Brohemian Rhapsody

In a track-by-track breakdown of California for Fuse, producer John Feldman shared the story of how he and Blink’s Mark Hoppus came up with this :30 goof.

"Mark and I are coffee fanatics. Verve is one of my favorite coffee places in L.A. We were there before a session one day, drinking coffee and talking. We had “Cynical” and we thought we needed another fast one. He had the lyric, “There’s something about you I can’t put my finger in,” he has these classic one-liners, so we said, “Alright, let’s do a fast punk song.”

We were jacked on espresso, we knew we were going to use that lyric, and that one came together from start to finish, from the inception to the mix, literally in nine minutes. It was over before it even started."

The name is a parody of Queen’s famous song Bohemian Rhapsody from 1975’s A Night at the Opera, which was a much longer 6-minute track with multiple “movements,” as opposed to this track which is a simple, short 30-second punk song with two lines.