What's My Age Again?

It is the

lyrics from What's My Age Again, Blink-182.

They started making out and she took off my pants.

That's literally what happened.

We also do a round of your surname is confectionery.

We have Charlie Marlow and Vicky Hawksforth doing What's My Age Again.

It was jam-packed.

Here's how we started.

Radio 1-

... with Greg James.

And now it's What's My Age Again? Monday morning on the Radio 1 Breakfast Show.

Loads of new shows have started on Radio 1 the last couple of weeks.

Janine saw real quick that the boys in Blink were about to learn the hard truth about a skin flick production, and that's that being naked in front of scores of people in broad daylight, it might be funny or sexy when the finished edit hits screens, but while you're making the thing, being naked on set sucks.

Sure, you look all daring and cool running through the streets of Hollywood, filming your new video for your incredibly catchy song, What's My Age Again? But then once they call cut, you're just a schmuck in a skin-colored Speedo and nothing else on, standing on the side of West Third in LA while dudes in Jeep Cherokees drive by and give you the finger and launch homophobic slurs at you.

Janine, of course, thought it was hysterical.

So did the rest of America.

The video that is, not the homophobic cutdowns.

What's My Age Again? was a massive hit both as a video and a single, propelling Blink-182's newest album at the time, Enema of the State, to sell fifteen million copies.

Probably more by now.

Enema of the State also featured the song Aliens Exist with the lyrics, "Hey, Mom, there's something in the back room.

Feel like I've heard a lot of people say, "I walk alone to get the feeling right." It's I wore cologne to get the feeling right.

That one's Blink-182's What's My Age Again?.

All right, number eight, 2003.

Yo, what's going on with the world, mama? Yo, people livin' like they ain't got no mamas.

59.

Silly with What's My Age Again?

Just turned-

Silly

I, when I have carpool, there's, there's now a boy in the car, which is big time, [laughs] 'cause it was all girls.

But it's six people and they all fight to see who's gonna get dropped off first.

So I started doing games to be who's dropped off first to, like, make it a little more democratic, right? And so yesterday we did What's My Age Again?

Okay.

What the hell is ADD? My friends say I should act my age.

What's my age again? What's my age again? Then later on, on the drive home, I called her mom from a payphone.

I said, "I was the cops, and your husband's in jail." This day looks down on side of me, and that's about the time that bitch hung up on me.

Nobody likes you when you're twenty-three.

And I saw more of these weird paid phone calls.

What the hell is call ID? My friends say I should act my age.

What's my age again? What's my age again? [upbeat music playing] And that's about the time she walked away from me.

Nobody likes you when you're twenty-three, and you still act like you're in freshman year.

The singles were where everything exploded.

Dammit from Dude Ranch already showed what could work, but Enema’s releases, especially What’s My Age Again? and All The Small Things, had the radio-friendly pop hooks, but with enough punk attitude that radio stations would still play them on campus.

If you remember, those singles came out with MTV videos.

The visuals were low budget yet insanely memorable.

Like, what are we going to see next? You know, the play against San Francisco that Mahomes hits Conley in the corner of the end zone.

You're like, maybe that was your What's My Age Again song.

And then you hear Mahomes say this, like, we're going to go out and dominate like we used to, but we might look a little different.

And they've got Ken Walker, a running back that actually has a vision on the field.