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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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[–] 176 points 9 months ago (28 children)

The people who this is directed at, won’t understand it’s about them.

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  • [–] [S] 41 points 9 months ago (27 children)

    Fair, but being Canadians in America, that takes stones big enough that atlas couldn't push.

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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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  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    Are you saying that Green Day is Canadian? Or?

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  • [+] -13 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    They are Canadian

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Who's Canadian? 2 of them are from California, one is from Germany.

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

    This thread sounds like a lunch conversation over at ICE.

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  • [–] [S] -2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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    • [–] 53 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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

    "I'm not a part of a MAGA agenda" got censored too... :/

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    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?

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    • [–] 45 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)
    American Idiot

    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
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    [–] 39 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Good for them although I'm not super surprised it's one of their more popular songs.

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  • [–] [S] 20 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Fair but at the Superbowl? I'm surprised Trump hasn't already posted an angry rant about it.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    The irony was lost on the crowd and I am sure someone will need to explain it to the Orange Turd

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    • [–] 32 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I'm disappointed they skipped the most important lyric of the current situation.

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    • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (16 children)

    Did they change the lyrics? I was trying to listen but was a noisy environment at my house.

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  • [–] [S] 45 points 9 months ago (14 children)

    No, they didn't do the MAGA agenda bit.

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

    Maga heads would have exploded a la Mars Attacks

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    They would sing along having no idea it was making fun of them.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Maga agenda? Isn't the lyric "redneck agenda"?

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    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.

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    • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    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

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    [–] 10 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    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!)

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

    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?

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    • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I watched the Super Bowl and did not see Green Day. Wtf is everyone talking about?

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    [–] 0 points 9 months ago

    @P00ptart They did?! I would think that, with all the Super Bowl crap I've heard, I would have learned this.

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