Songfacts®:

• This high energy guitar-and-drum-centered track finds Avril Lavigne returning to the pop-punk sound that made her famous. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker's DTA Records released the song on November 10, 2021 as her first single after signing to the label.
• Lyrically, this is a takedown of a former lover who failed to treat Lavigne properly. The sassy pop-punk queen rages at the no-good dude for being a liar and a playa. She assures him he'll regret crossing her for the rest of his life, and kicks him out for good.
  
  I gave you one chance, you don't get it twice
  Hey you, and we'll be together never, so baby, you can bite me
  
  The cheating guy is getting his romantic karma. Speaking to Kevan Kenney on Alt 92.3, Lavigne said the song "is about someone who wants a second chance but they f----d up so royally they're kinda not really worth your time, and they realize after the fact that you had a really good thing going on, and you're sort of the one that got away."
• Lavigne collected an impressive cast of songwriters and producers to help her write the track. They are:
  
  EDM/pop producer Marshmello.
  
  Los Angeles producer Omer Fedi. (24kGoldn's "Mood," The Kid Laroi's "Without You" and "Stay," and Lil Nas X's "MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)."
  
  Pop-punk producer John Feldmann, who is a frequent collaborator with 5 Seconds of Summer, blink-182 and Panic! at the Disco.
  
  Machine Gun Kelly's writing partner Mod Sun. Lavigne is a big fan of the Minnesota rapper/singer and recorded a duet with him, "Flames," which Mod Sun dropped in January 2021.
  
  John Feldmann and Mod Sun also produced the song with Travis Barker.
• Omer Fedi plays guitar on the track and Travis Barker contributes his signature, ear-blasting drums.
• Hannah Lux Davis directed the video. It finds Lavigne and Barker terrorizing the ex that did the singer wrong, helped by some tutu-wearing tough guys.
• Avril Lavigne had two failed marriages: first with Sum 41's Deryck Whibley, then with Nickelback's Chad Kroeger. But the singer was blissed-out with her boyfriend, Mod Sun, when she penned this song and felt it was time to rock again. "I'm in a happy place in my life, and it's all like it's fun and it reflects that," Lavigne told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "I've been through the ringer so like yeah I'm writing about it again... and I feel like 'Bite Me' is kind of about a guy wanting a second chance but not giving him the time of day because, you know, you did before... It didn't work out, and having that self-respect."