While it's been clear for a while that Green Day are massive fags, after listening to American Idiot all the way through, I was actually able to relate with the themes and message, either intentionally or not, spread throughout the album. American Idiot is a concept album, meaning that each song is meant to lead into the next to tell a cohesive story and narrative.
docs.google.com/document/d/1fwJxcl2NX6DE9L0qVFKY6RQuqLYLwRMidF692p1gamA/edit?usp=sharing ^ Here's my breakdown of each individual song and the overarching narrative. Overall I interpret American Idiot as a rebuke of modern American society and how its vices lure people in and eventually destroy them in mind, body, and soul and how the only way to escape is through living virtuously. In sharp contrast to the common "let people enjoy things" espoused by the band and their fans nowadays.
I already said they themselves are fags, I just like the message of this one particular album. The other concept album (21st Century Breakdown) they did was straight up trash.
Gavin Diaz
No you fucking idiot, is this a weird slide thread? The song “American Idiot” was specifically used over Bush footage back when it was new. Green Day is MTV tier politics and they appealed to the lowest common denominator of basic whitey. Jello Biafra and the dks are extremely far left white-hating degenerate faggots.
Ethan Parker
Green Day used to say nigger all the time. Based??
Gabriel Moore
I know what it was written for and the INTENDED meaning, but a much different meaning can be gleaned from the album as a whole from a different perspective and it isn't even a huge reach.
Ayden Roberts
Bro, this was fantastic. You’d like to do the same thing with Bo Burnham’s Inside.
Jordan King
I watched a docu about dead kennedys. The second question they ask jello is about Assad. He starts talking and I realized my 15 year old self was a retard.
Juan Fisher
This entire album, from a music theory perspective, is so fucking god awful. I don't know how kids can hear this and not immediately turn it off when there are a whole host of artists to choose from out there. I wouldn't even call it Dad rock, closer to Butt Rock.
Isaac Flores
You had to have been in sixth grade when it came out to get it. But I was, and so I really like it.
Landon Scott
You can project anything you want onto it and interpret it however you like. Idk if you were around when this album was new, but it was specifically written for and targeted at impressionable youth. MTV/Fuze played this all day long. MTV is a globohomo factory and this gay fucking album isn’t based. American Idiot can also be seen as when Green Day “sold out” (they have always been garbage pussy punk). I was around 13 when this came out and every single white girl listened to this shit and every single one of them became a basic shitlib. I can not stress enough how often American Idiot was used in Bush footage.
Aaron Jackson
It's standard wall of sound stuff with anthemic choruses and harmonies.
Not to mention as a guitarist myself, BJA has good taste in tone. Les Paul Jr. and '59 Les Paul double-tracked into a Plexi, hard to go wrong with that.
Joshua Sanders
I have a special love for this album, I'd argue it's the pinnacle of post-punk, but even I'm willing to admit that's because I was the perfect age and mix of teenage angst when it came out that all being said greenday is massive fags and they deserve their irrelevance
Brody Ross
green day are fags alright.i have all their albums though, and on some occations i'll blast "when i come around". their dookie album is pretty good. maybe i like it because it reminds me of my junior high school years. i resent myself for a couple of days afterwards. ha ha.
Ayden Myers
>green day potentially considered dadrock ….oh my god
I genuinely barely know any songs by them. I only know Time of your life My ex loved Brainstew My cousin used to listen to whatsername. Do they even have good songs?
Grayson James
Dude, chill out. I obviously know what the opinions of the band members are, they're pot addicts from the East Bay, of course they're gonna be leftist fags. But there's just something about this album thematically that, out of it's original context, can be interpreted in a way that resonates with young white men in America today. Alienation in society, being institutionally disenfranchised and discarded, How degeneracy and vice can destroy you, How the cities are dark and evil places, etc.
Adam Wilson
"when i come around" and "basket case" imo.
Kayden King
>How degeneracy and vice can destroy you Every single super successful band/rockstar will eventually sing about this. It’s why they started the band. They fuck 18 year olds every single day and have the best coke/dope connections on earth. They never quit, they just write about how le bad it is and how le evil it is so you, the consoomer, can be like “oh my god he’s right”. You are a faggot, get this shit thread off Any Forums and listen to better music you basic bitch nigger lover.
Anthony Allen
>Hollywood promotes anti-degeneracy (apparently) wtf I love Hollywood now
Nathan Rivera
It’s a great fucking album, and for anyone in here that will say I have bad taste in music—I probably do. I’m open to suggestions for an album that does a better job deconstructing modern day america. Give me lyrics That better channel your angst and rage at the modern world than: >where will all the martyrs go when the virus cures itself I would love to get some new music out of your cynics
Benjamin Cooper
Green Day? More like Green Gay. Not listening to that shit, gotta go with some Pantera bro. RIP Darrell Bros..
Nathaniel Moore
My personal favorite lyric on the album has to be in the verse to "She's a Rebel" >"She's a rebel, she's a saint, she's the salt of the earth and she's dangerous" That in my mind really illustrates the transformation of the normal and good into the new counterculture.
Asher Garcia
This has to be vaush faggots thinking this is funny. You homos aren’t actually listening to music written for 14 year old girls 20 years ago are you?
Dylan Wood
If pantera was so good dime wouldn’t have gotten shot, Vinny would’ve stopped being a fatass, and Phil wouldn’t have left halfway in their career to form Down (which is 10000000x better)
Adam Taylor
Best overall lyric will always be >in a land of make believe that don’t believe in me. Maybe the most important song of my life. Idk man, shit influenced me into rising above left/right politics and not caring about the system as a whole. There’s a documentary on how it was made—I’m phone posting so I’m not going to close out this tab to look up the name, but you should be able to find it relatively easily.
Mason Reyes
Man I would love to have an honest thread about songs that have meaning to you and your political beliefs/world view, and I’ve provided an example of my own. You can call me a faggot 4 more times if you want, I’m just genuinely curious if there’s something that hits closer to the mark. I have Spotify going right now, just throw a song out and I’ll listen and respond in like, 7 minutes? Idk why your so agro over this just reco some fucking tunes.
