She's Got Issues

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“She's Got Issues”
Single by The Offspring from the album Americana
Released	October 19, 1999
Format	CD
Recorded	1998
Genre	Pop punk
Length	03:48
Label	Columbia
Writer(s)	Dexter Holland
Producer	Dave Jerden
The Offspring singles chronology
"The Kids Aren't Alright" (1999) "She's Got Issues" (1999) "Original Prankster" (2000)

"She's Got Issues" was the fourth single from The Offspring's album Americana.

The song concerns the narrator's girlfriend, acted by Zooey Deschanel in the music video, a woman who is constantly complaining about her psychological problems. The narrator has swiftly become tired of them, and is convinced she could get over her issues if she actually tried.

This song fits into the album's theme of unpleasant realities of American life, in this case skewering the "victim complex" - the tendencies of Americans to blame all of their difficulties and problems on either other people or, as in this case, outside forces such as mental illness.

By popular urban myth, it is said that this song was based on the life of Whitney Houston.^{[citation needed]}

Despite being released as a single, the song performed poorly in the charts^{[citation needed]} and failed to make it onto The Offspring's Greatest Hits compilation. However, the video appeared on the Complete Music Video Collection DVD.

[edit] Track listing

1. "She's Got Issues" - 3:49
2. "The Kids Aren't Alright (Full Mix)" - 4:56
3. "All I Want (Live)" - 2:29
4. "Pretty Fly (For A White Guy) (The Baka Boyz Low Rider Remix)" - 3:01

[edit] Trivia

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• The song actually had three covers - all feature the same artwork and image, but have different coloured backgrounds - red (shown), green, and blue.
• Dexter Holland stated that this is one of his least favorite songs.

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