Addicted

A track from the golden age of pop-punk, "Addicted" is about the heartbreak of being dumped. The guy in the song did everything he could to make it work, but she still left. No matter how hard he tries, he can't forget her because he's addicted to her love.

Simple Plan frontman Pierre Bouvier doesn't quite finish the word when he tells the girl, "I'm a dick," before clarifying, "I'm a dick-ted to you." This bit dates back to 1990, when Red Peters asked, "How's your dick... tation machine" in his song "How's Your Whole... Family?" Simple Plan forebears blink-182 also used these shenanigans, titling albums Enema Of The State and Take Off Your Pants And Jacket. The band thought it would get bleeped at some point, but it never did. "I guess America is opening up to dick jokes," drummer Chuck Comeau said.

In a Songfacts interview with Pierre Bouvier, he said the song was built around the "I'm a dick" line. "I remember specifically writing that song in Chuck's parents' house in his bedroom and coming up with that line, which was the anchor of that whole song," said Bouvier. "The first thing we wrote for that song was the little riff, then we had that line, 'I'm a dick, I'm addicted to you.' We were trying to push the envelope and do stuff that would attract people's attention and stand out from the masses. That's how we came up with 'I'm just a kid and life is a nightmare' on 'Just A Kid,' and for 'Addicted' it was the 'stutter' part as we called it, because you don't want to say 'I'm a dick' - it's just a stutter."