Background and composition
"Fat Lip" was written by Sum 41 members Deryck Whibley,Steve Jocz and Dave Brownsound,and in-house producer Greig Nori,with production by Jerry Finn. The song gets its title from the slang term for a swollen lip as a result of being punched in the face.
"It was the last song I had written for All Killer [No Filler]," Whibley told Stereogum in 2021. "The whole album was pretty much done. It was never meant to be a single. It wasn't even supposed to be a song. The very,very first thing I wrote was the guitar riff. And I didn't necessarily write it for this idea that I had for this sort of punk rock-rap kind of thing. I knew I had this old school rap idea mixed with punk rock sort of stuff,but I wrote this riff just as a riff. And then I ended up writing a chorus,like,months later. And then I had this verse. And none of them were supposed to be together. They were just separate things that I was writing over time. And then one day it kind of clicked,and I thought,'Well,these all kind of work. They're all around the same tempo,they're all the same key.' I changed a few things and made it work,now all of a sudden I was like,'OK,I've got the rap part,I've got a riff,and I've got a chorus.' But I don’t have the rest of the song. And then it took a long time before pieces just kind of came together." [1]
The uptempo song has been described as pop punk, [2] skate punk, [3] [4] rap rock [5] and easycore, [6] with Whibley,Brownsound,and Jocz sharing vocal duties. "The verses are really about what we do:growing up in the suburbs,going to parties and hanging out with our friends,and causing trouble. A lot of people say they relate to it," said Whibley. [7] Brian Hiatt of MTV.com described the song as "pop-punk-meets-hip-hop", [8] Loudwire cited it as a containing elements of hard rock [9] and PopMatters cited it as using elements of heavy metal. [10] The song has also been described to be "Mixing elements of skate punk,nu-metal,and good old-fashioned pop" [11]
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