Song Title Inspiration
The band found inspiration for the title of the song in the dialogue from the Trey Parker and Matt Stone film Team America: World Police. In that film, the psychological term malignant narcissism is used in reference to Islamic terrorists. The only voice heard is from an audio sample taken from the film, appearing at 1:08 in the song featuring a female voice saying, "Usually a case of malignant narcissism brought on during childhood".
| “ | We’re all big Matt Stone fans, and South Park fans, so we were all fans of that movie, and Neil is friends with Matt Stone. And Matt and Trey Parker were both Rush fans at some point. So they keep in contact. And said, ‘Look, we want to do this song called "Malignant Narcissism", and was thrilled. He said, ‘Great!’ | ” |
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—Rush bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee |
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