Jay committed suicide

Brandon OD'd and died

What the hell is going on

The cruelest dream, reality

 

One year after the song "Pretty Fly (For a White Guy)" and two years after the album Ixnay on the Hombre (complete with dormroom-caliber pot poster album art), the wacky alterna-pop yellers The Offspring suddenly released "The Kids Aren't Alright," a song that's more or less about how all different kinds of kids are totally doomed, including not one but TWO deaths in the same verse.

 

Needless to say, it's maybe a little heavy coming from the band that rose to fame with the chorus "Ohhhhwaaayooooo yeaaahhh yeahhh, ohhhhhhh yeahhhh, YEAHHH-ahh!"

 

Consider your thesis statement REBUTTED, The Who! Yes, by the band that famously yelled "My frieeeend has a girlfriend man he hates that bitch!"