When Was Whats My Name Again Released
"What's My Age Once again?" is a song by Glimmer-182. Information technology was the first unmarried released from the band's 3rd album Enema of the State. The song, written by bassist Marking Hoppus, carries a theme about a protagonist who, despite being an adult, all the same behaves like a prepubescent child.
Released in November 1999, "What's My Age Again?" became Blink-182's 2d hitting unmarried, setting a precedent for nigh of the band'south further career. The song peaked at #ii on the Modern Stone Tracks chart likewise as #19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks nautical chart. In October 2011, NME placed it at number 117 on its list "150 Best Tracks of the Past 15 Years".
The album version continues the guitar outro from the previous track, "Going Away to College", whereas the unmarried version cuts the fadeout and only opens with the song's trademark opening notes. The single version appears on the band's Greatest Hits.
Song information [ ]
Described by Hoppus as "the rails that launched [Enema of the Land]", the rails originally was titled "Peter Pan Complex" and went through a large corporeality of changes before information technology was finally completed. The characterization MCA forced the name change to which Hoppus was unhappy well-nigh. According to Hoppus, a few lines most the stop of the vocal were written the day the concluding cut of the song was completed: "No one should take themselves and so seriously, with many years alee to fall in line – why would you wish that on me?" The version heard on the demo for Enema of the State, recorded in tardily 1998, does not have these lines and has a different ending.
Whilst describing the song, guitarist Tom DeLonge has jokingly stated:
The vocal is virtually Mark [Hoppus], he's 28 and he still acts like a child... rolling effectually on the floor and shit.
Chart success and live history [ ]
The unmarried was released November 4, 1999, and reached number 2 on the U.S. Modern Rock Tracks nautical chart – the highest Blink-182 had gotten to the top, to that indicate. It was a major striking single, largely due to its music video, discussed in detail below. Also, the song peaked at number xix on the U.S. Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
The song has been a part of each live set since 1999. In several live performances, DeLonge has stated that the song is difficult to play, and he needs silence to concentrate, or some variation. This can exist heard on the band'due south official alive anthology The Mark, Tom and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!) and various singles released by the band. As with most songs performed by the band live, the vocal is upward-tempo and includes many jokes. In the version heard on The Mark, Tom, and Travis Show (The Enema Strikes Back!), Hoppus changes the song'south title to "Where'southward My Asian Friend?"
In pop civilization [ ]
"What'due south My Age Again?" tin be constitute on the U.S. edition of the compilation anthology Now That'south What I Call Music! 3 (1999). The song is available equally downloadable content for the Stone Band serial and Guitar Hero World Tour; it is part of the setlist of Rock Band Unplugged. When originally released, the song was performed on Saturday Night Live forth with "All the Small Things" on January 8, 2000 on the season 25 episode hosted by Jamie Foxx. In this performance, Marker Hoppus changed the line "Merely then I turned on the TV" to "Only and then I turned on NBC" in a nod to the channel that currently airs the long-running sketch show. The song is featured in the film Loser.
During the Honda Borough Tour, Marker Hoppus and Travis Barker with their band +44 covered the song along with "The Rock Show" and "Dammit". A choir version was also sung in the BBC drama All The Small Things in which one part of the lyrics was changed from "nobody likes yous when you're 23" to "nobody loves yous when y'all're 23". The song was recently featured in a trailer for the movie 17 Over again.
Music video [ ]
The music video (released in 1999) was directed past Marcos Siega and Brandon PeQueen and involves the band running through the streets naked, an act later parodied in the band's 2000 unmarried, "Man Overboard"; they run through television shows, outdoor sidewalks, and picnics; practise some dances, and attract a lot of attending. The band members were wearing thongs for the outdoor scenes but were naked for the indoor scenes. It was comically censored throughout the video, except at the end of the video, in which it was shown uncensored. Jim Rome is hosting The Concluding Give-and-take in the video. Porn star Janine Lindemulder is featured in the video. She also appears on the front cover of Enema of the State.
In 2001, singer and bassist Mark Hoppus stated that:
[the] scene with the butt shots, when nosotros were running down the street, were actually the simply existent nude scenes. We wore skin-colored Speedos for most of the scenes and when we were running, I realized how unattractive male person genitals are. Everything dangling and such. I didn't think I could be embarrassed easily, but I really was.
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