She's_Got_Issues

She's Got Issues

She's Got Issues

1999 single by The Offspring


"She's Got Issues" is a song by The Offspring. It is the seventh track on their fifth studio album Americana (1998) and was released as the fourth and final single on October 19, 1999. The song also appears as the third track on the EP A Piece of Americana (1998).

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The lyrics to the song have a narrator calling out on his angsty, victim-playing girlfriend.[3][4] As singer Dexter Holland described, "Today everyone has issues and no one takes responsibility because their mother or their father drank too much or whatever".[5] The title is inspired by the "typical psychobabble" present in talk shows.[6]

Music video

The video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and animated by Wayne White,[7] shows a usual workday of a young adult woman (played by a pre-fame Zooey Deschanel), and the things in her everyday life that she finds disturbing or annoying, are enhanced by grotesque cartoons, which represent her imagination.[8] On the Making the Video episode for "She's Got Issues", Dexter Holland described it as an "anti-video" for its highly conceptual nature.[9]

The woman is first shown sleeping in her bed. She wakes up and fries two eggs for breakfast. After watching TV while eating, she changes into her clothes and goes downstairs. She then takes the subway to work at a photo printing shop. She gets caught by her boss stealing a photo and is fired after an argument. She consults her psychiatrist about her issues. She then runs back to her apartment and is welcomed by the band playing there.

DVD appearances

The music video also appears on their video collection Complete Music Video Collection, which was released in 2005.

Track listing

Version 1

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Personnel

The Offspring

Charts

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References

  1. "She's Got Issues". Rate Your Music. Retrieved July 17, 2013.
  2. "White Punks on Dope". Spin. March 1999.
  3. "Offspring Rock Back To Basics". MTV. Retrieved March 8, 2018.
  4. "Categorize Artist Wayne White? Don't Even Try". PBS. Retrieved January 19, 2015.

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