2004Released
4:17

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Interesting facts and trivia about Whatsername. By Songfacts®.

This follows the story of Jesus Of Suburbia. After being home, and just living in normality, he still regrets losing Whatsername. It's been so long, he can't even remember her name. He wonders what happened to her, and can only remember. All he has is his memories of her. The album ends with him still trying to forget "If my memory serves me right, I'll never turn back time, forgetting you, but not the time." He doesn't regret living his life on the streets, using it as a learning experience, but still tries to forget Whatsername, the pain that she put him through, and vice versa.

"I think that the true hero of the whole record is the Whatsername character. She's a person that never really wanes; she never really falls from grace. She's the one that kind of stuck to her beliefs and left all the bulls--t behind," Billie Joe Armstrong told VH1 Storytellers. He added: "The Whatsername character tells Jesus of Suburbia/St. Jimmy what they don't want to hear, but inevitably that's what they were going for to begin with, and that's the twist of the whole thing."

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Song Analysis

Key, BPM (tempo) and time signature of Whatsername.
DKey
MajorMode
4/4Time Signature
120BPM

Album

The album Whatsername is released on.

Released By

The record label that has released Whatsername.
Reprise
2005 © 2004 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.
2005 ℗ 2004 Reprise Records for the U.S. and WEA International Inc. for the world outside the U.S.

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