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Green Day just played "American idiot" at the Superbowl! (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world
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I'm so proud of em, haha!

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[–] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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...

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    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

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    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

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