Motivation

Album: All Killer No Filler (2001)
Charted: 21
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Songfacts®:

  • This song is about having a lack of motivation. Lead singer Deryck Whibley said in an interview that this song is like your Sunday, when you can't be bothered doing anything. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Wayne - Leeds, England
  • "Motivation" was the third single from Sum 41's debut album, All Killer No Filler. The song didn't chart in America but went to #21 in the UK, where the band was surprisingly popular. When they toured there for the first time in 2003, they played to their biggest crowds.
  • The video was directed by Ronan Keating and Samantha Mumba and shot in a replica of drummer Stevo 32's attic bedroom, where the band wrote songs.

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