"She's Got Issues" is a song by The Offspring. It is the seventh track on their fifth studio album Americana (1998) and was released as the fourth and final single on October 19, 1999. The song also appears as the third track on the EP A Piece of Americana (1998). The lyrics to the song have a narrator calling out on his angsty victim playing girlfriend. As singer Dexter Holland described, "Today everyone has issues and no one takes responsibility because their mother or their father drank too much or whatever". The title is inspired by the “typical psychobabble” present in talk shows. The music for the song was inspired by the song “Hold on Loosely” by 38 Special. The video, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris and animated by Wayne White, shows a usual workday of a young adult woman (played by Zooey Deschanel, in one of her first acting credits), and the things in her everyday life, that she finds disturbing or annoying, are enhanced by grotesque cartoons, which repr...