[5] Bassist Billy Gould later revealed in an interview to Rolling Stone[6] that the band was on the way to release a new album in April 2015, also stating "Motherfucker" was going to be the first single from it, with a limited print of 5,000 seven-inch copies on Record Store Day.

It's a huge deal for us to only have ourselves to answer to at this point in our career and the song is about that, where the buck stops via the basic imagery of foie gras production, bondage.

[4]Christopher R. Weingarten of Rolling Stone wrote that the song "marches forth with the doom-laden raps of their 1989 breakthrough The Real Thing, the triumphant choruses of their 1997 swan-song Album of the Year, the moan-to-screech dynamics of Mike Patton's avant-minded solo career and a merciless snare cadence tip-tapping at the edges of sanity.

stated the song "takes on properties of the FNM of old, whether it be Mike Patton's The Real Thing rap cadence, or the way the vocalist can easily turn out soaring vocal melodies to gruff and grizzly growls targeting the 'motherfucker' that tricked them in their youth."

"[10] Rick Giordano of the Riverfront Times wrote in December 2014 that, "one of the most creative and influential bands in recent memory with possibly the most versatile, highly admired vocalist in the last few decades releases its first single in almost twenty years... and has the keyboard player do lead vocals on a song that kinda sounds like Bloodhound Gang, and calls it 'Motherfucker'?