Like, who’s “Betty”?

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It's been exactly 10 years since Motion City Soundtrack gave us Commit This to Memory — an album that inspired the emo awakenings of prepubescent teens everywhere — so we asked the band to take us all the way back, and to explain the meaning and standout references behind some of their most memorable lyrics.

OCD — that's where that came from. (laughter) We weren't as imaginative as a young twentysomething-year-old man would be, so I just wrote out a list of things I did. I did accidentally set my bathroom on fire once. Well, it wasn't an accident as it was drunk and hysterical and craziness, but I changed the bathroom to kitchen cause I thought kitchen sounded better. I used to drive and think there was something wrong with my tires ... and I'd go nuts. I was very anxiety- and OCD-prone.

—Justin Pierre

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