The next day, I found a couple of my friends were taken in by security, who were searching for me all night. I stole a janitor cart, and me and five friends jumped onto the flatbed, rode down the sidewalk, and got chased by the cops. The last time it happened was when we got really drunk in Laughlin, Nevada, for New Year's. The singer said that the song's second verse 'is about the morning after, when you hear about all the lame shit you did. I actually sang 'My Own Worst Enemy' naked in the studio'. It happens when I've been drinking Jägermeister. Sometimes I get in trouble when I get naked in public and have a girl there.

Jay Popoff said that the song 'was the combination of many, many incidents.

Jay's the king of having four ex-girlfriends show up to the same show. The first verse is about screwing up with your chick. Popoff described a New Year's when the band got drunk in Laughlin, Nevada he stole a janitor's cart, and he 'and five friends jumped onto the flatbed, rode down the sidewalk, and got chased by the cops'.Īccording to Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff, 'My Own Worst Enemy' 'is the result of waking up and realizing you screwed up the night before. Jay Popoff said that the song 'was the combination of many, many incidents' he had gotten in trouble with the law for public nudity in the late 1990s, and sang 'My Own Worst Enemy' nude in the studio. It was inside the Famous Tiki Bar which was the home of DiPiazza's Restaurant.Ĭonsidered pop punk, power pop and alternative rock, 'My Own Worst Enemy' is, according to Lit guitarist Jeremy Popoff, 'the result of waking up and realizing you screwed up the night before'. Its music video was filmed by Gavin Bowden in a Long Beach bowling alley. At the 1999 Billboard Music Awards, 'My Own Worst Enemy' won the Modern Rock Track of the Year award. The song's success helped A Place in the Sun to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on October 27, 1999, for sales of 1,300,000 copies in the United States. It later achieved mainstream success, peaking at number 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number one on the Modern Rock Tracks (also known as Alternative Songs) chart. The song was only moderately successful at first, reaching number 17 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart on February 27, 1999. It was commercially released in June 1999 as the lead single from Lit's second album, A Place in the Sun, which was also released that year. ' My Own Worst Enemy' is a song by the American rock band Lit.

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