{"id":487307,"date":"2019-06-21T15:14:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T21:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851296"},"modified":"2019-06-21T15:14:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T21:14:09","slug":"watch-blink-182s-new-50-second-ripper-generational-divide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-blink-182s-new-50-second-ripper-generational-divide\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Blink-182\u2019s New 50-Second Ripper \u2018Generational Divide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/GettyImages-1157275852w.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/blink-182\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blink-182\" data-tag=\"blink-182\">Blink-182<\/a> tackle aging and time with impressive brevity on their new song, \u201cGenerational Divide,\u201d which clocks in at just 50 seconds. The track arrives with a video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, in which the band performs the song in a small room plastered with concert fliers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGenerational Divide\u201d is a burst driving guitars and hardcore drums, with Mark Hoppus and Matt Skiba teaming for some quintessential early-2000s emo cascading vocals. \u201cIs it better, is it better now?\/Are we better now, are we better now?\u201d Hoppus sings before Skiba piles on, \u201cAll we needed was needed was a life line\/We swore we\u2019d be better than the last time\/Donate, tell me that you\u2019re alright\/I\u2019m not the generational divide.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cGenerational Divide\u201d is set to appear on Blink-182\u2019s next record, though neither a release date nor title have been announced. In May, the band shared another new song, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blink-182-blame-it-on-my-youth-lyric-video-832987\/\">\u201cBlame It On My Youth.\u201d<\/a> Blink-182\u2019s last album, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/california-192132\/\"><em>California<\/em><\/a>, arrived in 2016 and notably marked their first with Skiba, who replaced founding singer\/guitarist Mark Hoppus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Blink-182 will embark on a co-headlining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blink-182-lil-wayne-summer-tour-831871\/\">tour<\/a> with Lil Wayne this summer. The run kicks off June 27th in Columbus, Ohio, and during the trek Blink will celebrate the 20th anniversary of their classic LP, <em>Enema of the State<\/em>, by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blink-182-to-perform-enema-of-the-state-straight-through-on-summer-tour-844709\/\">performing it<\/a> in its entirety.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/blink-182s-new-song-generational-divide-851296\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blink-182 tackle aging and time with impressive brevity on their new song, \u201cGenerational Divide,\u201d which clocks in at just 50 seconds. The track arrives with a video, directed by Kevin Kerslake, in which the band performs the song in a small room plastered with concert fliers. \u201cGenerational Divide\u201d is a burst driving guitars and hardcore [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-487307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 16:20:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}