Huh? It is one of their all time most popular songs in America. Same with Holiday, which is a protest song about the American invasion of Iraq. It would be unexpected if they didn't play one of these...
Given the political climate of America right now? I'm still giving them props for having the balls to come here, knowing ICE is all over it and playing an anti-america song. The only thing that couldve made it better is a RATM guest during that or the halftime show.
The current political climate in the USA is Trump being booed by crowds at public events and MAGA being roasted regularly by comedians on cable TV or massively popular shows like South Park. His political party is in a panicked crisis over upcoming midterm elections that they are certain to lose across the nation, and Trump is polling at his lowest ever approval ratings.
Green Day playing one of their most popular songs to an audience even more receptive to its message than when it was written is not very surprising. Like... it's literally their 2nd most played song on Spotify...
Also what do you mean by Canadian? Green Day is an American band who's members are from California
I looked it up, Wikipedia says that all the members are American. Edit: I wrote the complete wrong word. I said that they were Canadian instead of American. I was watching something while I was writing, should've paid more attention, mb.
And Tre was only born in Germany, and I'd bet my Lederhosen, that had something to do with the US military presence here [in Germany]. He grew up in the US though, and even though he may be not eligible to become president, he's just as American as the rest of the bunch.
More like a group of birds "they're Californian" over and over. I wish people would read the full thread before replying, so if you make a mistake you don't have 40 lemmings saying the same fucking thing over and over.
If you don't like it, you should have edited your posts as soon as you found out they weren't Canadian. It's now what, a day since you posted that they were Canadian here, then doubled down on that here, and you still have yet to edit either of those posts to indicate you now realize you were wrong.
Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt were born in Oakland, California. Frank Edwin Wright III (Tre Cool) was born in West Germany, because his father was a US Army pilot, they relocated to California. The band was formed in the Bay Area. There really isn't anything about the band that's Canadian.
Jesus fucking Christ read further before you reply. I get it. They're mostly from California. For some reason I thought they were from Canada. I was wrong.
They not only avoided saying anything about what's going on in this country, they skipped all the pointed parts of their songs. Seriously disappointed.
Tbf that fits better than "redneck," after using the similarly sounding preceding no-no word, but I'm assuming they've also trimmed that from the song now themselves.
Also "Green Day plays what is sadly, but undoubtedly, their biggest song ever at the Superbowl." Like yeah duh. I know I know I agree it should be Going To Pasalacqua but I'm apparently the only person on earth who prefers 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours to, well, everything they did after that (Dookie and Kerplunk were great too, in that order, but after that it's one or two good songs at best per album. Like to the degree I think I like Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network better than "Green Day" proper post-Dookie). But of course they played that and not Disappearing Boy.
At the end of the day they are just musicians. Sure, they can write some catchy edgy songs, but they aren't philosophers or leaders, and we shouldn't expect that from them.
::: spoiler Lyrics
.
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria
The subliminal mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
🎶
Maybe I am the f a g g o t
America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
🎵
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
:::
http://www.greenday.net/ailyrics.html
.
"Sir, they hate America and are leftist terrorists who should be arrested by DHS, very strongly." All you do is just keep repeating that. He won't remember what you said five minutes ago.
I mean they are white so he probably thinks that its about all the people hating on I.C.E. In other news billy looked old...which means I might be old now..oh dear god.
They've changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.
I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I'm impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.
Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.
I know there has been some disappointment that they didn't go as hard in protest as they could have, but as a white man coming into my own understanding of privilege and platforming the voice of others, I wonder if it was intentional so that Bad Bunny's message would be heard louder. What are your thoughts?
Run the Jewels is amazing protest music for something recent, Rage Against the Machine is like, THE name in protest music, and they came out in the 90s. And they're still out here.
I dunno, that certainly could be the case. But it also could be that they didn't want to push their luck with ice being there. But it's something I'm sure an interviewer would ask.
Hear the drum pounding out of time
Another protester has crossed the line (Hey!)
To find the money's on the other side
Can I get another Amen? (Amen!)
There's a flag wrapped around a score of men (Hey!)
A gag, a plastic bag on a monument
I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies
This is the dawning of the rest of our lives
On holiday! (Hey!)
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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 177 pts · 208d
The people who this is directed at, won’t understand it’s about them.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 208d
Fair, but being Canadians in America, that takes stones big enough that atlas couldn't push.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 208d
Huh? It is one of their all time most popular songs in America. Same with Holiday, which is a protest song about the American invasion of Iraq. It would be unexpected if they didn't play one of these...
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 208d
Given the political climate of America right now? I'm still giving them props for having the balls to come here, knowing ICE is all over it and playing an anti-america song. The only thing that couldve made it better is a RATM guest during that or the halftime show.
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 208d
The current political climate in the USA is Trump being booed by crowds at public events and MAGA being roasted regularly by comedians on cable TV or massively popular shows like South Park. His political party is in a panicked crisis over upcoming midterm elections that they are certain to lose across the nation, and Trump is polling at his lowest ever approval ratings.
Green Day playing one of their most popular songs to an audience even more receptive to its message than when it was written is not very surprising. Like... it's literally their 2nd most played song on Spotify...
Also what do you mean by Canadian? Green Day is an American band who's members are from California
French75@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 207d
They didn't come here; they're from here.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 10 pts · 207d
they're from Oakland, CA
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 208d
Most of the ones it could or would cause issues with just think it's a popular song or unrelated to anything happening.
Would be completely different if a brand new song but conservatives just think it's a fun song or about Iraq
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 13 pts · 208d
Are you saying that Green Day is Canadian? Or?
ThePantser@sh.itjust.works · -15 pts · 208d
They are Canadian
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 16 pts · 208d
I looked it up, Wikipedia says that all the members are American. Edit: I wrote the complete wrong word. I said that they were Canadian instead of American. I was watching something while I was writing, should've paid more attention, mb.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 208d
Can't tell if you're serious, but none of them are Canadian. 2 are from Oakland, CA and one is from Germany.
Edit: Just read usernames, not serious, oops.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 208d
Oakland Canadifornia I guess. It's just down the road from my igloo in Vancouver.
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 8 pts · 208d
I was serious, I wrote the wrong nationality like a dumbass. I'm fucking stupid lmao
SpongyAneurysm@feddit.org · 3 pts · 207d
And Tre was only born in Germany, and I'd bet my Lederhosen, that had something to do with the US military presence here [in Germany]. He grew up in the US though, and even though he may be not eligible to become president, he's just as American as the rest of the bunch.
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 207d
Was it Weird Al's "Canadian Idiot" by any chance?
FerretyFever0@fedia.io · 1 pts · 207d
Unfortunately not, it was something much less delightful.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 207d
they are Californian
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 207d
No, they are not.
IntrovertTurtle@lemmy.zip · 11 pts · 208d
Who's Canadian? 2 of them are from California, one is from Germany.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 207d
This thread sounds like a lunch conversation over at ICE.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · -3 pts · 207d
More like a group of birds "they're Californian" over and over. I wish people would read the full thread before replying, so if you make a mistake you don't have 40 lemmings saying the same fucking thing over and over.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 206d
If you don't like it, you should have edited your posts as soon as you found out they weren't Canadian. It's now what, a day since you posted that they were Canadian here, then doubled down on that here, and you still have yet to edit either of those posts to indicate you now realize you were wrong.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 206d
Damn, I dunno why but I hadn't thought to edit it. I'll remember that next time I'm wrong. Thanks.
teslekova@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 206d
RAAAAARK
emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 207d
Green Day have always been American... Their whole thing was that not all meth head trailer people have to have a 'redneck' mentality.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 207d
Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt were born in Oakland, California. Frank Edwin Wright III (Tre Cool) was born in West Germany, because his father was a US Army pilot, they relocated to California. The band was formed in the Bay Area. There really isn't anything about the band that's Canadian.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · -6 pts · 207d
Jesus fucking Christ read further before you reply. I get it. They're mostly from California. For some reason I thought they were from Canada. I was wrong.
merc@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 207d
Sounds like you're the one who should read further.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 207d
no this is real now california is canada now no takesbacksies y'all canadiennes are stuck with us nyeh nyeh
hesh@quokk.au · 53 pts · 208d
They not only avoided saying anything about what's going on in this country, they skipped all the pointed parts of their songs. Seriously disappointed.
Psythik@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 207d
"I'm not a part of a MAGA agenda" got censored too... :/
PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 207d
It didn't even get bleeped, they skipped that verse entirely :(
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 207d
Tbf that fits better than "redneck," after using the similarly sounding preceding no-no word, but I'm assuming they've also trimmed that from the song now themselves.
Also "Green Day plays what is sadly, but undoubtedly, their biggest song ever at the Superbowl." Like yeah duh. I know I know I agree it should be Going To Pasalacqua but I'm apparently the only person on earth who prefers 1,039 Smoothed Out Slappy Hours to, well, everything they did after that (Dookie and Kerplunk were great too, in that order, but after that it's one or two good songs at best per album. Like to the degree I think I like Foxboro Hot Tubs and The Network better than "Green Day" proper post-Dookie). But of course they played that and not Disappearing Boy.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 207d
Patrick Bateman, is that you?
prettybunnys@piefed.social · 2 pts · 207d
Green Day has enjoyed pretending to be counter culture for decades.
There is a reason it was Green Day, they’re effectively “the man” at this point.
They were edgy by saying fuck. Ooooooooh
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 207d
At the end of the day they are just musicians. Sure, they can write some catchy edgy songs, but they aren't philosophers or leaders, and we shouldn't expect that from them.
hesh@quokk.au · 3 pts · 207d
I don't expect it from Sabrina Carpenter. I do expect it from a band that calls themselves punk. And this is exactly the time I expect it from them.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 207d
Well, all due respect to Green Day, but I don't consider them punk, so maybe that's why I didn't expect much. Is there such a thing as pop-punk?
Edit: do they really call themselves a punk band?
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 207d
Yeah pop punk was huge in the aughts. Green Day started with more of an edge but they are certainly pop punk now.
A_A@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 208d
American Idiot
::: spoiler Lyrics .
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria
The subliminal mind fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
🎶
Maybe I am the f a g g o t
America I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
🎵
Don't want to be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
Calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
::: http://www.greenday.net/ailyrics.html
.
LostGhost@piefed.social · 40 pts · 208d
Good for them although I'm not super surprised it's one of their more popular songs.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 208d
Fair but at the Superbowl? I'm surprised Trump hasn't already posted an angry rant about it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 208d
He probably stroked out and had amnesia
NarrativeBear@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 208d
The irony was lost on the crowd and I am sure someone will need to explain it to the Orange Turd
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 208d
Can you imagine navigating the fog of trying to explain something to trump?
HaveAnotherTacoPDX@lemmy.today · 3 pts · 207d
"Sir, they hate America and are leftist terrorists who should be arrested by DHS, very strongly." All you do is just keep repeating that. He won't remember what you said five minutes ago.
LostGhost@piefed.social · 8 pts · 207d
I mean they are white so he probably thinks that its about all the people hating on I.C.E. In other news billy looked old...which means I might be old now..oh dear god.
goferking0@lemmy.sdf.org · 14 pts · 208d
Yeah at this point it's just a popular song. Those it's aimed at aren't able to pick up on it or can't understand what it's about
phar@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 208d
I'm disappointed they skipped the most important lyric of the current situation.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
I'm assuming the line before was the reason they skipped that part.
TheMinions@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 18 pts · 208d
Did they change the lyrics? I was trying to listen but was a noisy environment at my house.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 208d
No, they didn't do the MAGA agenda bit.
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 208d
That's disappointing
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 208d
Agreed, but still big brass balls.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 7 pts · 208d
Maga heads would have exploded a la Mars Attacks
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 208d
That'd be a beautiful moment but I'm picturing more of a Kingsman ending.
whereIsTamara@lemmy.org · 8 pts · 208d
They would sing along having no idea it was making fun of them.
agingelderly@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 208d
Lol they'd turn it into their anthem
VoteNixon2016@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 207d
Put it up there with "Fortunate Son" and "Born in the U.S.A."
SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 207d
Maga agenda? Isn't the lyric "redneck agenda"?
cabbage@piefed.social · 11 pts · 207d
They've changed it in recent years, apparently changed it back for the half time show.
I suspect a lot of things would have been said had the artists been allowed to say what they wanted. I'm impressed and disappointed by their professionalism.
Then again, within the constraints of not saying anything political, it seems both Bad Bunny and Green Day did a decent job getting their points across.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
like many popular songs by bands that have continued performing over decades, lyrics evolve.
point in case
also i think i just solved the louvre robbery it was totally takeo ischi
Psythik@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 207d
To me it sounded like they did but the audio was censored.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
They censored the word "mindfuck."
Psythik@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
I know but they censored that too.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 207d
Which ironically makes Green Day American Idiots.
cannedtuna@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 208d
Unfortunately no, I was hoping for a direct call out too
joshfaulkner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 207d
I know there has been some disappointment that they didn't go as hard in protest as they could have, but as a white man coming into my own understanding of privilege and platforming the voice of others, I wonder if it was intentional so that Bad Bunny's message would be heard louder. What are your thoughts?
ameancow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d
MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 207d
Run the Jewels is amazing protest music for something recent, Rage Against the Machine is like, THE name in protest music, and they came out in the 90s. And they're still out here.
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 207d
I dunno, that certainly could be the case. But it also could be that they didn't want to push their luck with ice being there. But it's something I'm sure an interviewer would ask.
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 207d
Holiday would also have been a good choice.
frostysauce@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 207d
They actually opened with that one!
rizzothesmall@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 207d
Oh awesome 😎
NotSteve_@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 207d
I saw them at a festival in Ottawa, Canada last summer and they opened with that song! They also did do the MAGA agenda version of the song then
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 207d
I watched the Super Bowl and did not see Green Day. Wtf is everyone talking about?
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 206d
It was before the coin flip.
ScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 206d
Ohhhhhh.
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 206d
Ertain@mast.linuxgamecast.com · 0 pts · 206d
@P00ptart They did?! I would think that, with all the Super Bowl crap I've heard, I would have learned this.