What's My Age Again?
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| Single by Blink-182 from the album Enema of the State |
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| Released | November 16, 1999 | ||||
| Format | CD | ||||
| Recorded | 1999 | ||||
| Genre | Punk rock | ||||
| Length | 2:28 | ||||
| Label | MCA | ||||
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"What's My Age Again?" is the first single released from Blink-182's third album Enema of the State. Originally released in 1999, it was re-released following the success of "All the Small Things".
Mark Hoppus said of the title, "The song originally was called "Peter Pan Complex" (see Peter Pan syndrome) but the label didn’t want us to call it that because they thought people wouldn’t get it. It was one of those things that, later, we got pissed about because we felt we should have left it called that." [1]
Despite being a fixture in almost all of Blink-182's live show setlists, Tom Delonge, (lead guitarist) was known to comment on the difficulty of the song to the audience before it was played, asking that they "Shut up, because this next song is really hard to play,"
The song is usually overshadowed by the band's next single ("All the Small Things"), however the song showed the band reach their peak position on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at #17.
[edit] Track listing
CD # 1
- "What's My Age Again?"
- "Pathetic" (Live in L.A.)
- "Untitled" (Live in L.A.)
CD # 2
- "What's My Age Again?"
- "Josie" (Live in L.A.)
- "Aliens Exist (Live in L.A.)
[edit] Music video
The music video (released in 1999) was directed by Marcos Siega and Brandon PeQueen and involves the band running through the streets naked, an act later parodied in the band's 2000 single, "Man Overboard"; they run through television shows, do some dances, and attract a lot of attention. 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. Porn star Janine Lindemulder is featured in the video. She also appears on the front cover of Enema of the State.
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