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“Aliens Exist” is a song about lead singer Tom Delonge’s belief in aliens. Tom, who has a strong fascination and belief in extraterrestrial life and even claims to have made contact, wrote the song.
Following his departure from the band in 2015, DeLonge decided to devote time to the exploration of “Unidentified Aerial Phenomen.” In a 2016 interview with Mic.com, DeLonge dismissively commented on the song:
Mic: How many people have made a joke about your ‘Aliens Exist’ song in relation to this project ?
Tom: Yeah, isn’t that the weirdest thing? It’s weird that people remember that song. It’s, like, an eighth album track from, like, 20 years ago.
In a program for one of Blink’s tours around the time of Enema’s release, Tom left a brief annotation for each track. For “Aliens Exist”:
"'As a hobby all I ever do is read books and study material on UFOs and government conspiracies. So I wrote a song about a guy talking about aliens as though he’s had a weird experience but nobody believes him, they think he’s full of shit. But he’s directing his angst toward the government, because the government knows there’s something going on. But I’m one of those freaks that really believes that stuff exists. I think if anybody out there does a little bit of research they will find that they side with me. I think it’s just a cool song coming from that point of view. I read books about abductions, and there are hundreds of thousands of people a year have an experience at night and they don’t know what it is, they just know what they saw and what they felt, but nobody believes them.'"
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