I bet that twenty years ago in the rooms of many twenty-somethings fans of rock, vaguely rebellious, or just a fun-loving, there was a poster of the Blink-182 . And if you are not the poster of course, everybody sang or danced at least once (maybe raising to the sky the middle finger), What’s My Age Again, a hymn of generations that still makes its effect. Twenty years have passed since then, and twenty-seven from when Blink started their long adventure in music. “And today, Blink-182 are great, better than ever,” says Mark Hoppus , with a good dose of enthusiasm. The reason for such enthusiasm is the ninth album of the american band, released just a few weeks ago, entitled, with extreme simplicity Nine. A different album from the usual, definitely more oriented towards the mainstream, and even astonishing, when you hear the use of autotune, but always solidly marked by the unmistakable style of the californian band. “We have worked because this album was different, it is not success for the event”, emphasizes Hoppus, “we wanted to put ourselves to the test, to be a band that not only moves within a pattern, going from punk to hip hop, to dance, to metal. Who cares of the genre, are no longer of interest to anyone, people want to listen to exciting things, we want to play exciting things, and so it was. It seemed stupid to stay closed up in our box, at a time when there are so many different things around, so many sounds, styles, possibilities, ideas. And we thought that we would have been much happier if we had not done a single thing”.

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