It was released in April 1998 as the second single from their debut album, In Loving Memory Of....

[3] Singer Ian Thornley said: It actually came from one particular moment where I came out of a supermarket… and it was the same thing of [thinking about] the same person… almost wanting to dwell on it.

[Then] a car goes whizzing by playing this tune… I only caught about three or four notes of it, and it brought me back and triggered something where I was like ‘Fuck!’ — you know what I mean?

Then you really get into it and you’re really down on yourself and you really want to fucking wallow in it, so you go and put on that song… and it doesn’t work.

[4]Billboard reviewed the song favorably, stating that the song has "spine-crawling beats, jittery guitars...and a boombastic chorus that is so deliciously over the top that you just have to hear it again and again.