Coyle tells MTV.com that the new song "The Sound Of Failure / It's Dark...Is It Always This Dark?" tells the story of "a girl who's just lost a friend, and everywhere she goes, her friends are like, 'Oh, it's all good, girl!'" he continued. "And she doesn't want to dismiss them, but she wants to embrace these failures in life — even though she's inexperienced, she's trying to become experienced." He continues, "There's a line in that song that goes, 'So go tell Britney and go tell Gwen,' and I guess part of what I'm railing against on that song is this preternaturally happy music sung by kids and written by 40-year-old Swedish men. And in between them there's this void. I guess the worst offender is like the Black Eyed Peas or Destiny's Child, where they're going, 'I'm a survivor, I'm gonna make it,' and I'm like, 'Well, you're 20, what are you going to survive? Getting a bikini wax this weekend?'"

The Lips will shoot a video for the lead single "The Yeah Yeah Yeah Song" in Los Angeles later this month. In typical oddball Lips fashion, Coyne says the clip will possibly have him "dressed up as an evil king, and at one point I have a lion on a chain," he enthused. "And [the directors] have real animals in their videos, so that excited me to no end, to be able to work with an actual lion. I just hope I don't get mauled or anything like that."