blink-182 - What's My Age Again？

What this video is

Released April 1999 as the lead single from Enema of the State, 'What's My Age Again?' arrived at the precise moment when pop-punk was being absorbed into mainstream American youth culture via TRL-era MTV. The video's nudity-as-concept stunt crystallized blink-182's brand of juvenile transgression and converted underground skate-punk fandom into mass-market celebrity. Originally titled 'Peter Pan Complex,' the song…

Why it matters

A foundational document of mainstream pop-punk visual language: the video established the single-absurdist-concept format (band performs one escalating stunt throughout) that became a template for the genre. Its MTV heavy rotation bridged SoCal skate-punk underground to global mainstream…

The director

Marcos Siega (b. June 8, 1969, Queens, New York City) is a film, television, commercial, and music video director. A founding member of NYC punk band Bad Trip in the late 1980s, he transitioned to music video directing in the 1990s, working with Blink-182,…