Bent (song)

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"Bent"
"Bent" cover
Single by matchbox twenty
from the album mad season
Released July 4, 2000 (US)
Format CD Single / Audio Cassette
Recorded 1999
Genre Alternative Rock
Length 4:16
Label Atlantic
Producer(s) Matt Serletic
Chart positions
  • #79 (UK)
matchbox twenty singles chronology
"Back 2 Good"
(1998)
"Bent"
(2000)
"If You're Gone"
(2000)

"Bent" is the first single from mad season, the second album by the rock band matchbox twenty. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 22, 2000 and stayed there for one week.

The song had an interesting reception in the UK market, as "bent" is a slang term synonymous with "gay": the chorus of the song contains the line "Can you help me, I'm bent..."

Preceded by
"Everything You Want" by Vertical Horizon
Billboard Hot 100 number one single
July 22, 2000
Succeeded by
"It's Gonna Be Me" by 'N Sync