“Feeling This” by Blink-182 is the opening track and first single from their self-titled album released in November 2003. The song fits in with the kid-punk, and pop rock genres, with catchy lyrics, and interesting tempo changes. The song was a hit and helped the band to a more global success, having been played on the radio prior to commercial release. MTV aired the Music Video a week before the album’s release.
The music video features the band performing in a tennis court sized enclosure outside at mid-day, with men and women having a mosh pit to the song; singing the lyrics too. It is set in a prison where students of what seems to be a posh school, are being forced to be segregated and to be unexposed to the opposite gender. Between scenes of performance there are scenes of a man and woman changing out of clothes in a locker room. Gradually scene by scene the couple remove more and more clothes and attempt to kiss each other however there is glass separating them. The music video is very sexually orientated; with lots of women in slow motion having pillow fights, and numerous men taking their tops off, however it features no nude scenes.
To promote the song and band further, new merchandise was released with the bands new logo, a smiley face with "x"'s for eyes and 5 arrows on the left hand side. (Image below). It became a recognisable emblem to the band of which they previously did not have. After the bands 5 year hiatus they returned and updated the logo by adding another arrow, however the principle is the same.
Jerry Finn produced the video as well as mixing the album; he had been hired due to previous successful work with Morrissey, Green Day and The Offspring and became good friends with the band. He co-produced, mixed and filmed the band up from 1997, until his death in 2008.
This is the Music Video link to "Feeling This" by Blink 182.
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