Songfacts®:

• The title "Succexy" combines the words "success" and "sexy," but the song is about neither of those things - not literally, anyway. Like the "Combat Baby" track that follows it on Metric's debut album, Old World Underground, Where Are You Now?, "Succexy" is about the United States' 2003 war with Afghanistan and the tensions with that were building with Iraq at that time.
  
  Detractors of those wars felt that corporate media was spinning events to put them in a positive light and to make the war appear sexy and easily winnable. Metric frontwoman Emily Haines gives voice to all those detractors with this song. She also calls out the war for being about money and oil with the line, "Faces to fill and cars to feed."
• Emily Haines wrote the song with her Metric co-founder James Shaw, the guitarist in the band. She explained to Better Propaganda: "I think the irony is twofold, in that we are, in many ways, an American band, because the two other members of the band are from Texas, and we all met in New York. And I'm in fact dual citizen, my parents are American, they're ex patriots. And James is also um, whatever with his green card and stuff... So this band was definitely formed in America. I would love to have a more outsider feeling, but I recognize that every dollar I spend in America goes towards things like the military. We feel complicit in the things that we're concerned about." >>

  Suggestion credit:
  Bertrand - Paris, France