What's My Age Again?

Infobox Single
Name = What's My Age Again?


Artist = Blink-182
from Album = Enema of the State
Released = November 16, 1999
Format = CD
Recorded = 1999
Genre = Pop punk
Length = 2:28
Label = MCA
Producer = Jerry Finn
Chart position =
* #2 (US Modern Rock)
* #17 (US Mainstream Rock)
* #19 (UK)
* #40 (US Pop 100)
* #58 (US)
Last single = "Josie (Everything's Gonna Be Fine)"
(1998)
This single = "What's My Age Again?"
(1999)
Next single = "All the Small Things"
(2000)

"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".quotation|"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." |Mark Hoppus [http://www.punkdisasters.com/the_music.php?side=blink_discography_enema_meanings]

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 #19.

It was used in VH1's I Love the New Millennium twice, once, when talking about Botox and twice, when talking about the show, "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?"

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.)

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".

External links

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVhnv_qLuRk Watch "What's My Age Again?": Version 1, Last Shot Uncensored on Youtube]