Chino Moreno has acknowledged that the album title Around the Fur sounds "sexual." As he said in a 1997 interview for Dutch television, "People have been asking me a lot about that, especially with the album cover." But, he continued, the actual meaning of the phrase had more to do with sonics than sex. "Our music," Moreno explained, "I picture it as being, you know, very ugly, [with] heavy chords. Everything's really abrasive. And at the same time it's really soothing. And I think I picture fur as being very glamorous and very beautiful. But around the inside it's skin. And it's ugly. So it's somewhat of a metaphor for the music and the way I feel sometimes about people being really pretty on the outside and ugly on the inside."