lovehatetragedy Songwriting Credits by Papa Roach

lovehatetragedy is the second studio album by Papa Roach, released in May 2002 on DreamWorks Records and produced by Howard Benson, a more emotionally mature follow-up to Infest that demonstrated Shaddix's lyrical development while maintaining the rap-metal formula that had made the debut commercially successful. Shaddix wrote all lyrics; the album's 12 tracks include 'She Loves Me Not,' 'Time and Time Again,' 'Broken Home' (revisiting themes from Infest), and 'Born with Nothing, Die with Everything', tracks that addressed relationships and personal identity with more formal sophistication than the debut's more raw emotional directness. The album debuted at number five on the Billboard 200 with 137,000 first-week sales and has been certified platinum in the United States; 'She Loves Me Not' reached number one on the Mainstream Rock chart. lovehatetragedy is regarded as the commercial and artistic consolidation of the debut rather than a creative expansion, but its sales performance confirmed the band's commercial standing in the post-Infest landscape. lovehatetragedy's commercial consolidation of the Infest breakthrough confirmed that Papa Roach had established a durable commercial identity within the nu-metal genre, and its Mainstream Rock chart success demonstrated that the band's formula, rap verses, melodic choruses, confessional lyrics, could generate consistent radio performance across successive releases.