FUCKING X-TREME!!!!!!

I was snowboarding last week. But that isn't the point. On the way home, to complete my X-Treme transformation, I was listening to Sum 41. Does This Look Infected, their Junior release, to be exact.
I came to the song “Thanks for Nothing”. A friend in Grade 8 insisted the song was about pornography, so I always listened to it very carefully. This was no exception.
It also made me realize why I love Sum 41.
You see, the thing about Sum 41 is that they're hilarious people. At first listen, this song's, and the entire album, is an exception. But when you listen harder, and really get it, it changes. This is one of their greatest post-All Killer No Filler songs.
The key to this song is that it's a dialogue between the two characters. That's what most people don't get. People assume that it's two people yelling at you, one saying that life sucks (I'll never take part in the growing population / Or waste my time with further education) and the other one saying this sucks (Reality's a bore / You ask me to believe in something fake).
But no, as I said before, this is a dialogue, not a united front. It's one guy yelling about how much life sucks, and the other one yelling about how much he sucks (All I know is I've heard this all before). That line is the key to the song. The chorus guy, who I think is Derek, represents Johnny Everyteen, that is getting tired of the media. The verse is the media, telling Johnny that everyone is trying to manipulate and control him, but Johnny is finally waking up. Johnny is finally seeing that no one really cares about him, that reality is not as exciting as the media is telling him. Johnny finally reaches the conclusion that the media is doing nothing for him, which makes the title, “Thanks for Nothing”, makes sense.
So, Sum 41 is doing commentary about media distorting the truth of government by seemingly writing a song about distorting the truth of government.
And that's why they're genius.
Incidentally, this song also represents Sum 41 maturing as a band, which made them lose their original genius and become all angsty.