| "I'm the One" | ||||
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 The single's cover is the full illustration created for Everything Sucks, which was used for the album's lyric sheet (the upper right quadrant was used as the album's cover). | ||||
| Single by the Descendents | ||||
| from the album Everything Sucks | ||||
| Released | January 12, 1997 | |||
| Recorded | June–July 1996 at The Blasting Room, Fort Collins, Colorado | |||
| Genre | Punk rock | |||
| Length | 2:15 | |||
| Label | Epitaph (E-86490) | |||
| Songwriter | Karl Alvarez | |||
| Producers | Bill Stevenson, Stephen Egerton | |||
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"I'm the One" is a song by the American punk rock band the Descendents, released as the first single from their 1996 album Everything Sucks . The single also includes "Everything Sux" from the album and the B-side tracks "Lucky" and "Shattered Milo" from the album sessions.
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The music video for "I'm the One" was directed by Dave Robinson. It depicts the band members visiting a sperm bank in order to make a sperm donation, and skateboarding down a street while wearing white costumes resembling sperm, interspersed with black-and-white footage of the band performing the song in concert. [1] Singer Milo Aukerman later remarked that the concept was Robinson's: "He kinda took the idea of 'I'm the One' to mean 'I'm gonna be your sperm, baby.' When he told me the idea I thought, 'Oh no, shades of Woody Allen!', but when I got on that skateboard in that sperm costume, I don't know, things just started to work for me. Don't forget, we spend a lot of our time being incredibly stupid and silly." [2]
