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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 486 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

When idiots realize American Idiot is actually about them.

[-] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 34 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Haha yup. Punk, that famously neutral musical genre.

Gotta live how green day produced an album in 2004 about how destructive Bush was as a president, yet idiots think they are apolitocal somehow.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 405 points 10 months ago

How dare Green Day do the exact thing you would expect Green Day to do if you knew the first thing about Green Day!

[-] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 174 points 10 months ago
[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 32 points 10 months ago

It's so fucking stupid. I'm not a big fan of either Green Day or RATM's music (nothing wrong with it, it's just not my thing), but I don't live under a rock. I've actually heard of the existence of American Idiot because I've been a warm body in America since 1977.

When someone like me who would rather listen to 1930s and 40s music knows enough about Green Day to not even bat an eye hearing this, these people are just drooling imbeciles. But then everyone here already knew that.

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[-] bmsok@lemmy.world 115 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Billie Joe never holds back.

"Get up here numbnuts, I'll fight you right now"

dropkicks the pervert for molesting a fan

https://youtu.be/q4KrfrKcmSE?si=0UPc9TEHARmUbIbO

[-] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago
[-] bmsok@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago

American Idiot's commentary is rooted deep within the band. Minority is probably my favorite Green Day song... 'She' is a close second. The lyrics are incredible.

https://youtu.be/cDBlqu6KF4k?si=ZC0AfvoqZHOCPJa9

https://youtu.be/cXGSKEjR6_U?si=NdDkxO1VoSlGL_EU

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[-] aseriesoftubes@lemmy.world 313 points 10 months ago

Aww, did the “fuck your feelings” crowd get their little feelings hurt? Who are the snowflakes again?

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 52 points 10 months ago

There is no "me" in "your feelings". So they will never get it.

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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 293 points 10 months ago

If conservatives want to listen to music that echos what they hear in Murdoch media outlets, they might want to avoid punk. Also, hip hop and rap. Probably also want to avoid, metal, classic rock, folk, indie, jazz, and EDM. Best to just avoid cool, formerly cool, and or cool adjacent music.

You should be generally safe with pop country, Christian rock, and post-00’s butt rock.

[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 124 points 10 months ago

Don't worry, conservatives still have Kid Rock, that dude from Staind, Gene Simmons, and Ted "shit himself to avoid the draft" Nugent. Truly the best of the best, huh?

[-] Leviathan@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

He already said avoid cool music. You didn't have to illustrate it further.

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[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 92 points 10 months ago

My conservative, Trump supporting uncle listens to Bob Dylan and Neil Young and doesn't see the irony

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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I remember back in the mid 2000s when they latched on to the Dixie Chicks' pop country music as being 'wholesome conservative music'. And then their very vocal rage when the Dixie Chicks publicly dissed W.

That was pretty funny. Not quite on a level of 'freedom fries' funny, or 'buying expensive French wine only to pour it down the drain in protest' funny. But it wasn't too far off.

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[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

You know, I just realized that Hitler failing to get into art school is so much deeper of a joke than I realized.

Dude was an authoritarian. Artists are pretty universally anti authority. You could say it was his lack of skill to get into art school, or his education, or a whole bunch of things. Or you can say Hilter was already anti-artist, why would an art school educate that?

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[-] Jimmyeatsausage@lemmy.world 255 points 10 months ago

From the people that brought you, "I liked RATM before they got all political"

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 168 points 10 months ago

oH My GoD ThEy sHoUlDnT Be PolitIcaL like ThaT!

Hey maga people, remember when you were really concerned about free speech and people being canceled for “just voicing their opinion”?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[-] Yokozuna@lemmy.world 34 points 10 months ago

It's never about freedom of speech, it's about freedom of their speech and only theirs.

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[-] ZeroCool@slrpnk.net 132 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

*Green Day does Green Day thing*

White Supremacist MAGAts:

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[-] CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 123 points 10 months ago

Okay how about we stop calling it a meltdown and start calling it a temper tantrum just like the ones toddlers throw. The solution for both is the same, putting them in a corner and ignoring them until they act like reasonable people while the adults keep things running

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 37 points 10 months ago

Isn't meltdown just the modern term for a temper tantrum?

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[-] 0110010001100010@lemmy.world 117 points 10 months ago

lol, fucking snowflakes getting upset over the tiniest of things.

[-] Nacktmull@lemmy.world 104 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

What "Machine" did you think he was raging against? The dishwasher?

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[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 93 points 10 months ago

Did they expect Green Day to be pro-fascism?

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[-] TechyDad@lemmy.world 91 points 10 months ago

That's okay. They can still sing "Born in the USA" because that song is super-patriotic and not critical of America at all.

Oh, wait....

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[-] TheEighthDoctor@lemmy.world 88 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

He's the one who likes all our pretty songs And he likes to sing along and he likes to shoot his gun But he don't know what it means

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[-] melisdrawing@lemmy.world 82 points 10 months ago

At this point it is remarkably refreshing to see a childhood hero still be based. Feels like a breath of reality in a stuffy box of hypocrisy and pretension.

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[-] VelvetStorm@lemmy.world 81 points 10 months ago

What's next are they going to complain a second time about rage against the machine?

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[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 77 points 10 months ago

American Idiot is the millennials' Fortunate Son

[-] Witchfire@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

Gosh, when did American Idiot become about politics? /S

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[-] MermaidsGarden@lemmy.world 74 points 10 months ago

Politics? In my political rock opera?

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[-] Snapz@lemmy.world 73 points 10 months ago

Who gives a shit, they are professional victims.

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

I think for the Trump supporter delusion to work, it generally has to include the assumption that they're in the majority. "The Silent Majority(tm)" and all that. Which is probably part of why they get so butthurt when a public figure tells them to go fuck themselves.

[-] TheJims@lemmy.world 42 points 10 months ago

I’ve always found it amusing that the loudest assholes in the world consider themselves silent.

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[-] ohlaph@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago

Snowflakes melt, so it makes sense.

[-] ElBarto@sh.itjust.works 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Not a single ounce of self awareness in that group.... Won't be long till these Maga Snowflakes are screaming for safe spaces away from the liberal agender.

Facts don't care about your feelings snowflake! Here you can have the participation trophies you give us when we were young, I think you need them more.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago

Green Day is anti-MAGA?!?

I’m shocked, just terribly shocked… /s

[-] dantheclamman@lemmy.world 65 points 10 months ago

These people have no idea what their music is about, it seems. I normally have trouble understanding lyrics and have to look them up, but Green Day's are pretty straightforward

[-] Roastchicken@lemmy.world 54 points 10 months ago

Don′t wanna be an American idiot Don't want a nation under the new media And can you hear the sound of hysteria

I don't know It's pretty vague /s

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[-] oxjox@lemmy.ml 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

...when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance. The original line is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.”

So you were all okay with "redneck"? Are the rednecks offended by being associated with MAGA? What would be the reaction if some country singer sang "I'm not part of the woke agenda"?

Ugh. Ya know... the reality is that news outlets, Rolling Stone in this case, need to generate attention just as much as the outraged Trump supporters. I have to wonder if us normies are suckers. Why do we fall prey to the need to comment on something so irrelevant?

Edit: So, I just listened to and read the lyrics for American Idiot (it’s been a while and I wasn’t ever all that into Green Day). I hadn’t realized how on-point my comment was. It’s literally about the media manipulating us. Man, what a great song and meta article.

Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America

Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alienation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
In television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue

Well, maybe I'm the removed, America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody, do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 46 points 10 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Green Day took the stage during ABC’s broadcast of Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest and used the opportunity to call out Trump supporters by changing the lyrics to their 2004 hit “American Idiot.”

Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong drew cheers from the live audience when he sang out, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda” during his performance.

Many of them took to Twitter to bash the band and accuse them of being part of the “propaganda machine.” “Sad, they are irrelevant and get a chance to play and use it poorly.

During the band’s tour back in 2017, Armstrong would shout “Fuck you, Trump!” before launching into “American Idiot.”

“There are a lot of people in the quote, unquote red states that get a big sense of relief when I say something like ‘Fuck you, Trump.’ That’s because they’re in the minority where they live and at our shows they get this sort of release,” he continued.

Dick Clark Productions, which produces New Year’s Rockin’ Eve,  is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between PMC and Eldrige.


The original article contains 382 words, the summary contains 180 words. Saved 53%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[-] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Cult of covfefe gets triggered? I'm all for it.

[-] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's not the right time to be sober

Now, the idiots have taken over

Spreading like a social cancer, is there an answer?

Mensa membership conceding

Tell me why and how are all the stupid people breeding?

Watson, it's really elementary

Industrial revolution

Has flipped the bitch on evolution

The benevolent and wise are being thwarted, ostracized What a bummer

The world keeps getting dumber

Insensitivity is standard

And faith is being fancied over reason

Darwin's rolling over in his coffin

The fittest are surviving much less often

Now, everything seems to be reversing, and it's worsening

(guitar riff)

Someone flopped a steamer in the gene pool

Now, angry mob mentality is no longer the exception, it's the rule

And I'm startin' to feel a lot like

Charlton Heston

Stranded on a primate planet

Apes and orangutans that ran it to the ground

With generals and the armies that obeyed them

Followers following fables

Philosophies that enable them to rule without regard

There's no point for democracy when ignorance is celebrated

Political scientists get the same one vote as some Arkansas inbred

Majority rule, don't work in mental institutions

Sometimes, the smallest softest voice carries the grand

BIGGEST SOLUTIONS

What are we left with?

A nation of god-fearing pregnant nationalists

Who feel it's their duty to populate the homeland

Pass on traditions

How to get ahead religions

And prosperity via simpleton culture (ah-)

The idiots are taking over

The idiots are taking over

  • Fat Mike
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[-] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago

Oh, no!

Did their feelings get hurt?

That's just a shame, if it keeps going like this anyone that acts like an antisocial asshole could be criticized for it, too.

It's a slippery slope, y'all /s

[-] lennybird@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Tangential point but I do wonder how much of an effect Taylor Swift will have on voter turnout this year.

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[-] crsu@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

When don't they have a meltdown?

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