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The Offspring Why Gone Away Is So Misunderstood About Dexter Hollands Personal Life
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Why The Offspring's Song 'Gone Away is So Misunderstood' • SIGN UP for 10 of the Craziest Stories in Rock N' Roll [Secret Playlist]: https://bit.ly/3vVPAEF • Check out our Top 25 Favourite Albums Here • https://rockandrolltruestories.com/ • Have a video request or a topic you'd like to see us cover? Fill out our google form! • https://bit.ly/3stnXlN • ----CONNECT ON SOCIAL---- • Instagram: / rocknrolltruestories • Facebook: / rnrtruestories • Twitter: / rocktruestories • Blog: www.rockandrolltruestories.com • #theoffspring #dexterholland #goneaway • I cite my sources and they may differ than other people's accounts, so I don't guarantee the actual accuracy of my videos. • The Offspring’s fourth album 1997’s Ixnay on the Hombre would be the group’s highly anticipated follow up to 1994’s Smash. Smash would be the biggest independent selling record in history and put the Offspring on a lot of people’s radars thanks to hits like self esteem, come out and play. Along with Green Day, The Offspring would help bring punk rock to the mainstream, displacing grunge which had dominated the earlier part of the decade. The Offspring’s fourth record would contain a song called Gone Away - an anomaly in their catalog, a slower track that would give the band their first number one hit on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks Charts. But for nearly two decades the story behind the song was widely misunderstood and that’s what we’re going to explore in today’s video. • During the press tour for the group’s fourth album frontman Dexter Holland would be vague when the topic of Gone Away came up. The LA Times would write in a 1997 during a profile on the band and I quote • “On the other end of the emotional scale is “Gone Away,” an epic expression of grief that Holland won’t discuss. “It’s based on some personal experience, but I don’t want to go into it more than that,” he said.” The band would be interviewed by the LA Times later on in the year where Holland was a little more forthcoming saying “We liked the idea of writing something that was . . . what’s the word?” I hate to say heartfelt, because that sounds a little cheesy. . . . The idea with this was to actually try to make it feel real without being wimpy. We tried to get across the idea that ending a relationship can be painful, but in a real way and not just a testosterone-packed [way].” • It circulated online for many years that the song was written about a girlfriend of Holland’s who tragically died in a car crash. You can’t blame fans for thinking that. Holland admitted in interviews that the song was about a relationship and the song’s lyrics are littered with references to someone who has passed and the grief that follows. • Holland would reveal on one of the band’s DVD releases saying ‘gone away was a really different song for us. We hadn’t really done a song that was almost slow for us really..it was just an idea we had and we wanted to see what we could do with it. I think a lot of what we really wanted to do at that time on ixnay was kind of not just repeat the last album…so it was important to us to try and make a great album…and that was part of the attraction of doing that song like gone away.That it was different and you know it was a different song mood wise too. . i mean it’s a real serious song, it’s probably the most serious song we do. You can read into it how you want, but it’s about loss and losing someone. Holland would reveal to Kerrang that the band received countless letters from fans revealing I get some letters from people saying how much 'Gone Away' - which is about losing someone - means to them, from parents who have written to me to say that it helped them get over the loss of their son who died from leukemia. It rips your heart out. • Then as recently as 2021 Holland finally revealed what the song was actually about and how the long rumored story of his girlfriend dying in a car accident was not true. Here's what he told interviewer Bob Lefsetz • In more recent years Holland would end up playing a piano version of the song during live shows and the band included a piano version of the song on their latest album 2021’s 'let the band times roll.' • The group Five Finger Death Punch have covered the song on their 2017 compilation album, A Decade of Destruction, and on their 2018 studio album, And Justice for None. Their cover would peak at Number 2 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Airplay chart in April 2018.
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