The 2009 death of Adam Goldstein was not the only sad footnote in the "Adam's Song" story. The song itself was partially inspired by a teenage boy's suicide letter, which Mark Hoppus received in an email. And then in the year 2000 — one year after "Enema of the State" was released — a 17-year-old Columbine high school shooting survivor killed himself with the song set on repeat, The Denver Post reported that year. Speaking with MTV News, Hoppus recalled what it was like when he found out what happened. "I was actually out shopping, and management called me up and told me the story of what happened, and I was like, 'But that's an anti-suicide song!'" he said.
"It felt awful," he continued. "I mean, the things that the kid had to go through in his life were very saddening, and then to end it that way was really depressing." The hit single, he said, "is about having hard times in your life, being depressed, and going through a difficult period, but then finding the strength to go on and finding a better place at the other side of that."
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