Uncomfortable

This brash slice of hard rock finds Lzzy Hale urging the listener to be unapologetically themselves and not to be people pleasers. I did it all, to break every single preconceived notion that you have I did it all to shake every single one of your emotions, and just to make you Uncomfortable I love to make you Uncomfortable Speaking in a question-and-answer session transcribed by Blabbermouth.net, Hale explained the song's message is something she has "talked with fans about a lot." She added: "In this day and age especially, you can't make everybody happy - you just can't - and I know that has been a personal struggle for me throughout my life. And so this song is just basically saying that's okay if you can't make everybody happy. Make yourself happy, be you, and be proud that just by being yourself, you're gonna make a lot of people uncomfortable."

The storming all-out metallic jam was one of the first songs Halestorm came up with in the studio after finishing touring their Into the Wild Life album. It ended up being released as Vicious' lead single. Drummer Arejay Hale said: "It seems like every time we go in the studio after touring, we kind of feel like just a pent-up pressure cooker just ready to go. It seems to be a pattern. With the last record, it was 'Mayhem'; with the record before that, it was 'Love Bites.' These songs, we were just like, 'We just wanna make something crazy and high energy and really fun to play and really fun to listen to - stuff that we would like.' And just by sheer luck, it ends up being the first single. Everybody else on the team was, like, 'Yeah, we like the energy of it. Let's do it.'"

Lzzy Hale admitted to ABC Radio in 2018 that it was only recently that she stopped being a people pleaser. "You realize, as I've approached and got into my 30s, that you can't make everybody happy, so you might as well just be yourself," she said. "Then you start relishing and being proud of the fact that just by being yourself, you're gonna make a good percentage of people uncomfortable."