Underclass Hero (song)

"Underclass Hero"
Single by Sum 41
from the album Underclass Hero
Released May 15, 2007
Format CD single, digital download
Recorded November 6, 2006 - March 2007
Genre Pop punk
Length 3:16
Label Island
Songwriter(s) Deryck Whibley, Steve Jocz[1]
Producer(s) Deryck Whibley
Sum 41 singles chronology
"No Reason"
(2005)		 "Underclass Hero"
(2007)		 "Walking Disaster"
(2007)

"No Reason"
(2005)		 "Underclass Hero"
(2007)		 "Walking Disaster"
(2007)
Radio Single Cover
(Promo Edition)

"Underclass Hero" is the first single from Sum 41's fourth studio album of the same name. The song impacted radio on May 15, 2007.[2] The song in its entirety was leaked on April 23 from a 91X podcast interview with Deryck Whibley. It was confirmed on Sum 41's official site that this would be the opening track for the album. The song was used in the EA Sports computer game Madden 08 and Sony's NBA 08.[3] It is the band's first single since the departure of guitarist Dave Baksh.

Overview

"Underclass Hero" was written by Whibley with a theme of "us against them", similar to their previous lyrics. Although "Underclass Hero" is written from a different angle, the song refers prominently to society and the struggle of "high-class versus the underclass" instead of "youth against adults" as in All Killer No Filler. The song also uses the more classic punk-rock themes of anti-establishment. This is the theme song for MTV's Crash My School. The song's intro is similar to the band's previous single, "Handle This", but with certain modifications in the notes and tuning.

The chorus of "Underclass Hero" reuses the chorus from the unfinished version of "No Reason", that originally appeared on the band's 2004 album Chuck and was released as a bonus track, titled "Subject to Change".

Music video

Sum 41's video for “Underclass Hero” was premiered May 29, 2007, on their official website. It shows the band playing behind a large group of teenagers, fireworks, a marching-band and bonfire, supposedly a pre-high school pep rally for a football game with a mascot, which represented the anarchy symbol. The video was launched worldwide on May 31, 2007, on Total Request Live on MTV. The video was co-directed by Marc Klasfeld and the Sum 41 drummer, Steve Jocz. This is the band's first video without the former guitarist Dave Baksh, who had left the band the previous year, but returned in 2015.

Charts

Chart (2007) Peak
position
Canadian Hot 100[4] 33
Germany (Official German Charts)[5] 76
UK Singles Chart 188
U.S. Modern Rock Tracks[6] 34
U.S. Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100[7] 16

Track listing

Radio promo

  1. "Underclass Hero" (clean edit)

CD single

  1. "Underclass Hero" - 3:16
  2. "This Is Goodbye" - 2:27
  3. "March of the Dogs" - 3:10
  4. Road to Ruin #4 - webisode
  5. Underclass Hero - video

References

  1. ↑ Billboard Charts - Singles - Canadian Hot 100
  2. ↑ "AllAccess.com Alternative eWeekly". AllAccess. May 8, 2007. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  3. ↑ Magrino, Tom (29 June 2007). "Madden 08 drafts song list". GameSpot. Retrieved 1 July 2007.
  4. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/280955/sum-41/chart?f=793
  5. ↑ "Musicline.de – Sum 41 Single-Chartverfolgung" (in German). Media Control Charts. PhonoNet GmbH.
  6. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/280955/sum-41/chart?f=377
  7. ↑ http://www.billboard.com/artist/280955/sum-41/chart?f=344
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