdose in 2007 . However , they put " A.N.I.C. " back into their setlist during the 2012 summer European leg of the Screaming Bloody Murder Tour . When Sum 41 performed the song live after Smith 's death , the band would not show any disrespect towards her , with Whibley saying that the song " A.N.I.C. " stands for " Deryck Whibley is a Stupid Fucking Cunt "
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