
Dammit (Growing Up)
Hoppus turned bumping into an ex into four chords, a Trombino production, and pop punk's great shrug at adulthood.

Hoppus turned bumping into an ex into four chords, a Trombino production, and pop punk's great shrug at adulthood.

Palm-muted C major at 150 beats a minute, Roger Manning's synth on top, and a boy-band parody video.

Hoppus was twenty-six and picked twenty-three purely for the rhyme; MCA made them drop the title "Peter Pan Complex".

Cello, upright bass and brushed drums, roughly seventy acoustic tracks, and Hoppus and DeLonge trading verses about missing someone.

DeLonge wrote it after the band's manager complained the album had no feel-good song; a SeaWorld date supplied the rest.

A piano bridge from session player Roger Joseph Manning Jr. lifts the band's most serious song out of its despair.

DeLonge's parents divorced when he was eighteen; Finn produced, and the wrecking-ball video was reshot after September 11.

Hoppus and DeLonge wrote in separate rooms, choruses and verses, and Barker's beat locked them together in a day.