According to Keith Topping's book The Complete Clash, the song was about Jones's girlfriend at the time, the same woman who was the topic of "Deny".
[3] According to the story often told by the song's authors Joe Strummer and Jones, including on the documentary Westway to the World, the change came about by Strummer mishearing the song's title when Jones played it to him during their first meeting at their Davies Road squat.
However, by the time of the concert on 20 September 1976 at the Roundhouse, Camden, the song was performed using its new title.
Originally demoed with slightly different lyrics during the Clash's second demo session with their soundman Mickey Foote as producer, "I'm So Bored with the U.S.A."'s lyrics do exactly what its title suggests, condemning several aspects of the American society,[4] such as drug problems in the U.S. Army (particularly heroin), support of American government backed dictatorships in the Third World (a theme later repeated on the Sandinista!
track "Washington Bullets"), and popular series Starsky and Hutch and Kojak.