blink-182’s huge 2003 smash, “I Miss You,” has joined Spotify’s illustrious Billions Membership. The only marks blink’s second monitor to attain the feat, following “All The Small Things” from 1999.
Although the tune was a staple of the band’s 2025 Missionary Inconceivable Tour (which wrapped up in early October), “I Miss You” was initially one the band didn’t think about enjoying dwell.
In a 2003 interview with MTV earlier than KROQ-FM’s Nearly Acoustic Christmas Competition, Tom DeLonge was requested about performing the hit single, one in every of many standout cuts from their 2003 self-titled LP: “This is the thing, the song’s really hard to play,” he defined. “We’ve never played it before. We might play it in the future, or we might have it on a ghetto blaster onstage and we might do an interpretive dance. It’s one of those things, but it’s gonna be good, though, no matter what it is.” The tune has, after all, turn out to be an integral a part of the blink-182 set.
Throughout that very same interview, DeLonge additionally spoke in regards to the depth and relatability of the lyrics. “Once the lyrics start singing about a spider eating the insides of a bug, I think people take that and go, ‘Maybe it’s not about their families.’ And it talks about [celebrating] Halloween on Christmas and all these different dark kinds of things. The song’s more about the vulnerability and kind of heart-wrenching pain you feel when you’re in love and when you’re a guy and you’re trying to tell a girl, ‘Don’t waste your time coming and talking to me because, in my head at least, you probably already gave me up a long time ago.’”
As beforehand talked about, Mark Hoppus, DeLonge, and Travis Barker concluded their profitable Missionary Inconceivable Tour again in October. The band stopped in Hollywood (FL), Tampa, Charleston, Raleigh, Virginia Seashore, Saratoga Springs, Buffalo, and extra. Particular visitors Alkaline Trio joined on all dates.
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