"Go to TM's America!
I'm going to give up my U.S. citizenship!
There are so many stupid things in the world!
I won't go back to that sad country again! ”
On June 24, Green Day lead singer Billie Joe made the above remarks at a concert in London.
He renounced his American citizenship in a sad, angry, and hysterical way to protest the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to repeal the Constitution's protection of women's abortion rights.
No one knows how many "f**kings" he brought in his speech, after all, Billie Joe is a master of explosive foul language even in punk bands known for their rebellion and arbitrariness.
Just a day later, on the 25th, Billie Eilish took to Glastonbury, Britain's largest music festival, and spoke out for the injustice of "the US Supreme Court's abolition of constitutional abortion rights". "Today is the darkest day in the history of women in the United States," she said. Then sang the song "Your Power" in protest.
Before singing "Your Power," Billie Elish said, "Today is the darkest day in the history of Women in America, because at this moment I really can't bear to think about it anymore, and the song is an expression." ”
Compared with Pear's storytelling, the once influential punk top green sun band is indeed more vivid and direct, which is also the reason why punk is sought after by some crazy fans.
Billie Joe, who is no longer young, remains energetic on stage, perhaps thanks to punk music, and he continues to lash out at the government at concerts, as he once accused Trump of "taking half americans hostage" and accusing "a hundred fascists."
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Nearly 20 years ago, his band Green Sun even released an album called "American Idiots" that attacked the actions of then-President George W. Bush.
The album was a huge success, becoming one of Green Day's highest-rated works and was even later adapted into an opera. At the 47th Annual Grammy Awards, "American Idiot" won the Best Rock Album Award and was nominated for Album of the Year.
Some critics described it as "the peak of punk and the last glory, the first movement of punk, the melody is popular and wonderful, the three pieces are both hardcore and gentle, and the predecessors and queens are cliche and packaged, punk is really only one specialty." After that, ambitions swelled with length, quality effects shrank, and punk did not talk about politics, that is, experts.
There is a widely sung song in "American Idiot", which also shows the delicate and affectionate side of this punk band, and is also a rare anti-war classic in the history of rock and roll, which Chinese listeners call "sleep until National Day".
Billy Joe, then 10, transferred to a new school before fifth grade and met his future bandmate Mike, whose father died of esophageal cancer. He wrote a song in memory of his mother and five siblings as his family also endured the grief of losing "an extremely important soul in our family."
The song, Wake Me Up When September Ends, marks The month of September as a month of death and rebirth, loss and perk. Released on August 31, 2005, the song provided a lot of comfort to the victims of Hurricane Katrina that year and the 9/11 terrorist attacks four years earlier.
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Green Day was one of the leading players in the "punk revival" movement of the 90s. The bands at the time included Weezer, Blink-182, Sum41, Rancid, the Offspring, Nofx, and more. Green Day is one of the most well-known and commercially successful bands, so much so that it has become the face of "punk" in the public mind.
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This group of punk bands that value melody is called Pop Punk, or "melodic hardcore", or New School Punk, and has influenced a group of Japanese bands such as ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION, STRAIGHTENER, ELLEGARDEN, Good 4 Nothing, One OK Rock, etc. Oh yes, the new pants Flower Dada Reflector is also a band influenced by this trend.
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This is a review from a veteran punk fan.
As one of the enlightenment bands of many punk fans in China, Green Day has contributed many classic works, such as "21 Guns", "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "know your enemy" and other songs, which have successfully made a punk band gain attention from the mainstream music industry.
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At the iHeartRadio Festival on September 22, 2012, ushers were delayed by half an hour before the green day, and the organizers had to compress the performance time of the green day, and counted down on the display, and when the song was sung to "basket case", it showed that there was only 1 minute of performance time left.
This made Billie Joe feel so disrespected that he had only 1 minute left and couldn't finish singing, so BJ said, I don't want to sing this, I want to sing something new. Let me (f-start words, fans should know BJ's grumpy temper) to tell you something, I started singing on stage since 1988 (the f-opening word omits countless words), and you only give us a minute? You must be telling me a joke! "So I smashed the guitar on the spot...
It was just a small episode in Billie Joe's long stage career. No artist will swallow the inexplicable injustice, let alone a group of grumpy punk youth. Like Billie Joe's claim to the media, "I'm not just Justin Bieber of TM," his remarks are bound to be met with a lot of controversy as they gain popularity.
Someone described Green Day as "Who are you TM?" An old junk punk band? ”。
Billie Joe only apologizes for his excesses after the fact, avoiding potentially hurtful imitations, but never apologizes for his point of view because he feels it's right, but there are always idiots who are silent and indifferent.
Then, in the subsequent performances, he continued to repeat the foul-mouthed speeches and exaggerated manners.
All indications are that Billie Joe is a true punk.
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Some cold facts about green days.
In 1989, founding members lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt were both just 15 years old when they formed Green day. Therefore, Da Zhang Wei said that the Flower Band debuted with the ideal of "Heavenly Dynasty Green Day".
In fact, when they were 14 years old, in 1988, they formed the predecessor of Green Day, Sweet Children. In 1989, the band recruited drummer al sobrante, officially renamed "Green Day".
Billie Joe talks about touching the guitar for the first time: "Country is impossible to be rural, and punk's favorite style before was metal. ”
Johnny Rotten of Sex Pistols once commented that he didn't think Green Day actually took off.
Walmart refused to sell their fifth album, American Idiot, on mainstream companies because of some lyrical content, and Green day refused to release a censored version for the store in defiance.
Billie Joe's father, Andy Armstrong, is a truck driver and drummer.
Billie Joe once sold his tavern for two dollars and went to play the band.
Billie Joe never thought he could be the lead singer until his teammates said you were no one else.
One of Billie Joe's most shocking experiences was seeing an R.E.M guitarist smash the piano on stage.
Green Day members were all born in 1972.
The Green Day members are all 50 years old and the band is 33 years old.
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34 years later, Billie Joe, now 50 years old, can't see on stage that he is more than half a hundred years old. He still has a dirty word for every sentence, still fluffy and messy hair, still a smoky face, still straight-talking about anything he doesn't like...
Perhaps the punk era is long gone, but anger and blood have long been carved into the genes of Green Day and every punk fan as a legacy of punk.
Because of this, Billie Joe is still a teenager and will always be young.