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| Recorded = 1998 | Genre = | Length = 3:07 | Label = Columbia | Writer = Dexter Holland | Producer = Dave Jerden | Certification = 4x Platinum (ARIA)〔(ARIA Charts - Accreditations - 1999 Singles ). Aria.com.au. Retrieved on 2014-04-01.〕 Gold (IFPI AUT)〔 (IFPI Austria - Verband der Österreichischen Musikwirtschaft ). Ifpi.at. Retrieved on 2014-04-01.〕 Gold (GER)〔()〕 Gold (NVPI)〔(Goud / Platina | NVPI ). Nvpi.nl. Retrieved on 2014-04-01.〕 2x Platinum (IFPI NOR)〔 3x Platinum (IFPI SWE)〔()〕 Platinum (BPI)〔(Home ). Bpi.co.uk. Retrieved on 2014-04-01.〕 | Last single = "I Choose" (1997) | This single = "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" (1998) | Next single = "Why Don't You Get a Job?" (1999) | Misc = }} "Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)" is a song by American rock band The Offspring. It is the fourth track from their fifth studio album ''Americana'' (1998) and was released as the first single from the album. It achieved significant pop and rock and alternative radio play and popularity, peaking at number 53 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 and at number 5 on the Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 3 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. The song reached the charts in over 15 countries and topped the charts in nine of these, including Australia, where it went four times platinum, and the United Kingdom, making it one of the most commercially successful singles released by the band. The song is a mocking portrayal of a Wigger, a white man who likes to act like an African-American stereotype. The song appears as the seventh track on their ''Greatest Hits'' (2005). ==Composition and lyrics== Opening "Pretty Fly" with a sample of the pseudo-German nonsense phrase "Gunter glieben glauchen globen" from Def Leppard's song "Rock of Ages," reportedly at the cost of $10,000. The song's ridicules a "wannabe gangsta" who is immersed in hip-hop culture not because he truly loves or understands it, but because it is trendy, makes him feel tough ("friends say he's tryin' too hard, and he's not quite hip/but in his own mind, he's the, he's the dopest trip"), and because he believes it attracts women ("and all the girlies say I'm pretty fly, for a white guy"). As summed up by Dexter Holland, the people described in the lyrics "are from, like, Omaha, Nebraska, regular white-bread boys, but who act like they're from Compton. The song was the genesis of the metal/post-avant-garde movement with its early tendencies in the genre defining the late 90's early 00's. It's so fake and obvious that they're trying to have an identity."〔(You Gotta Keep Em Alienated )〕 Holland detailed that he meets many teenagers like those in his native Orange County, "going to the mall, where they buy FUBU, Tommy Hilfiger, and Ice Cube's latest record."〔(Dexter Holland's ''Americana'' Tour )〕 Given rap culture is the starting point, Holland clarified that it was not an attack on African-Americans, but "poseurs of any kind",〔 but without wanting "to be preachy about it... We're getting amusement out of it more than anything else."〔(How to Survive in Suburbia )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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