It's Sept. 3, and Blink-182 is about to tear through a bunch of snotty anthems and trademark masturbation jokes during its show at Salt Lake City's USANA Amphitheatre. Hours before the concert, bassist Mark Hoppus is sitting outside in a black T-shirt and gold sunglasses, drinking bottled water and talking about a few of the gut-wrenching tracks on the band's new album, "Neighborhoods."
"I couldn't," he says, "write a happy song for this record."
Everyone gets older. But when did Blink-182 -- the band that ran around naked in its most iconic music video (for "What's My Age Again?") and titled its 2001 fourth album "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket" -- get so damn serious?
"As people and performers, we definitely still have some stuff we need to work out, and we need to grow up with," says Hoppus, 39, via Skype. "[The album] is lyrically pretty heavy in a lot of places. Maybe that's where we are in our heads. We've gone through a lot of stuff over the past few years. We're in a better place because of it all-but we've gone through some shit."
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