Metal Fume Fever

An excerpt from a now deleted blog post from Juliana on her official site in 2008:

You could look at “Metal Fume Fever” as my modern, abbreviated, musical version of Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”. I wasn’t thinking of “The Jungle” when I wrote “Metal Fume Fever,” but listening to the song now, I can see a connection between it and the book.

Metal fume fever is the name of an actual illness. When I first heard the term, in passing, I thought, “I have to use that as a song title. It rocks!” I knew next to nothing about the illness, then. All I knew was that hearing those words conjured up nightmarish images in my head, and those images were what I wrote about. In protest. It’s a protest song.