I'm Eighteen Single by: Alice Cooper Album: Love It to Death Released: November 1970 Genre: Hard rock, glam rock Songwriters: Alice Cooper, Michael Bruce, Glen Buxton, Dennis Dunaway, Neal Smith " I'm Eighteen , " from their third album, Love It to Death , was Alice Cooper 's breakthrough hit, reaching number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 single's chart. The song describes the frustrations of being an American teenager. According to the group's drummer, Neal Smith: "It was a song about growing up in the '60s, with lines like you could go to war, but you couldn't vote. We had no idea it would become an anthem; we thought it would be a cool song."