![]() You don't need subtlety to write an anthem even the ones that are subversively tongue-in-cheek are pretty obvious about it. "I think of it more, now, as almost a celebration," Hoppus says, "of hardships gone through and friends lost." It's a celebration that means a lot to a lot of people: Not an anthem in the usual sense of the word, more of a reminder. Now, though, after nearly a decade, the band is playing it again. A musician friend of theirs, Adam Goldstein - better known as DJ AM - had died from an overdose in early 2009, and Hoppus says he couldn't bring himself to sing it. There was a period of time when Blink-182 didn't play "Adam's Song" in concert. ![]() Then you feel bad for some of those emotions, because some of them are just really, really ugly. "You feel so many different emotions all at once. "It connected me with with Adam, and it also helped me feel everything," she says, explaining that surviving when Adam had not had been one of the hardest things to process. One day she was scrolling through her phone to find music for a run, and rediscovered "'Adam's Song." Then she had to deal with the suicide of a friend – who happened to be named Adam.īerlin says she'd learned in therapy that physical exertion could help calm her down. ![]() She's a wellness blogger in Brooklyn who has coped with suicide herself: She's suffered depression, OCD, an eating disorder, and attempted to take her own life. Personal dark times made "Adam's Song" an anthem of sorts for 23-year-old Brittney Berlin. And we're talking about a song that helped us both get through that." "I'm talking about my personal darkest times, and they're talking about their personal darkest time. "I feel like they are helping me share the difficult time I went through," he says. Not to his bandmates, friends, producer or manager, anyway - but he did feel his fans listening.
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