Songfacts®:

• 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."
• When Halestorm started writing for their Vicious album, they were initially unsure how to go about it. Their producer Nick Raskulinecz suggested they get together and start jamming. This song originated as an instrumental from those sessions. It was only later that Lzzy Hale added the lyrics.
• Speaking to Kerrang in 2018, Lzzy Hale explained why out of all the Halestorm songs, this is the one she'd most like to be remembered for.
  
  "It's about being an ambassador for a rebellious rock and roll attitude in life and about always being unapologetically you," she said. "That's something I've strived for throughout my whole life, and a kind of mission statement that I've been trying to spread with the band for a few years now. I've always said that if I can leave this world and know that I put some positivity out there doing my time here, then that will be mission accomplished."
• This turned out to be, er, uncomfortable for Lzzy Hale to sing because of its musical arrangement. "I ended up doing probably the fastest verse I've ever written for myself and the most, I guess, complicated melodic riffing in the chorus that I've really ever done," she told ABC Radio. "Then I realized at the end of it, 'Man, if everybody likes this, I'm gonna have to do this every night.'"
  
  In addition the titular word itself is actually pretty difficult to sing. "It's interesting when you start reaching beyond the words that are semi-normal for a rock band to use, and we've used a lot of those words," Hale laughed. "Freak, bites, teeth...love and whatever. So the task to make ['uncomfortable'] singable was definitely a small hump in the road."
  
  The Halestorm frontwoman thought about changing the lyric, before taking inspiration from #1 pop hit. "I started thinking, 'Well, somehow 'Poker Face' ended up being really singable for Lady Gaga, so I might as well try to do it,'" she said.
• Lzzy Hale told ABC Radio that though the band were excited about releasing the song as single, they felt it was a risk for them as it doesn't have a "traditional rock radio chorus." Instead it was based on a "vocal riff" that Hale would sometimes used to warm up her voice.