"When the record’s coming together, you try to seriously think of a title for ten minutes and then everyone in the band jokes around for the next two hours with ideas like
Offspring Bloody Offspring," Offspring frontman
Dexter Holland told
Spinner. "One day, somebody suggested
Chinese Democracy and we couldn’t stop laughing about it."
The Offspring soon put out a press release announcing
Chinese Democracy as the title for their seventh studio album. "You snooze you lose," Holland said in a
statement shared by MTV. "Axl ripped off my braids, so I ripped off his album title."