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single
First released:
Jul 4 2000

Overview Edit

"Bent" is the first single from Mad Season, the second album by the rock band Matchbox Twenty. The song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 on July 22, 2000, and stayed there for one week before being unseated by 'N Sync's "It's Gonna Be Me".

The song had an interesting reception in the UK market, as "bent" is a slang term synonymous with "gay": the chorus of the song contains the lyric "Can you help me? I'm bent." The song also contains suggestive lyrics in this vein: "Keep breaking me in", a slang term for being sexually penetrated.

This song has no links to homosexuality; Thomas spoke on Storytellers that this song is about two people who are both messed up, but because they're together, it doesn't matter. This was Thomas' first attempt at a love song and he believes it is co-dependent of the 21st century.

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  • Jul 4 2000 in United States

Genres

Post-grunge, Power Pop, Alternative Rock,
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5 stars For long-time fans and newbies alike...
Matchbox Twenty is an incredible band, vastly underrated by the rock critics and the public alike. As their new album, "Mad Season", shows, they have a lot more potential than they are credited for and the song "Bent" really makes you feel it. It's one of these great pop/rock songs that could get stuck in your head for days (although it's still not my favorite on "Mad Season"). The B-Side is the acoustic version of their hit "Push" that was previously available on the "3 am" import single and on…
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Written by "rock_freak"
1 stars Bland as they wanna ba
What exactly are Matchbox 20? Are they a rock band? Well none of their recorded material particuarly rocks, perhaps at one point they conceived their songs as rock n'roll, but they've been so probed and prodded in production so that they can be played on commercial radio that they hardly resemble rock at all. Are their songs ballads? Well they're almost too fast and up-tempo to be ballads. No, Matchbox 20 have successfully managed to carve their own niche in the music industry, a new genre calle…
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Written by Jacob Marshall "DJ Bollocks"

Track listing Edit

  • CD

    format:
    number:
    title:
    number name artist hh:mm:ss
    1
    Bent
    4:17
    2
    Push (acoustic)
    4:21

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