“100 Bad Days” is the first single from AJR’s third album Neotheater. Band member Jack Met mentioned in an interview that the track touched on their most frequently used mantra, “this is going to be a good story.”
The trio told Billboard:
As a band, and as guys in their twenties, most of our exper...
[Verse 1]
Remember when we all got drunk?
I ended up with two broke thumbs
Oh my God, I felt so dumb, lucky me
I wrote a song that no one knows
I played a show and no one showed
Oh my God, I felt so alone, lucky me
[Pre-Chorus]
(Ah) When all is going wrong and you're scared as hell
(Ah) What you gonna do? Who you gonna tell?
[Chorus]
Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties
A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more
[Post-Chorus]
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da, da
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da, da
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more
[Verse 2]
Remember when she broke my heart
Waitin' for the waiter to return my card?
Right as I let down my guard, lucky me
We had to work a bit more hard
Only just to get a little bit less far
We could laugh about it all tomorrow, couldn't we?
[Pre-Chorus]
(Ah) When all is going wrong and you're scared as hell
(Ah) What you gonna do? Who you gonna tell?
[Chorus]
Maybe a hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties
A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more
[Post-Chorus]
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da, da
La-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da, da, da
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more
[Bridge]
Screw your thing, it goes like this
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you
[Chorus]
A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you
A hundred bad days made a hundred good stories
A hundred good stories make me interesting at parties, yeah
No, I ain't scared of you
No, I ain't scared of you no more
100 Bad Days was produced by Ryan Met.
AJR released 100 Bad Days on Tue Jan 29 2019.
Producer Ryan Met posted a video titled: HOW WE MADE: “100 BAD DAYS” to the band’s Instagram account, briefly going through the creation of the track:
I think that just started with, a bad day. I think we’d just had a bad day of shows, we played some maybe private shows, and no one cared and it just kind of sucked. I think I said to Ryan: “a million bad days make a million good stories,” I think I had that written in my phone. And he was like, no,...
This song was certified Gold by the RIAA on February 5, 2020.