Badass

Album: Under Your Skin (2011)
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  • The band wrote this song with their producer Bobby Huff, who came up with the idea during their first songwriting sesson. "Bobby Huff had an idea for where he wanted the song to go, and he had a rough idea for the chorus," Saliva guitarist Wayne Swinny told us. "We sat down in the studio; I had a guitar, and he had his phone with his little ideas that he hummed into it, and we put together a song really quick and easy."

    "It was meant to be one of those 'sports anthem kind of songs,'" Swinny continued. "A lot of our songs, whether they were intended that way or not - most of them weren't - they just lend themselves to sporting events."

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