I wasn’t listening to Sum 41 in 2001. At six years of age, I wasn’t really into music as much as I was into children’s television. But this track always reminds me of the early 00s for some reason. Everything from the sound of it, and its music video. So many pop punk people started showing up in the charts too, it was weird.

“Fat Lip” is just one of those songs isn’t it? No one who listens to Sum 41 has probably heard the track at some point in their lives without even knowing it. If you were to randomly shout out “The doctor said my mum should have had an abortion”, someone will complete the ‘-ortion’ echo because they will know what you’re going on about.

The song’s anti-conformity/fuck rules message is something that’s used all the time, and is a topic that on first listen you might react with approval to but you’ll eventually get over in time. But the rap/rock thing it has going on is pretty catchy, I can’t deny that. Some of the lyrics are downright hilarious.