• Tegan and Sara wrote a Substack post about this song.

“This is the first song that Sara wrote of the new stuff that got on the record, and she wrote it probably two or three months after we finished If It Was You, our last record which hadn't even come out yet [at that point]. It was the first time she'd really ever recorded anything on Protools and the demo of it basically sounds just like the actual recording except with drums and bass. She ran her vocals through a Sans Amp plug-in, it was really trashy, and it was Sara's ode to Smashing Pumpkins and all the hard rock bands she wishes she was in. She said that that was the type of band she wishes she was in and she wishes the whole record sounded like that, so we're gonna throw her out and see how she does on her own. But yeah, that's one of my favorite songs and it was written in a series of songs that didn't make it on the record that Sara thought were kind of personal. She was going through a breakup at the time and didn't end up wanting to put them on the record but she allowed us to put I Bet It Stung on because it turned out really great and we all really loved it.” - Tegan in 2005