Steve Aoki - Why Are We So Broken feat. Blink 182 [Ultra Music]

What this video is

Released March 14, 2019, the video sits at the apex of the EDM-rock crossover moment, in which superstar DJs actively courted rock and pop-punk credibility through high-profile collaborations. Steve Aoki's Neon Future III (November 2018, Ultra Music/Dim Mak) exemplifies the streaming-era strategy of genre hybridity, featuring collaborations spanning BTS, Louis Tomlinson, and blink-182 on the same album. The…

Why it matters

Represents a documented instance of EDM production absorbing pop-punk vocabulary — both sonically and visually — during peak-streaming genre hybridization (2018–2020). The track and video function as an artifact of how EDM artists used rock-legacy collaborators to expand audience reach while…

The director

Brandon Dermer is a Los Angeles-based writer, director, and producer. He created the Viceland series What Would Diplo Do? with James Van Der Beek, which was acquired by Spike Jonze; he directed and executive-produced its entire first season. His feature film…