 The album, which has a darker overtone than Midtown's earlier work, is about the "realization that the reality that I knew was fake ... [and that] you're always going to be okay, there's always going to be something that gets you through in your new reality".Discussing the album title, the band said; "Forget what you know about the world; forget what you know about yourself.Forget what you think you know about Project Mayhem.