
The singer 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". I went with a guy for a year, but he told me he wanted to get married and I. 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. To Kelly, as to all newcomers, New York was where your life plot thickened. Considered pop punk and power pop, "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 Las Vegas bowling alley. At the 1999 Billboard Music Awards, "My Own Worst Enemy" won the Modern Rock Track of the Year award. 6 Critical reception James Oldham of NME called 'My Own Worst Enemy' 'totally loathsome, poisonous stuff, but quite addictive. The song's success helped A Place in the Sun to be certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on Octofor sales of 1,300,000 copies in the United States. 8 ' My Own Worst Enemy' has been incorrectly attributed to Blink-182, and its title misquoted as 'Please Tell Me Why'. 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 released in March 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.
