Alkaline Trio guitarist and vocalist Matt Skiba joined Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker after original guitarist and vocalist Tom DeLonge departed Blink-182 in 2015. "Bored" was Skiba's first single with Blink-182, and the band's first single to not feature DeLonge. Skiba and Hoppus share the vocals on this song. "From my point of view, it was sort of a response to Mark's call in the first verse of us traversing a relationship and kind of navigating through when things get real murky," Skiba explained to ET Online of his verse. "It's easier to say you're bored, or to be angry, than it is to be sad. To me, that's what that verse and that song represents."
Speaking on Los Angeles' KROQ's The Kevin & Bean Show, drummer Travis Barker said this was the first song the group recorded together when they hit the studio in early January 2016 with producer John Feldmann (Good Charlotte, 5 Days of Summer). "I think it was a really great first representation of what the band sounds like," he said.
The original plan to release "Bored" had to be aborted when blink-182 found out that someone had leaked the lyric video. "I found out about it because we had just finished rehearsal and I literally picked up my phone to check my messages there were all these alerts saying 'I love the new Blink song,'" said Hoppus.
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