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Brancowitz says the group considered naming the album Lawsuit! or Death!, before deciding on Bankrupt!, complete with an exclamation point. "We looked for all the beautiful words, and we got bored; and then we looked for the frightening, powerful words, and then we got excited."

The band also revealed that lead single "Entertainment" was inspired by North and South Korea. Brancowitz told MTV News, "When we wrote this song, we we're thinking of Korea a lot, and when we thought about the video, we knew we wanted to do something about South and North Korea. And we talked with Patrick Daughters, the video's director, and he told us about the K-Dramas, the soap operas of Korea; his mother is a big fan, so he knew them very well. And so we know we could put all the themes into something more entertaining and pop and Warhol-esque. We didn't want it to be ironic; we just wanted to use this particular form of poetry."

When asked if they had any plans to visit North Korea, a la former NBA star Dennis Rodman, singer Thomas Mars joked, "I'm not sure if we want to be like Dennis Rodman at this point. I think there would have to be a lot of plastic surgery involved."