Still Waiting (Sum 41 song)


"Still Waiting" is a song by Canadian rock band Sum 41. It was released in November 2002 as the lead single from the album Does This Look Infected?.

Song meaning

The song is an anti-George W. Bush and anti-Iraq War song.

Music video

The video, directed by Marc Klasfeld, starts with the band members entering the office of a record executive. He says the "number band thing" is "out" and changes the band's name to "The Sums" and the members' individual names. The band then plays the song on a set spoofing The Hives, The Strokes, and The Vines and includes various images of arcade games. At the start of the last chorus, Deryck breaks the choreography and starts trashing his equipment and Dave, Cone, and Stevo do the same thing. The video ends with the four band members pushing down The Sums' name behind them.
Apart from the introduction, the performance was recorded at 30 frames per second as if it was a live performance.
The video contains an easter egg at 1:37, spotting a hangman game screen for a few frames, with "SU_ _1" / "SU_ 41" as text and "LAO GHQ KE9" letters of unknown meaning.

Critical reception

Gareth Dobson of Drowned in Sound criticized the song, writing "Worst of all, the band choose to articulate their sense of misplaced rage in the form of a sub-Offspring SoCal punk dirge. I'd like to say I preferred it when they sang about girls n'that, but I didn't. I just want them to go away."

Track listing

;CD single
  1. Still Waiting
  2. All Messed Up
  3. Motivation
  4. Still Waiting
  5. Still Waiting
;CD Single 2
  1. Still Waiting
  2. In Too Deep
  3. Fat Lip
;CD Single 3
  1. Still Waiting
  2. All Messed Up

    Charts

In popular culture

The song was featured in the 2005 survival horror video game ObsCure.
The song was featured as a playable track in and a downloadable content for both Guitar Hero 5 and Rock Band series.