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And next to it he wrote lyrics on these other scraps, and on one of them he wrote 'I am my own worst enemy.' “There were scraps of paper on his seat where he'd write mileage, so he'd know when to get gas. He owned a Cadillac with a broken gas gauge. Jay showed up late,” Popoff said, referencing his brother, lead singer A. With that, drummer Alan Shellenberger and bassist Kevin Baldes joined in and laid down the verse track.

That riff was the charging opening riff that makes “My Own Worst Enemy” instantly recognizable.

The band was hanging in the Anaheim, Calif., warehouse it used to rehearse, and Popoff started messing around with a riff. “It was one of those songs that sort of wrote itself,” Popoff explained. It's one of the seminal songs of the modern rock era, led by a charged riff written by Popoff. 1 on the Billboard Modern Rock chart and stayed there for nearly a dozen weeks. The world loved “My Own Worst Enemy,” which in 1999 hit No.

“In Japan, this Japanese guy told me that was his life story,” said Jeremy Popoff, lead guitarist of Lit. During the spring and summer of 1999, you couldn't get away from “My Own Worst Enemy.” The song, an infectious singalong by Southern California rock band Lit, chronicled the aftermath of a disastrous night out.

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