"Screamager" is a song by Northern Irish rock band Therapy?, released on March 8, 1993 from their debut EP Shortsharpshock E.P.
[2] One afternoon, Cairns and Michael McKeegan were watching television in a shared hotel room when they came across the Smash Hits Awards.
McKeegan referred to the young girls in the audience who were screaming at Phillip Schofield and others onstage as "screamagers", which Cairns thought of as a title for a song.
It has a classic format, but it's the little things: the stop-start intro, the double-time at the end… originally, Fyfe was playing this really bizarre Neil Peart, eight-bar fill, but Chris Sheldon told us: "Well, if you're going for classic Ulster punk, go straight in.
It kind of just toughened it up and made the chorus bigger and sweeter-sounding and also kept the grit in the verse, which is exactly what we wanted.[2]Therapy?
According to Andy Cairns, the song was about "getting away from any responsibility" and the only "autobiographical side of it" was the opening line, "With a face like this, I won't break any hearts".
[3] Andy Kellman of AllMusic commented that "Metal-phobes can't help but give in to the irresistable [sic] pop-punk hook" of the song.