The Offspring - The Kids Aren't Alright | Singer Reacts | 

A Gen Xer playing a song for millenials which Gen Z can relate too. For all you young whipper snappers reading this, yes the kids haven't been alright for a long time now.

This song definitely hits different at different stages of life. I was 13 when this came out and then it was just an awesome catchy song. 25 years later after life beats you down a little this song really makes you think about what was.

I think this song's message was important to a lot of people in my generation who grew up in a big middle class bubble. We have this optimism bias where we believe things are just going to work out. I was chronically depressed as a teen, and I still just assumed we were all going to thrive as adults. I'm lucky I'm still alive today. Some of the people I went to school with aren't. Some of them crashed and burned. Some of them made comebacks. Life is hard.

One of the most UNDERRATED punk bands of all time. Plain and simple. This song one of their masterpieces

"Gone Away" sticks out to me and is touching.Has to be done since it was remade and no one pays homage to the original. Others that are great are "Gotta get away" "Bad Habit" "Come out and play" " Self Esteem"

They have many great songs. I guess "Self Esteem" is the first one that pops into my mind. "Come Out and Play" is another one.

This is definitely my favorite song of theirs. Also, it has aged like fine wine with the advent of social media.

The Offspring is great. I got their Smash album in middle school and it didn't leave my discman for like 2 years. I can still throw that album on and sing just about every word. One of my favorite albums of all time.

"Bad Habit" and "Self Esteem" are two of the best older The Offspring songs IMO.

The offspring and sublime were both known for singing about the darkest subject matter layed over some of the most cheerful and energetic instrumentals. Also everclear, though they had a way of afirming your depression while the other had a way of lifting your spirits despite the heavy topic at hand

Hands down my favorite Offspring song. Brings back so many memories.

They have several songs that feel really upbeat - so long as you don't listen to the lyrics. "Come Out and Play", "Self Esteem", "Hit That", "Bad Habit"... Veritable party smash hits, but dark as hell.

This song is so good and actually very sad when you listen to the lyrics. And the video was so unique for the time it was made if you think this was made in the 90's. Their whole album Conspiracy of One was amazing.

The Offspring was in my top 5 in the 90s as I was going through highschool and I had all of their albums when CDs were a thing. They are also the most dynamic band I've seen live. I watched them at a music festival and they did not have a set list. They put up a live stream on the jumbo tron displays and we could see the fan requests in real time. They played their entire set based on fan input. They transitioned flawlessly from one song to the next. Simply incredible.

This and "Gone Away" are my favorite Offspring songs ever. Enjoy your journey and the kids still aren't alright...I'm glad you got into this thought...I never planned on living this long when I was in my 20's. But I knew I didn't the house full of kids then. Which half of my friends did and ended divorced. I wasn't going to do that to my kids. I recommend you explore the Deftones...The Chauffeur, Digital Bath, or even Bored. Back to their first album they recorded themselves. Madonna signed the band to her label Maverick personally.

Always amazed how supposed amateurs / professionals ? (Singer) can have absolutely no idea about such classic songs as this one… Not quite sure how on earth that’s even possible.

I adore The Offspring. Ive actially bumped into a few of them at various points in their careers, mostly during the late 90's and early-mid 00's Every one ive met has been wonderful. Also, Dexter Holland (the singer and rhythm guitarist) has a phd in molecular biology and did some research relating to hiv. Theyre a legitimate awesome band. Having said all this, you definitely need to check out their song "Bad Habit"

This song is about the kids on the lead singers street. A lot of his childhood friends lives didn't work out like they planned and fell into crime and addiction. The names in the were changed but the events are real.

I love the upbeat darkness to this song, always have. Gone away, gotta get away and bad habit are a few favs of mine. Self esteem and come out and play are good too etc .

Fun fact: Dexter Holland, their singer, has a Ph.D in molecular biology (as of 2017) and is also a certified flight instructor.

This song is why growing up when people at my HS mentioned my neighborhood it was was refered to as over by "The kids". There was multiple opiate addicts and dealers, 1 person was in the mental hospital twice for suicidal issues, my best friend ODd and died but was brought back to life before later dying in his sleep because his heart was damaged from that OD, one kid was living in the house his parents lost to the bank with no heat or water but he refused to leave with them so he showered at my house. And this was a nice fucking suburb not some shitty area. This shit is a legit reality to some.

Gone away, Self Esteem, Pretty fly,... so many great songs.

This song feels like living one's best life during a crippling existential crisis. It's very high-energy depression.

Solid choice for a first song. They have a big catalogue to check out. Gone Away, Bad Habit, Come out and Play, Hit That, Days go By, Self Esteem, Want you Bad, and Pretty Fly for a White Guy are all great songs.

When the song is over, you can feel the weight in her soul, the pressure in her chest. I felt the same, this song is weird, trick, gets you by surprise and hit you hard, a masterpiece. Super sad cuz is true and is getting worse and worse, the suicide numbers of young people is just insane world-wide, we're doing stuff so wrong, going so fast in the wrong direction, I wonder if one day this will stop.

The reference in movies is most likely from The Who "The Kids Are Alright "

This song came out in my teens. I bought their singles and albums. I never really thought too much about this song until I got older. It keeps getting more real as time passes. We were all gonna make it big and not be beat. Most of us didn't and we were beat. And that's just those of us who are still alive.

One of the best punk rock bands in history, different nuances in their music, their lyrics explore very diverse thematics, very entertaining and a unique sound, one of my favorite albums of all time is SMASH....remember having it heard in the neighborhood with friends riding bikes or skateboarding......other songs to check...COME OUT AND PLAY and DIRTY MAGIC

An upbeat song about a dark topic.

I heard this song years ago but last year it worked for me and was one of most listening songs in 2023

One of my favourite Bands. Self Esteem is (in my opinion) one of their best songs. Maybe xou will react to this masterpiece too :)

I always loved The Offspring, always been one of my favorite bands, and I gotta say that "The Kid's Aren't Alright" is one of my favorite songs, one that I deeply identify with, and that always makes me cry with memories from my life and close friend's lifes

This album was released in 98 & this video debuted in 99 so that cinematography was groundbreaking for it's time

One of my all time favorite bands.

I love your reactions, I love when you get excited, you laugh, you are beautiful, greetings from the Canary Islands, Spain ☺️

This is on The Faculty soundtrack so if you've seen the movie you've heard it. It's funny watching the video now and how cool we thought the effects were. My buddy even showed his Mom. We were all into art and computers and were just blown away with this video, Matrix was out at the same time so this tech was new. But this is easily still one of my favorite songs of all time. Just perfect.

"Dirty Magic" is a song by The Offspring that has a very mysterious dark feeling.

Ray is a beauty, isn't she? Check Gone Away next

If you don't know, they play themselves in the 90s horror cult classic Idle Hands as the band that performs at the Halloween school dance. Also, Tom DeLonge made a tiny one-word cameo in Idle Hands as the drive thru employee that Anton (Devon Sawa) takes over his shift.

If I remember right he wrote this song after he went back home and saw what happened to a lot of people he knew and went to school with in his hometown

This hit me right in the feels for some reason

This song was famous when the internet started becoming accessible because of stick figure death theater. There was an animation on there that was famous and this song played in the background lol.

I was a teen when this came out. Loved it then. However, after living life and seeing some of my friends and classmates have the same fates as those in the song, it definitely hits different at 41 than it did at 16/17.

I always thought it sounded so much like the intro from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. And i love both

I always loved The Offspring! This song is pretty relatable to me. I've been through some hardships in my life. I was listening to this when i was 15yrs. old. The album "Americana" was my favorite from The Offspring! Going through this hardships, music was always there for me. I got that from my Mom. For me, it was mostly my health though, having leukemia, 7 chemotherapy's, radiations, transfusions of course, and after it didn't work they told me i needed a stemcel transplantation. After 2yrs. of the transplantation, my body started to reject the stemcel's and i now live with something called Graft Versus Host disease (GVHD.) I ended up in a wheelchair and never came out of it again. My whole house was adapted for my wheelchair. But then, in 2018. My Mom passed away from cervical cancer stage 4. I couldn't stay in the house that was adapted for my wheelchair (my landlord kicked me out because i was alone and they didn't want me in the house anymore.) It's a pretty long story but i ended up in a small apartment paying triple the price of what i paid before for rent. I also got CV-19 in 2021. I was induced in a coma for that and i woke up after 2 weeks. I finally slept well for once though. 😅 While in a coma they also saw a "lump" on one of my valve's heart and last year in June i got open-heart surgery for that. They removed my valve connecting to my aorta and replaced it with a new one. Because of all the medication i take, i also developed diabetic type 2. Well, i also needed a new hip and shoulder replacement and they extracted all of my teeth because they were in a bad condition because of the chemo & cortisone they i had. In any way, losing my Mom was the worst thing i had to deal with to be honest. It's been 5yrs. but i still miss her every day. She was there for. All the time. Never missed a day! Sorry for the rambling. But for those who did read this crazy A4. Thanks i guess. 😀

The Offspring have been a staple on my local 'alternative music' radio station for decades. (as a side note, for a long time I wondered if it was against their rules to go an hour without playing Nirvana....) I consider them something of a guilty pleasure.

This is my teenage years in a nutshell. Damn, I still love this song so much!

You have to do "Gone Away" by them, the next time you do The Offspring. It tugs at the heartstrings. But they have so many classics, that you can't go wrong with either of them.

Self esteem is a great song

The Offspring are great! They have a great mix of dark and serious topics along with humourous songs thrown in for good measure

You 💯 understand this song and got it right. It's relatable to some of us and a learning experience for others. When they sang "Brandon OD and died", that hit me real hard. First I lost a friend named Brandon but was to suicide. And I also lost my lifelong best friend to an overdose in 2015. It's real, it's hard. Best we can do is be there for each other and check in on your loved ones.

I grew up in a high school full of jenny and Branden and jay...they dropped like flies...it's haunting

Hi Ray, this thumbnail is hilarioous, thanks for the laughs and cheers my good lady, keep on rocking, you are awesome!!!

Self-Esteem by the Offspring HAS to be the next one. But do not fret, they have several other hits as well. And i would be surprised if you also hadn't heard all of them at some point in life. Likely from movies. The ol' teens movie genre is where they tend to be at. Like "Not another teen movie" as an example. Stuff like that.

One of my favorite bands. Not a bad song in their entire library IMO. If you'd like to listen to another dark song give "Gone Away" a listen. Then listen to the live version with Emily Armstrong from Dead Sara.

Kings of SoCal pop punk. F'n LOVE em

Great reaction to the great band, thank you:) I've been a huuuge Offspring fan since I was nine, and up until my 20th, been on a number of their shows, even had an opportunity to join them in meet-and-greet after the show. They have a ton of amazing songs, musically and lyrically. All the lyrics btw is written by the vocalist, Bryan Keith 'Dexter' Holland:) My suggestions would be 'She's got issues' (from the same album), Gone Away, I Choose, Dirty Magic :)

Yeah it's funny watching people's lives unfold as you say. I recall one of my high school friends was really cool and very smart. Last I heard he's now working in construction. Not at all what I expected.

Nya valew por reagir a minha musica favorita do offspring, amei seu React*---*

!This song is about growing up in the 80's in So Cal!

Love offspring. They always stuck to real life and real issues. Remember smash came out when I was in junior high. Older I get, more and more. Their song list sticks in my head. I know that guy. I feel this song for that encounter in my life.

I'm going to second what a lot of people are saying here and say that you should check out "Self Esteem" and "Gone Away". They have a lot of good tracks but those are two I'd think you'd be interested in.

I know people's circumstances vary and it's not equal but I have these ideas of grandeur in that everyone in my school was equal (in my kid brain: same uniform, same class etc, we all seemed the same). In reality is different and since I left school 13 years ago, I've seen people I went to school with, marry, divorce, have kids, live in luxury, travel vastly, emmigrate, die in overdoses, die in accidents. It's wild the paths we take.

The Offspring are underrated.

wow this song takes me back

The title references the film The Kids Are Alright, which was a documentary about the band The Who.

Dexter wrote this song because, he went back to his home town where he was born and saw that it wasnt as pretty how it was when he was a kid, people get older and as a kid we had dreams what we wanted to be in the future till reality hits us and end up not what we wanted as a kid.

I remember when this song came out i was in 10th grade and it was a great song then but the older i get thinking bake god it hits hard thinking about people i grew up with and seeing how they ended up

Offspring are so damn good. You have to check out Want You Bad, Hit That, You're Gonna Go Far Kid, Self Esteem, Come Out and Play gah just so many phenomenal songs. Im 39 and its crazy how many of my highschool friends have died, addiction, jail, and just straight up "peaked in highschool" mentality. And its not even all life choices so many from accidents, cancer, DV, its a mess and life is fucking hard.

There are people who are weak in the head, and those who are more structured, and obviously need professional help, it is worth highlighting that friends, and I mean truly friends, play a fundamental role in a person's life... have a good year👌

Yup my high school years. I was no ok. So true been thought so much

I love the Americana album. This is one of my favorite songs by the offspring.

Offspring joined the punk MTV movement! They’re a good band that did not need MTV or these videos

I don't think I've ever paid attention to the lyrics. Watching this now and it really hits surprisingly hard, damn.

So true!!

They ruled the airwaves for a good long period🤘❤️

I lov u, Ray.

my favourite band as a teenager

Youre gonna go far kid is super dope

You should take a look at "You're gonna go far kid," "Half-Truism," "Hammerhead," "Stuff is messed up" (the uncensored version), "Slim pickens always does the right thing," "Come out and play" is a CLASSIC, "Me and my old lady," "all i want," "change the world," "walla walla," "spare me the details," "fix you," "rise and fall" and if i don't stop here i'll be listing things for hours and yeah. honestly, there's not a bad song from them. They all hit differently, though. And they are all intelligent as hell.

omg i would listen to this song in late 90's in high school before all my track meets to get me pumped up

In the time os this video I've listened a whole Offspring's album :D

Hard to believe that this song is over 25 years old... I mean, I didn't listen to bands from the 70's when I was growing up in the 90's. We had to pay to get music and I wasn't going to shell out ca$h for a band I had never heard of... Of course, over time I got into Black Sabbath, Rush, Kiss, Aerosmith, ZZ Top, etc.

Awesome song

Good morning Rachel, the offspring was peak early 2000’s!

I mostly listened to Smash from which "Self Esteem" is probably the most popular song, but my two personal favorites are "Not The One" and "Genocide".

the opening to this song always reminds me of the opening theme to Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

Emotion Sickness by Silverchair is an AMAZING song out of Australia. It certainly isn't new by any means but hot damn is it good, pretty unique too.

I feel that song so badly.

Similar sound is “Rise against” particularly the song “Savior”

I still listen to the album "Americana" to this day, and this for me would be around high school when I got into the band. Back then I was what could be called a "pot head" even well through my first job out of high school (shrugs) My life was a lot different back then, my Bi-polar hadn't really taken "front and center" at that point in time. (late 02 when I graduated)

Great reaction. Most people don't know that Dexter Holland has a phd in molecular biology. So you could say he has a backup plan

this is my favorite offspring song

the offspring is an amazing band "want you bad" this would be my top recommendation for one that's a bit more light hearted

Their albums Smash & Ignition both deserve full listens. Peace/JT

wow i am so old^^ was 16 when the song came out.

The entire ignition album is 🔥 📛

some of us were adults at earlier stages of our live than most.

My friend said once, “the reason you like *this* offspring song is because it sounds like the intro to Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (my middle school celebrity crush)….and i was like, damn 😂

Their older stuff was really good.... "Self Esteem", "Come out and play", "Smash". Smash and Ixnay on the Hombre were really good albums. They got a bit "pop" later on.