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During the Iraq War, Green Day, the alt-rock band, was struggling until it hit on the idea of an anti-Bush rebrand. The result, American Idiot, made them stars again.
The middle-aged band is trying to do it again by going where everyone, including they, have gone before.
Green Day performed a fan favorite while performing live on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, but with a twist.
While singing the 2004 classic rock hit American Idiot, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong opted to omit an anti-gay slur from one of the lines, and change the original lyric “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
So edgy.
Like a lot of faded rock stars, Armstrong looks like an elderly lesbian and is attempting to make headlines ahead of the release of the band’s latest forgettable album. People used to call Green Day pop-punk, the safe thing to do is call it a rock band because it’s gotten way too old and tired to be punk. Not that it isn’t trying by going right back to its American Idiot days.
The lead single for its latest album is titled, “The American Dream Is Killing Me.”
Enough said.
This isn’t punk, it’s as establishment as it gets. So was American Idiot. And so the doughy guy who looks like a suburban accountant wearing mascara shows up to Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve to really it out there on the line.
“I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.”
That clears that up. I’m sure everybody was wondering.
And in 2018, the band performed an intimate concert during the international arts festival Cannes Lions, and got candid with the audience between songs.
“I f—ing hate Donald Trump so much,” he said. “I used to scream I hated George Bush. This one is a little different. This one is bad’ it’s like acid gone bad. F—ing LSD and the American Right, man.”
Like I said, edgy. The old Gen X audience of suburban college students now consists of middle-aged elite-class liberals. Armstrong can look forward to complaining that some future Republican president forced him to go to school.
Perpetual adolescence is nothing to be proud of and neither is hatred for the peace and prosperity that MAGA produced. Those decrepit dorks are all eight years younger than me but look ten years older. Out of date clothing can’t hide the pot bellies, receding hairlines and hair dye, much less their has been status. I can smell the Bengay from here. They need to join Alzheimer Joe in a retirement home for retards. They can all reminisce about the MASA (Make America Suck Again) days of Toothless Joe’s meat puppet administration. Maybe tired old Bruce Springsteen can join them for a boring rendition of “Glory Days,” although it would probably be hard to play their instruments with arthritis and incontinence.
Billy Joe still has all his shoe polish hair but he looks even less masculine than Robbie Benson as Billie Joe McCallister. There are plenty of bridges around the East Bay. Hopefully he’ll jump off one after his next amorous encounter with a middle aged male fan.
Did I mention that even back in the 90s their songs sucked? Talk about American idiots.
Make America Suck Again. I will remember that one. 🙂
Jeff, it’s a shame you left teaching. I bet you were a terrific English teacher. Your comments are withering.
All the best teachers leave teaching…or count the days until they can.
Jackasses who never grew up.
Yes, rock stars never have to grow up until their careers dry up, but many of them do make the transition into adulthood and some started out as adults, like Ted Nugent, Steve Miller and Chris Isaak. They should learn from country stars, who are much better grounded in reality.
Rap/hip hop stars are the most juvenile of all but even some of them grow up, like Fifty Cents, Latifah and Sean Combs (although that guy would benefit from a good mental/emotional therapist.)
The Green Day geeks will probably end up spending their days between nap times, jello cups and regaling their nurse caregivers with boring stories of anti-American concert tours and how much they hate Big Don. The rest of us oldsters are reading books, hiking and gobbling Viagra (if necessary. So far I’m batting 1000 and I bet you are too.)
Very edgy. I seriously don’t mean to toot my own horn here, but I’ve been a musician and songwriter for coming up on 50 years now and I have more talent in my LEFT hand than this entire group of stupid. Lemme provide a palate cleanser with something that I’m currently working on:
My father raised me the old fashioned way.
Taught me to work hard.
Taught me to pray.
Taught me to love that ol’ Red, White and Blue.
“Take care of her, son, and she’ll take care of you.”
Well daddy’s been gone now,
For so many years,
And I struggle to write down
These words through the tears.
For though I sure miss him,
I’m so glad he’s gone,
’cause he’d never believe
All the things goin’ on.
very nice, would love to hear it one day
Those are cool lyrics. They remind me of John Rich and his song about his WWII vet grandfather, “The Man.”
You should link a video or recording of your song when you get the chance.
The local bands where I live blow them out of the water. Green day would have to play the bars with chicken wire in front of the stage so they don’t get pelted with food and bottles.
Just keep dashing his head against the wall until his pea brain comes out his left ear
Just remember two of t he hit songs from last Summer TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN and RICHMEN NORTH OF RICHMON got all those Liberal Snowflakes so upset
Those are good songs with good lyrics. I especially like the bluegrass sound of Anthony’s song, which has a cool overnight success story behind it. He deserves it, although he should grow some bushy hair to match his bushy beard and trade in his sweat pants for a pair of real pants.
It really is. In the 80s Dems really had to step up their game and actually deliver the kind of movies and entertainment that people wanted to watch. The sort that got Bush to talk about a “kinder and gentler America” because he was never going to have the connection Reagan had ever, before Reagan went a bit memory loss. A kinder and gentler country club Republican with all the paternalism that implied.
So now Green Day are doing their faded memory tour. Their faded memory tour of all the American tropes stupid people laugh at because they won’t have much to laugh at when they get their way. They won’t even be “relevant”.
Eminem already went down this line and it flopped because there’s nothing there with Trump.
Nothing except peace and prosperity replaced with Biden war and hardship.
What are you going to call out for satisfaction? Trump’s Clintonesque debauchery? There’s nothing there except that he didn’t do LSD probably.
No, Big Don Trump just made America great again while Alzheimer Joe has presided over his handlers making America suck again. Biden America is like the Obamanation on anal nitrate butt steroids.
Delaware? No, Pedo Joe Goes to Hollywood with Frankie.
Republicans might not like the LSD association now that Dems are the establishment. That’s about what Green Day morons could come up with.
We all get the Covids, we all get aches, we got to Trump vaccinate together, after all
Actually, it’s the Dirtbagocrats who push multiple Wuhan flu “vaccine” jabs multiple times a year starting at birth. These are the same scummy hypocrites who opposed the vaccines when President Trump had them fast track developed.
Whatever makes big pharma happy and fills Dirtbagocrat coffers and pockets.
How are those excess deaths ramping up BTW?
Green Day is time to throw out rotting bread.
Good one, Daniel. Considering Green Day’s music, the only song I’ve ever really liked by them seems quite fitting here: “Good Riddance.”
The real question is, is billy joe’s mascara waterproof? He probably likes to be choked.