69': "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" vs. "What's My Age Again"

Song Vs. Song

Todd Nathanson

Comedy, Music

4.7 • 752 Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Nobody likes you when you're 23, but at least you know you can always go on Ricki Lake! What is the snotty pop punk song of 1999, "Pretty Fly for a White Guy" or "What's My Age Again"?

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Todd Nadenson.
0:04.1	And I'm Lena Morgan.
0:05.5	And this is song versus song.
0:08.0	Oh, God, it's good to be back.
0:10.6	Maybe.
0:11.1	Is it?
0:11.6	I know.
0:11.9	I don't know.
0:14.4	I really, you know, I just, it's the, it's just how gung-ho.
0:19.0	Is that, can you say gung-ho?
0:20.4	That seems wrong now, right? I think gung-ho, is that, can you say gung-ho? That seems wrong now, right?
0:21.4	I think gung-ho is fine. You seem really excited to come back. It's on my mind because one of
0:26.5	the two songs we're going to discuss is inexorably tied to a word that was said very commonly in
0:32.2	the 90s. We absolutely do not say anymore. Does it start with W? It sure does.
0:38.7	Tom, would you like to introduce the songs?
0:40.8	Yes, we are going to pop punk like it's 1999.
0:44.8	We are doing Blink 182's What's My Age Again?
0:49.8	Versus the Osprings Pretty Pretty Fly for a White Guy.
0:55.6	And all the girly say, I'm pretty fly for a white.
0:59.0	I think I was born to do this because 1999 was like my coming of age, I guess, where I was like, wait, music can be good.
1:11.9	And that's when I really got into it.
1:14.1	That's when I first really started watching MTV.
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