He is asking her about what exactly happened all those years ago, and asking her if she is alright, if she will recover okay. Now he has gotten in touch with Kristy again after all the years. He knew something was wrong back then, but he didn't know what, so he didn't tell any adult about it, and now he is so sorry that he didn't. However, just because her dress was fixed, doesn't mean her life can be so easily. Now that he is older, the narrator is finally realizing that is friend Kristy was possibly abused/raped/molested by someone. Over the years, he sort of forgot about what happened to Kristy, but because it happened to her and not him, she will never be able to put it in the back of her mind and almost forget about it like the narrator was able to. The narrator knew someone did something to her, but he doesn't know what or who. At one point in time, she started acting funny, like something was wrong. He is remembering himself when he was a young child, maybe 7 or 8 years old from my guess. : The Offspring, : Kristy, Are You Doing Okay, : 03:43, : 3.41, , : mp3.
A subreddit dedicated to The Offspring, a punk rock band from Huntington Beach, California. The Offspring Kristy, Are You Doing Okay. A girl asked a question and her name was Kristy and Dexter randomly started talking about how nice a name that was. It sounds like a personal thing, so if yall have any info.
Retrieved February 10, 2015.It starts with the thoughts of a narrator: What is 'Kristy, are you doing ok' about.
However, he does nothing, and she is left alone. A boy in the class (a younger Dexter, played by Trevor Morgan) notices her, and suspects that something is wrong. The video depicts a teenage girl ( Natalie Dreyfuss) who writes continuously in her diary about being abused. Music videoĪ music video was made with director Lex Halaby. Holland wrote the song as an apology to the girl. She was sexually abused, and everybody in the neighborhood (including Dexter himself) knew about it, but nobody did anything about it. The song was written about a girl that singer Dexter Holland knew as a child. The song impacted radio on November 25, 2008. Him, and everyone else in their neighborhood, knew that this girl was sexually abused, but nobody did anything about it. The song features as the seventh track (fifth track on the LP) on the band's eighth studio album, Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace (2008), and was released as the third single from the album. Kristy is a girl that the writer/performer, Dexter Holland, knew as a kid. " Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" is a song by American punk rock band The Offspring. November 2006 –April 2008 in Maui, Hawaii and Orange County, California Novem(rock radio) Febru(mainstream radio) 2008 single by The Offspring "Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?"įrom the album Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace