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Always" is the fourth single from
Blink-182's
2003 ''
Blink-182'' album. It was released in December
2004. The song, clocking in at 4:12, is Blink-182's longest single. "
All of This", times at 4:40, would have beaten this record, had Blink-182 not gone on hiatus and actually released the track. Like much of the album, the song shows the band's 1980s influences, with the multiple-layered, heavily effected guitars and new-wave synthesizers.
The music video for the song features
Australian
pop singer Sophie Monk. The film clip has the screen divided into 3 sections, reminiscent of
Weezer's 1997 video for
The Good Life, with each band member taking a level as they try to win over the girl (and at the end it looks like she falls for Travis Barker). The video was directed by
Joseph Kahn.
The end of the song has 4 different bass guitars playing at once.
This was the last single the band released before taking an "indefinite hiatus." It didn't fare well on the radio, only peaking at #39 on the
Billboard Modern Rock Charts, though it received extensive play on music video channels such as
FUSE and
MTV.
This was the last music video that they shot together as a group before going on "indefinite hiatus". Their final music video was "Not Now", but consisted only of old clips of live performances.