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"Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" is a song by American rock band the Offspring. It is the fourth track from the band's fifth studio album, Americana (1998), and was released as its first single in November 1998.
[13] While most songs are the regular punk rock the band popularized, others such as the Latino-influenced "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" and the psychedelic "Pay the Man" add variety, "so that there's enough in there so people don't get bored". [14] "
The band rode this wave of success through to 1998’s Americana, which featured the inescapable “Pretty Fly (For A White Guy)” with an ad-lib intro responsible for teaching a generation how ...
The Offspring Collection is a box set [2] containing four discs from American punk rock band the Offspring. The set contains four CD singles ("Come Out and Play," "Self Esteem," "Gotta Get Away," and "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)"). In addition, the box set also includes 2 buttons; one reading "Pretty Fly", and the other reading "For A White Guy".
It received polarized reviews from fans and critics, with negative reviewers panning the lyrics and music, while the positive reviews noted its intended satire and compared it to The Offspring's earlier song "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)". The Offspring commented that they wanted to write a light-hearted joke song as a relief from dealing with ...
(That same count-in was sampled by The Offspring at the beginning of their 1998 song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)". [ 9 ] ) As the song's melody begins, Elliott speaks the lines, "All right/I've got something to say/It's better to burn out/Than to fade away"; the second two lines are a reference to Neil Young 's song " My My, Hey Hey (Out of ...
Pete Parada, the drummer for the Offspring, has found out the hard way that some businesses — and even bands — are drawing a hard line on requiring vaccinations to come back to work. He posted ...
"Why Don't You Get a Job?" is a song by American rock band the Offspring. The song is the 11th track on the Offspring's fifth studio album, Americana (1998), and was released as its second single on March 15, 1999. The song also appears as the eighth track on the band's Greatest Hits album (2005). The single peaked within the top 10 of the ...