This song was originally titled "Orange County Girl," in reference to co-vocalist Mark Hoppus' wife, who is from Orange County, California.
Producer John Feldmann commented on the song to Fuse TV: "There's no drama. There's no heaviness to it. It's about this girl who is a little bit out of her mind but we love her."
The song nearly got left off California. John Feldmann explained: "We wanted to write a classic, no-brainer pop-punk song: major key, fun, happy, classic. We wrote that one pretty early on. It kind of got shelved because it felt too happy compared to the rest of the record. Travis (Barker, drums) really drove a couple of these songs home. He came back to this one and said, 'Dude, we cannot leave this song off the record. It's too important for the Take Off Your Pants and Jacket-era of Blink.'"
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