- My mom loves this song.
- I didn't know this song was blink-182.
I just didn't pay attention to the voice.
♪ (punk rock intro) ♪
(blink-182, "All The Small Things")
- Who is this?
- Oh, blink-182.
- This is blink-182.
- I've seen some of their music videos my dad shows them to me a lot.
- ♪ All the small things ♪
- Oh, I know this!
(Jordan hums along) - ♪ True care, truth brings ♪
♪ I'll take one lift ♪
- It's so angsty.
- This brings out the youth in me so much.
- ♪ Always, I know ♪ - This is like early punk rock.
- ♪ You'll be at my show ♪ ♪ Watching, waiting ♪
- My mom loves this song.
- My mom's actually on their mailing list.
For like concerts. (laughs)
- (sings along) ♪ Say it ain't so ♪ ♪ I will not go ♪
♪ Turn the lights off ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Carry me home ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Na-na, na-na-na ♪ ♪ Na-na, na-na, na-na-na-na-na ♪
Those outfits, wait, what were those outfits?
I didn't even take a second to appreciate the all-white look
they were going for.
- I can't think of the name,
but I've definitely heard that many times before.
- It's always been around. I don't really know how I know it.
(blink-182, "What's My Age Again?") - Oh.
This is the video my dad showed me.
- They like to be shirtless. (laughs)
Oh wow, no, they're just bare naked.
- What's with them and not having any clothes on?
- Oh my God, how did they film this?
- ♪ And she took off my pants ♪ ♪ But then I turned on the TV ♪
- I love the drums.
- (sings along) ♪ Walked away from me ♪
♪ Nobody likes you when you're 23 ♪
- ♪ And I'm still more amused ♪ ♪ By TV shows ♪
♪ What the hell is ADD ♪ ♪ My friends say I should act my age ♪
♪ What's my age again ♪ ♪ What's my age again ♪
- This is a really catchy song.
- I like their songs a lot.
They have a good beat, and they're so catchy.
- Oh my God.
- (laughs) Then run back, okay, that's nice.
- What are they doing?
- Look, she's the album cover.
- Oh my gosh, no not the child!
- Bro, that poor kid!
- ♪ And that's about the time ♪ ♪ She walked away from me ♪
- I feel like they defined a generation.
- I bet you people back in the day was like "oh my God,
this band, they're so edgy! They're so over the top!"
- ♪ My friends say ♪ ♪ I should act my age ♪
♪ What's my age again ♪ - Good song.
- It's so angsty, like oh my God, what's my age?
- This is iconic.
The videos, the lyrics, the beat, their presence, just iconic.
- ♪ Hello there ♪ ♪ The angel from my nightmare ♪
- Why does this low key look like a horror movie from the 1900s?
- Those aesthetics though.
- ♪ We can live and Jack and Sally ♪
- Love these shots. (laughs)
- (sings along) ♪ Where are you ♪
♪ I'm so sorry ♪
- (laughs) I'm so sorry! Oh my God, it's so angsty.
- ♪ And always ♪ ♪ This sick strange darkness ♪
♪ Comes creeping on ♪ - You can really tell
they show their versitility in this.
- ♪ You come home ♪ ♪ And stop this pain tonight ♪
- Oh, ew spiders! - ♪ Stop this pain tonight ♪
♪ Don't waste your time on me ♪
- (sings along) ♪ Already ♪ ♪ The voice inside my head ♪
- Okay, I've heard this. I've heard this chorus before.
- ♪ You're already the voice ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Inside my head ♪
- ♪ I miss you ♪
- That definitely had like a Panic at the Disco kind of vibe.
- This one was a bit more slow. I mean, it's a pretty good song.
It has a nice beat.
- This isn't music that I would listen to now.
But I mean, like, if I had a reminiscent moment
or if I was like in my feelings, like I know I could listen to them.
- (FBE) So those songs were the three
that charted the highest on the Billboard charts
from the band blink-182.
- I mean, they're iconic songs.
Like I feel like, you have to know those songs.
- You just know who it is.
Like I feel like, when I was younger, like in middle school,
I would listen to the rock radio station
and like "okay, now we're playing a song from blink-182."
- I've definitely heard their songs somewhere,
but like, I'd never specifically listened to them.
- (FBE) So before we talk more about them,
we have a medley of some of their other music
to show you now.
But of course, we don't have time to show you
everything from their catalog.
- Of course, yeah.
- You mean we don't have six hours right now?
(blink-182, "Dammit")
- Okay, I've heard this one.
This one's like really popular, right?
I mean it must be if I've heard it. (laughs)
- Yeah I [bleep] with this one a lot.
- ♪ It's alright to tell me ♪
- Just a bop, dude.
- I wish I grew up in this era so that like at parties and stuff
you could just rock out to this.
- ♪ And it's happened once again ♪ ♪ I'll turn to a friend ♪
♪ Someone that understands ♪
- I just feel like they're so emblematic
of like early 2000s, like 1990s, just like music of that era.
- I didn't know this song was blink-182.
I just didn't pay attention to the voice.
- ♪ In the car, I just can't wait ♪
- To be honest, some of this music sounds like it's the same.
Like they do a lot of the same, or like they do similar sounding riffs
with the guitar.
- ♪ Let's go, don't wait ♪ ♪ This night's almost over ♪
♪ Honest ♪ - (sings along) ♪ Let's make ♪
♪ This night last forever ♪ ♪ And ever and ever ♪
Okay, that's hot, yeah. (laughs) Great.
- ♪ She's getting kicked outta school ♪ ♪ 'Cause she's failing ♪
♪ I'm kind of nervous 'cause I think ♪ ♪ All her friends hate me ♪
♪ She's the one ♪ ♪ She'll always be there ♪
♪ She took my hand ♪ - This is so dope.
- ♪ I fell in love with the girl ♪ - So angsty!
- ♪ She said what ♪ - But not that angsty.
It's just like fun. Like very rebellious,
and I love it.
- Are they like getting homeless people
and cleaning them up and stuff?
That's pretty cool.
- Is this like newer? - ♪ Do you want me here ♪
- I'm like yeah, there's no like, grainy filter over the music video.
- ♪ And all these demons ♪ ♪ They keep me up all night ♪
- They have their band set up, of like music stuff
in the most weird places, like on the street, in a kitchen.
- ♪ They keep me up all night ♪
- How recent was this?
Like did they just make a comeback? What's going on?
- ♪ And it's a long way back from 17 ♪ ♪ The whispers turn into a scream ♪
- This just makes me wanna
go back to school and hate every class again.
- ♪ Save your breath ♪
- I feel like if people were more open to listening to their music,
they would love it.
- I'm liking this song a lot.
- When I think of blink-182,
I think of like the first three songs you played.
But now hearing the entire thing,
I'm like there's so many different layers to them.
- ♪ I think I met her at the minute ♪ ♪ That the rhythm was set down ♪
♪ I said I'm sorry ♪ ♪ I'm a bit of a letdown ♪
- I don't know what it is about it, but it's just good music.
- You can tell what their old songs were,
and you can, like they still have their like, signature sound-ish,
but it's like elevated in a way.
- ♪ And we'll go over ♪ ♪ And over and over ♪
- That was so fun.
I felt like I was at a party.
- It's such a vibe. It gives me such like a rebellious,
like youth, it just makes me wanna like never wanna grow up ever.
- I am surprised that they are this good.
I haven't really sat, listened to their songs,
and gave them the time of day.
Glad you're showing them to me now.
- (FBE) So blink-182 released their first album
all the way back in 1995. - Wow.
- (FBE) And they're still making music today.
- I did not realize it was that long ago.
I thought like maybe 1999, but that's like a solid six years
before I was born.
- (FBE) Meaning that not one person in this episode was alive
when they first started making music.
- No, what the heck?
Oh, we're babies. My mom was in high school!
(gasps) In '95, I think she was like just grad,
she was, oh my gosh, I think my mom was like my age.
- (FBE) So yet still a lot of you know the music and know the band.
So why do you think that is?
- Not sure, it just plays on the radio and you just listen to it
and you know that it's iconic.
- A lot of the songs that are like their classic songs.
You know, like All The Small Things,
that's constantly played on the radio.
Like if you listen to alternative stations
or even if you're just on Spotify and you put on like
an alternative rock playlist that's generated,
like that's just there. That's like a staple song.
- My mom was a huge fan of blink-182,
so she played a lot of their songs around me when I was growing up.
Their music is like music that can still be passed on
and can still be relevant today. - They are passed from my parents.
Like my dad, when I'm in his car and stuff like that,
we're like "oh hey buddy, listen to this."
And I'm like "oh, okay."
Especially like in the '90s and stuff,
music like that kinda took the world by storm.
So it kinda, music like that kinda just lives on longer and longer.
So even though you weren't born or alive during the time
that like the music, it kinda changed the music,
you still listen to it a lot.
- (FBE) So after listening to some of their music today,
what genre would you consider it?
- I think I'd say rock. - Pop, rock, I guess.
- Rock, like. (laughs) Wouldn't this be like considered now
like indie rock? - Maybe alternative,
but I mean, there's like different,
there's so many different types of rock music.
- They do sound punk-ish. - I'd say punk rock,
something like that, definitely. - Punk rock, 'cause it does feel like,
it's a punk-ish.
I want people to hit me, and I wanna hit people back,
like in a mosh pit, that'd be fun with this music.
- (FBE) Many people consider them to be kind of like a pop-punk band.
- Oh. - (FBE) Alternative rock.
- I was about to say like pop-rock or pop-punk,
but then I was worried that people'd get mad at me for saying pop.
- (FBE) The New York Times even said that no punk band of the '90s
has been more influential than blink-182.
- Oh wow. - Wow.
If you have an article written by the New York Times,
that's how you know you frickin' made it.
- I would agree.
There were some like top dog like '90s bands,
but blink-182 is such a staple, it's hard to beat.
- (FBE) Panic at the Disco even started off covering blink songs
while artists like Five Seconds of Summer
and Avril Lavigne list them as influences.
- Wow, so they're like gods in the industry in a way then,
'cause they brought about many people that are admired
as gods right now, so they're like the gods' gods.
- Halsey, like she named a song after the band,
so even like pop singers like her are influenced,
and other rock musicians are too. - They walked,
so musicians today could run.
They really influenced a lot of the culture and media today.
- You can like so see it too.
I was watching the music videos and I was like "this is like
Five Seconds of Summer's like old music videos,"
and still now, like, they, oh my God!
Now it's all coming together.
- (FBE) Finally, as we mentioned, blink-182 is still around
and making new music today and are even on tour right now.
- Yeah, my friends saw them in San Diego last week.
- With Lil Wayne, that's lit. That's such a interesting collision,
like wow, who'd have thought? (laughs)
- (FBE) So do you think people your age would go
and check them out, or are teens of today
not as interested in blink-182?
- I mean, it's just me, but I myself am pretty interested right now.
But as for people these days, they're listening to
Ed Sheeran and stuff like that.
- It really depends on the person,
'cause some people are just like "Oh my gosh, I'm only gonna listen
to Ariana Grande, 'cause that's my stan,"
or Billie Eilish or whoever, but some people,
they're willing to explore different musical genres.
- We're getting less interested in that kind of music,
but I still think there's a handful of us
that appreciate the band.
- I'm pretty sure there will be teens at this concert.
Like, I'm pretty sure parents are dragging their kids
to this concert, like the kids are dragging their parents
to the concert.
- We'd definitely go and check them out
because I knew a lot of people who went to the concert,
and also just everyone knows them, everyone loves them,
and they don't feel old, like they somehow managed
to escape that thing where you hear that they're touring,
and you go "they're still alive?"
They're really relevant today, because not only are they
releasing music that's still becoming popular
and topping all these charts,
but they've also inspired so many artists,
and artists you may have never even thought
they would have inspired,
that would have never even crossed your mind.
- Thanks for rocking with us on this episode of Teens React.
Shout out to Dillon Weed.
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- What band should we react to next?
Let us know down in the comments.
- Thanks for watching, bye!
- Hey everyone, Lauren, producer here at FBE.
Thank you so much for watching this episode of Teens React.
If you wanna check out more of blink-182,
we have links down in the description and right over there.
Bye everyone!