#american idiot

[littleboynamedplatypus]

#green day #American idiot #happy new years

[notahorseindisguise]

god this is embarrassing imagine saying this. imagine saying these words in that order. imagine thinking that thats an own. i genuinely cannot think of a more succinct way of saying "ive never listened to a single green day song before" elon did you really think you were the good guy in american idiot. are you kidding me. kill yourself

#green day #american idiot #maga agenda #billie joe armstrong

[ofalltheginjoints]

available on redbubble

#brainrot #friend asked me to make a lil sticker for em and this was one of the designs #and i liked this one soo #anyway hopefully greenday/redbubble doesn't take it down #green day #american idiot

[roscoe-me-and-this-fuckin-kid]

anyone else part of the faggot america or is it just me and those guys from green day?

#fun fact: all terfs die a painful death when they look at this post #terfs fuck off and die #tw f slur #american idiot #green day #billie joe armstrong #billie joe green day #billie joe #tre cool #mike dirnt #dookie #nimrod #21 guns #hella mega tour #fall out boy #fob #weezer #bicon #gay #bisexual #queer #lgbt #lgbtq

[tiktoksinspo]

#omg #perfect #masterpiece #I love this #cat #cat lovers #damn #I love him #nice #funny #comedy #accurate #cute #music #american idiot #beautiful #wow #tiktok #@thatcatbobbie

[goonssquadd]

Black red and white 2004 American rock concept album save me

#goons says #mcr #three cheers for sweet revenge #Green Day #American idiot #I think if you went down to a cellular level these would be encoded in my cells somehow

[pinockv]

Faggot ☺️

#billie joe green day #green day #mike dirnt #uno dos tre #tre cool #billie joe #billie joe armstrong #the american dream is killing me #american idiot #21 guns #punk music #post punk #pop punk #punk rock #punk #mcr #alternative rock #rock #rock music

[animentality]

#twitter #rage against the machine #punk #american idiot #green day

[mcroutfits]

100000/10 overflown by drip swag and whatever: billie joe wearing the revenge zip up hoodie

#my baby #there was something in the water in 2005 #my chemical romance #mcr #mcr tumblr #my chemical fucking romance #mcrblr #mcr revenge era #revenge era #three cheers for sweet revenge #billie joe armstrong #billie joe green day #green day #american idiot #american idiot era #2005

[edenexxe]

#has this been made yet #green day #american idiot #billie joe armstrong #mike dirnt #tre cool

[x-poblo-x]

April Adness Part 3C

#green day #american idiot #my chemical romance #mcr #i brought you my bullets you brought me your love #poll #polls

[trecoolsdick]

GREEN DAY IS SELLING A NIMROD ANNIVERSARY T SHIRT WITH TRUMPS MUGSHOT ON IT. THIS IS NOT A DRILL. SELLING FAST FUCKERS

(and yes i did preorder one)

#green day #billie joe armstrong #tre cool #mike dirnt #tré cool #idiot nation #American idiot #nimrod #fuck trump #Donald trump #trump arrest

[smashing-yng-man]

#green day #billie joe armstrong #music #MAGA #donald trump #politics #us politics #2024 #punk #pop punk #punk rock #american idiot

[yourfavealbumisgender]

American Idiot by Green Day is Bisexual!

requested by @therampenthomosexual and @deimosbreakfrost

#request #album #american idiot #bisexual #bi #green day #billie joe armstrong #tre cool #mike dirnt #punk rock #pop punk #alternative rock #2004

[whereserpentswalk]

Your not part of faggot America? OwO then I'm afraid that means you're part of the redneck agenda.

#196 #my thougts #leftism #leftist #reclaimed slurs #f slur #discourse #green day #american idiot #shitposting #shitpost

[dev-solovey]

Reading up on the history of American Idiot (album) and realizing exactly how revolutionary it was and I just have to yell about it for a hot second

So, before they started working on American Idiot, the band was having problems and they were thinking they were going to break up. But for a couple of reasons, they switched directions, most notably because they all felt strongly about the Iraq War and how it was manufactured by greed and warmongering from the Bush administration, which was amplified by the news media. I read a quote from Billie Joe Armstrong where he talked about how the news media was becoming "more of a reality show" than it was news, and he couldn't have been more right. In fact, that problem got worse, and now we're living in an era of rampant misinformation where everything is politicized to a point where just supporting human rights for marginalized people is considered controversial. The song American Idiot came out in 2004, and when Donald Trump first visited the UK at the beginning of his presidency, it was the top played song on every UK radio station, 12 years after it was released. Most things would be culturally irrelevant at that point.

When creating the album American Idiot, a lot of thought went into it - they had a very specific message in mind, and their goal was to send that message to youth. This is because they realized at some point that their fanbase was a bunch of teenagers, and even though they hadn't necessarily intended it that way, they suddenly had a platform with the youth of America and they decided they ought to do something good with it. The drummer, Tré Cool, said something along the lines of "I've never really liked the idea of preaching to kids, but I realized we don't really have a choice at this point." And I love that so much because like, so many people who get rich and famous just become completely out of touch, and when they get a platform, it's very easy to exploit that platform, influence them with terrible ideas, or encourage them to act in terrible ways for self-serving reasons (ex: JK Rowling, Andrew Tate, Dream, Logan Paul, Onision, etc etc). Green Day refused to allow themselves to get to that point. They know the platform they had gave them power and they made an active choice early on to be responsible with it. And a lot of that moral code comes from the fact that they came up in the DIY punk scene in Oakland, which held its members to a very high standard of ethics, a code that they still follow even after they were disowned by that scene when they signed on with a major record label in 1994.

The song American Idiot has a message of "this mass media hysteria is manufactured bullshit, don't fall for it," and it is not subtle about that message. It punches you right in the face. I remember being 12 years old and listening to it and thinking, "yeah, I don't want to be an American idiot." And now, at the age of 28, I am a staunch leftist who is firmly against the atrocities the US government commits, and I feel strongly about stopping misinformation. So I can say with absolute certainty that they succeeded.

I also get like, really upset when people say that American Idiot is the album where they sold out, because that's objectively not true, both for the reasons I've provided above, and also because of the song Wake Me Up When September Ends. Not a lot of people know the story behind this song, but it's actually a song that Billie Joe wrote about the experience of his dad dying of cancer when he was 10 years old. The story, as he tells it, is that when he came home from school, his mom gave him the news, and being (understandably!) upset, started crying, ran to his room and slammed the door. When she knocked on the door to try and talk to him, he shouted "wake me up when September ends!!" in response. It took him decades to be able to write this song, and it shows because it's the perfect grief song, having been played at benefits for 9/11, hurricane Katrina, and so on. The first time I heard that song it reduced me to tears, because you can hear the intense sadness in it. A "sellout" would never write a song like that!! (Side note: maybe stop tweeting at Green Day to wake up every October 1st, it's super tone deaf given the subject matter,,,)

Anyway, I think I'm done being autistic about Green Day (that's a lie, they'll forever be my special interest), so TL;DR:

Thank you, Green Day, for creating a generation of leftists who aren't about the bullshit

#green day #American idiot #wake me up when september ends #billy joe armstrong #tre cool #mike dirnt #iraq war #bush administration #misinformation #i will die on this fucking hill