Always

For their fifth studio album, blink-182 strayed from their tried and true pop-punk formula and explored other sonic elements, which is evident on this New Wave-influenced love tune. "This is a total '80s song," bassist Mark Hoppus explained in the liner notes. "At the outro, there are four bass guitars being played. A Fender Bass VI, a Fender Percussion bass doing two different things, and a Roland Synth Bass, that sounds like a keyboard. One of the things I love best about this song is Travis's percussion, using the cabassa as an accent before the snare hit."

Travis Barker: "I was thinking Missing Persons, so we recorded everything super dry and '80s feeling. The cymbals are on top of each other, with cool keyboards in the outro. There's a really fast tambourine in the choruses. I think anyone can love this song. It was a simple song."

Australian pop singer Sophie Monk appears in the video, which was filmed in her homeland. The clip, directed by Joseph Kahn, plays around with the split-screen technique with sliding horizontal panels. Kahn has worked with a diverse range of artists since he started his career in the early '90s. Just in 2004, he directed clips for blink-182, Russian singer Alsou ("Always On My Mind"), Britney Spears ("Toxic"), Ashley Simpson ("La La"), and The Offspring ("(Can't Get My) Head Around You").