[4] It is claimed that the idea came from publisher Dick Leahy's suggestion that Michael write a rock and roll pastiche.

[1][7] While recording the vocals on the Faith album and other subsequent solo albums, Michael would usually write lyrics in front of the mic, and build the lead vocal by singing a line, each time he had Chris Porter rewind the tape so he could drop in at certain points to create the right emotional effect with his voice.

[1] For this song, George wanted the vocals to be "dry and in-your-face", like on Prince's songs at the time, which Porter noted "had a very tight delay on the vocals, making him sound very growly but dry and aggressive"—it was that kind of effect they managed to recreate with an AMS digital delay.

[1] According to Porter, the solo was constructed bar-by-bar over a period of 4 hours in a similar fashion to recording George's vocals.

[10] More recently, it featured in Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One[11] and plays during the wedding scene in Ridley Scott's House of Gucci.

[13] It features Michael, with noticeable stubble on his face, wearing a black leather jacket with 'Rockers Revenge' and BSA logo, Ray-Ban Aviator sunglasses and a pair of Levi's blue jeans with cowboy boots, playing a guitar near a classic-design Wurlitzer jukebox, and a woman's bare legs.

Writers Bob Batchelor and Scott Stoddart say the music video positions him as a "masculine sex object", breaking him up into individual body parts such as "stubbled" [sic] chin and butt.

Word of mouth attendance and energetic live performances in which guitarist Wes Borland appeared in bizarre costumes increased the band's cult following.

However, the final recording, which incorporated heavier guitar playing and drumming, as well as DJ scratching, impressed Robinson.

We like to do really aggressive versions of cheesy pop hits," lead singer Fred Durst told Billboard.