"Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?" is a song by American

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band

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. The song features as the seventh track (fifth track on the LP) on the band's eighth studio album, ''

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'' (2008), and was released as its third single. The song impacted radio on November 25, 2008.

Content

The song was written about a girl that singer

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knew as a child. She was sexually abused, and everybody in the neighborhood, including Dexter himself, knew about it but nobody took action. Holland wrote the song as an apology to the girl.

Music video

A music video was made with director Lex Halaby. It premiered on February 2, 2009 on AOLmusic.com. The video depicts a teenage girl (

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) who writes continuously in her diary about being abused. A boy in the class (a younger Dexter, played by Trevor Morgan) notices her, and suspects that something is wrong. However, he does nothing, and she is left alone. At the end of the video, after exchanging glances, Kristy leaves her diary on the school grandstand for Dexter. The pages of the diary appear in the interspersed scenes of Dexter playing an acoustic guitar.

Personnel

The Offspring

– vocals, guitar *

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– guitar *

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– bass

Additional musicians

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– drums

Charts

References

External links

* The Offspring songs 2008 singles Songs written by Dexter Holland Rock ballads Song recordings produced by Bob Rock Songs about child abuse 2008 songs {{2000s-rock-single-stub