I’m so proud of em, haha!
@P00ptart They did?! I would think that, with all the Super Bowl crap I’ve heard, I would have learned this.
I watched the Super Bowl and did not see Green Day. Wtf is everyone talking about?
It was before the coin flip.
Ohhhhhh.
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Holiday would also have been a good choice.
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!)They actually opened with that one!
Oh awesome 😎
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?
I think you’re right they didn’t want to upstage the main act, but there are things to consider as well.
A lot of Liberal america is still just in a state of “uneasy” despite all we’re seeing on media. It’s only been in the last couple weeks that major network news has even broadcast much of this unrest and ICE murdering people, and it’s still sandwiched between weather reports and stories about girl scouts selling the most cookies. People broadly are still very comfortable in the US and millions of people are going to work every day and coming home without seeing any problems, they don’t even really watch the news to begin with in many cases.
Green Day likely is accurately gauging how receptive the Super Bowl viewing crowd, America’s most mainstream and middle-class demographic, is going to handle too much radicalization right now.
I think there is also something to the fact that this song was written in protest to George Bush Jr. and the anti-islam, pro-war sentiment that was burning like wildfire in the country and led to the deaths of countless thousands of people in Iraq and Afghanistan for close to 2 decades. Maybe a message about repeating history.
Alternatively, our country’s “protest music” scene has really gone down the shitter broadly since the 60’s and 70’s so they might have just been phoning it in.
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.
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
The people who this is directed at, won’t understand it’s about them.
Fair, but being Canadians in America, that takes stones big enough that atlas couldn’t push.
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.
Sounds like you’re the one who should read further.
no this is real now california is canada now no takesbacksies y’all canadiennes are stuck with us nyeh nyeh
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.
they’re from Oakland, CA
They didn’t come here; they’re from here.
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
Given the political climate of America right now?
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
Are you saying that Green Day is Canadian? Or?
They are Canadian
they are Californian
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.
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.
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.
Oakland Canadifornia I guess. It’s just down the road from my igloo in Vancouver.
I was serious, I wrote the wrong nationality like a dumbass. I’m fucking stupid lmao
Was it Weird Al’s “Canadian Idiot” by any chance?
Unfortunately not, it was something much less delightful.
No, they are not.
Green Day have always been American… Their whole thing was that not all meth head trailer people have to have a ‘redneck’ mentality.
Who’s Canadian? 2 of them are from California, one is from Germany.
This thread sounds like a lunch conversation over at ICE.
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.
Damn, I dunno why but I hadn’t thought to edit it. I’ll remember that next time I’m wrong. Thanks.
RAAAAARK
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.
“I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda” got censored too… :/
It didn’t even get bleeped, they skipped that verse entirely :(
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.
Patrick Bateman, is that you?
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.
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.
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?
Yeah pop punk was huge in the aughts. Green Day started with more of an edge but they are certainly pop punk now.
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
Good for them although I’m not super surprised it’s one of their more popular songs.
Fair but at the Superbowl? I’m surprised Trump hasn’t already posted an angry rant about it.
He probably stroked out and had amnesia
The irony was lost on the crowd and I am sure someone will need to explain it to the Orange Turd
Can you imagine navigating the fog of trying to explain something to trump?
“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.
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
American Idiot
Lyrics
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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 argueI’m disappointed they skipped the most important lyric of the current situation.
I’m assuming the line before was the reason they skipped that part.
Did they change the lyrics? I was trying to listen but was a noisy environment at my house.
No, they didn’t do the MAGA agenda bit.
Which ironically makes Green Day American Idiots.
Maga agenda? Isn’t the lyric “redneck agenda”?
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.
like many popular songs by bands that have continued performing over decades, lyrics evolve.
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That’s disappointing
Agreed, but still big brass balls.
To me it sounded like they did but the audio was censored.
They censored the word “mindfuck.”
I know but they censored that too.
Maga heads would have exploded a la Mars Attacks
That’d be a beautiful moment but I’m picturing more of a Kingsman ending.
They would sing along having no idea it was making fun of them.
Lol they’d turn it into their anthem
Put it up there with “Fortunate Son” and “Born in the U.S.A.”
Unfortunately no, I was hoping for a direct call out too
