 Gilmore suggested that the Madden brothers needed to escape from the Los Angeles scene to focus on the songs, and recommended they go to Vancouver, Canada.Vancouver's picturesque environment was an inspiration, and over the course of seven weeks they wrote a new batch of songs.The group were anxious and scared about impressing Gilmore; after they had written "Victims of Love", Joel Madden said they "felt like 'OK, now we're definitely on to something new and different'".