ONE HIT WONDERLAND: “Absolutely (Story of a Girl)” by Nine Days
Admit it, the first line of this song instantly started playing in your head, didn’t it?
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Admit it, the first line of this song instantly started playing in your head, didn’t it?
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@JoelAdamson
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
It's weird how much I miss mediocre music. It was so comforting.
@bkjamesdaking
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Did they ever figure out how many days in a year?
@JHNO66
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
He doesn’t love her when she isn’t smiling?
@bobthebear1246
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Well, Todd, I loved the song so much that I was one of the 500k+ people who actually bought the album on CD. That being said, I don't remember playing anything else on the album but it (ooops). I always did love this song, though and, guess what: I still do.
"It's got that something," all right, but it succeeds because of itself, not in spite of it. It's still insanely catchy and I basically get the message of it, so bite me on my left asscheek, Todd. 😝 HAPPINESS!! 🌈
@JamesJimmaHarding
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Is it just me or do "Absolutely" and "If I am" sound like they're both from entirely different eras despite being consecutive singles on the same album? "Absolutely" makes them sound like obvious Barenaked Ladies wannabes, but "If I am" sounds more like something you'd hear around 2008 or 09, just before rock music became "passé"!
@njujuznem6554
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
3:09 I love Carbon Leaf! I'm from the UK but randomly discovered them when I was about 12. I've never heard anyone talk about them before!
@PhillyMJS
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
3:22 “…and since these albums were recorded in the 90s, all their stuff sounds like it could play in the background of Party of Five.” As someone who was a religious viewer of Party of Five back in the day and still owns the soundtrack CD, I laughed way too hard at that line.
@SoCalJellybean
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
UGGGHH, when this “song” used to play on the radio all the time, I couldn’t change the channel fast enough!!
This song blows! 🤮
@katiestott1449
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I can say from experience that this song slaps when you're a 12-14 year-old girl and you're feeling sad, but you still want a cute boy to find you pretty and fascinating. That was as deep as it ever went for me, but it was obviously enough because I had like 5 friends who made this the default song on their myspace pages in middle school… and like 3 more of them had "Just the Girl" by The Click Five so it was clearly a winning recipe back then…
@lucy-annedawson4849
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
British. So have no idea this song existed. Watched this anyway.
@ovalteen4404
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
The "girl" sounds like a Greek myth.
Persoggyknees wept for days, causing untold destruction and loss of life. Zeus was so distraught that he saved a bunch of women (and then banged them).
@arashimiyazawa8165
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
The after-market stereo in my old car back in the day would automatically start playing the first song on your iPod or whatever whenever you connected it. For me that just happened to be "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)". So that opening line is permanently etched into my brain. My wife absolutely hates the song just because the stereo auto-playing the first line before we could switch to a playlist irritated her to no end 😀
@dishwasher1527
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Started trashing this song and i thought "i'll hear him out cuz I feel kinda the same but I also love this song". then you start praising it. Now I'm all in. I kinda feel the same but I will never hate on this song cuz it's been around for so much of my life. It always seems to come back during big points in my life. That being said I remember getting the whole album… I couldn't even tell you another song by them.
@randomwrestlingarchive3937
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
They played a free show here around 2008-2009. No one seemed to care at all.
@TSFboi
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
This song makes me feel like I'm at a mall in Southern California, too nervous to ask my crush to the prom. And I'm not even American
@Theguy493
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Grew up on Long Island. These guys were super popular on Long Island and the general Tri State area and nowhere else.
@ayok101
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I remember downloading this song on an old MP3 player and the artist was listed as "Blink-182 or Sum 41(?)"
@comicon30
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Came back here after working a gig where the guy from ninedays performed and can say he is a very nice guy. Also fun fact that follow-up single is apparently the song he wanted to be a hit
@Nicole-zh7pl
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I took it as she's a weepy and dramatic baby about basically anything and everything. Her clothes not looking as good as she thought. Her hair is pissing her off…her complaints are endless. But when she smiles, damn I love that annoying woman.
@liquidl5380
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
This song got a ton of play on my iPod (I think it was one of the free songs they gave away back in the day, when they gave away a few songs every week or month or whatever it was?) let me tell you, it definitely spoke to the severely depressed girl of the early aughties…..
@LowgaenSchmidt
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Episodes on The Click Five's Just the Girl and Tal Bachman's She's So High would be so entertaining.
@kik0haching
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
If I Am was also a hit.
@Verlisify
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
This video was region locked for a bit right? Seems like its back
@robertscotton9339
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Woke up with this song stuck in my head today. Haven’t heard it in years. But it still hits.
@kylieglatt7015
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I went to Wantagh high school on LI from 98-2002, this song was written about one of our teachers. I never had her as a teacher but everyone in school talked about it, I believe she was the lead singer's fiancé at the time. So she was like the coolest teacher ever because not only was her partner's band on the radio and MTV, she was literally the subject of their big song. I had totally forgotten about that until the video popped up
@miloszobloza
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I think the song is about Aileen Wournos
@robertkarol4580
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
When Todd does Tal Bachman, I’m excited for the discussion of his political punditry!
@kh0357
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
this song got me into music when i was like 4 i owe everything ive ever done in my life to this song this videos awesome tho
@chelmrtz
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Why does the guy on keyboards look like Jesse Pinkman?
@LazyCat010
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
4:10 This is not the story of a girl, it is merely a tribute.
@nnnArchive
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
“Screwed by the label” =w=eezer moment
@sirleebutler
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
i came to look this video up after seeing a video of the lead singer playing the song acoustic for his students, talking about how shitty being a touring band was for them. the students clearly like and respect him, since they didn’t completely tear him to shreds. it was utterly charming.
@mattburns872
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
How have you never done breakfast at Tiffanys? Lol
@very_hungry_butterfly
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I remember Carbon Leaf. They did a couple of shows at or near Sweet Briar College in the late 90s. Liked those guys.
@DeathMetalDerf
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I always thought this song was done by some crappy Matchbox Twenty spinoff band
@Macaroni_and_Cliches
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Hey now Just The Girl was a bop
@MDHWritesStreams
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
It's fun coming back to this video and seeing multiple one hit wonders Todd would cover later.
@bruxist
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
Maybe she would smile more if she had a towel and did not have to put her clothes on while she was still sopping wet from the tub.
@bruxist
October 7, 2025 at 7:22 pm
I gotta say, I think that little keys part before the guitar solo is pretty boss.
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