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ok well i've seen the (original) musical multiple times and i can tell you that it is amazing. i will admit that the studio recordings are less so, but the songs are honestly amazing live. they tend to lose some of the magic when recorded, but that doesn't mean the cast is any less talented or that the musical versions are absolutely trash or "pure cringe". i'm fucking sick of everyone on this forum acting like one direction and justin bieber aren't talented musicians, and throwing "kidz bop" towards anything that doesn't have electric guitars or whatever. this isn't directed towards you specifically but everyone needs to stop being so fucking stuck up. i hate justin bieber as a person but that doesn't mean he isn't talented or that i don't enjoy his music.

Worst? Nah, one of the best songs they've ever done, for me.

you're trying to tell me that rebecca naomi jones is a inferior singer to billie joe ok. like hermione said, it's musical singing. sometimes it may not exactly fit the "punk" "edge" of american idiot, but live it absolutely works. and letterbomb is amazing.

Gonna sic Alissa on your ass, nomnom LNOE is a song that I initially thought I hated, but then I realized that it's quite beautiful; it's a grower. But I think the musical version blows it out of the water.

My first dance is going to be When It's Time, much better than Last Night On Earth.

I love Last Night On Earth. It's a fairly standard love song but I really don't think the lyrics are cheesy. They're just open, honest and simple. There's a difference.

stage acting is a lot different from screen acting. everything is over the top and exaggerated and loud and dramatic. so yeah ""punk spirit"" is going to look ""forced"" just like everything else.

So cute in these

I know it's been said before but his vocals on that tour were utter perfection. He actually sung most of the high notes that he usually bottles and just shouts.

And JOS is a hard song to deliver, so that speaks to his ability. When he did it live on 21cb tour he hit some spectacular notes.

Last Night on Earth is hands down the best vocal they've ever done. The runs/falsettos are perfect plus Billie proved he could do it live. The lyrics aren't bad as love songs go. Especially when compared to When It's Time. Also, Tony Vincent's tone in the beginning of LNOE is fucking fantastic, they did well with that song in the musical. Even though I will agree that the "punk spirit" certainly seemed forced from a lot of the characters. Also, an AI movie is almost doomed to be awful, but I do believe it is POSSIBLE to have it work if they step away from the faux-punk attitude that exists in the musical and in the JOS music video. They would to need to make it really dark and cast it perfectly for it to work for me. Edit: basically what DookieLukie said above with regard to most singers.

I liked the musical, but it was a bit cringey when it first began. After the first song or so, I got really into it and it became a different world, really. My one complaint is that the singers sing like they are trying to be edgy and punk, but it just sounds whiny. I liked Billie's nephew the second time I saw it. He sounded like Billie and didn't really need to add any whine to his voice.

#TomHanksForStJimmyRole

That may be who's to blame, but that's kind of irrelevant when the result is the same.

Which is yet another example of why Green Day should not be in a position of power when it comes to making decisions.

I don't think that the clean-ness of the singers' voices is a problem so much as the fact that everyone just sounds so fucking whiny, y'know? It's like they were directed to channel their inner twelve-year-old who's had his Xbox taken away.

Hell no, as a Sweeney Todd fanatic I can tell you that musicals can and often do sound far edgier/harsher than AI. The AI musical is the equivalent of the annoying kid who listens to Avril Lavigne and Nickelback and thinks he's edgy.

Because it's just Kidz Bop trying to hide behind "punk?"

I saw I think a studio paper somewhere or something that called it Alright

I wanted to say this but I don't remember what the version on the cast album sounded like. The version that they showed Billie Joe in Broadway Idiot, with the choir-type thing, was phenomenal.

The songs on the Trilogy without any swearing are: Nuclear Family (although has "piss"), Carpe Diem, Fell For You, Troublemaker (has "tits") Sweet 16, Oh Love, See You Tonight, Stop When The Red Lights Flash, Stray Heart, Lady Cobra, Nightlife, Wow That's Loud, Amy, Brutal Love, 8th Avenue Serenade, Drama Queen, X-Kid, Sex Drugs & Violence, Little Boy Named Train, Amanda, Walk Away and The Forgotten. I doubt Nightlife would be considered age-appropriate, and people might lose their shit over Drama Queen without bothering to analyse the meaning, but beyond that you'd probably be ok. I'd stick to Fell For You, Sweet 16, Oh Love, Amy, Brutal Love, X-Kid and The Forgotten though, personally. I consider them transitional personally. That said, the static sounds are on more Breakdown songs than you might necessarily think. How about Extraordinary Girl into Letterbomb?

I just noticed that 21 Guns has some of the radio static from American Eulogy at the end. I wonder if they could be considered transitional tracks in any sense. They've got more going for them than Are We The Waiting/St. Jimmy, at least. Dat bassline. Here's me playing it. And then reversing what I played. Which is really a double reversal. https://soundcloud.com/zackery-paskell/nightlife-bassline-backwards

While I pretty much despise anything else AI-musical-related, I much prefer the version of 21 Guns that features both Green Day and the AI cast to the studio version.

The mental image I have of this needs brain bleach.

The Forgotten. But to me cliché doesn't necessarily make anything bad as long as its used in the right, or maybe honest, way. There's a reason things have become cliché and that's cause they work. Much unlike The Forgotten.

No Well none of my friends like GD so I highly doubt it haha. I don't think my parents would be too happy about hearing that at my wedding

If you just want upbeat then why not go for Platypus?

Oh my god that is the most romantic thing ever. Knowing you, I'd've thought it'd be Panic Song.

It's also gonna be the first dance at my wedding, so there's that.

FALSE! He says "My beating heart belongs to you." In all seriousness, while the lyrics are undeniably simple to the point of charming naivete, the melody and the overall sweet slow-dance atmosphere save it.

errr...

it's literally so awful. i've never liked it and frankly i never knew that anyone did. the verses are boring melodically and otherwise. the chorus is more than bland and the way it's repeated about three hundreds times throughout the song is just dreadful. the only redeeming parts are the guitar solo and the part right after it. but they don't make me enjoy the song overall.

omq I can't :lol:

To be fair, though, Good Riddance was their best known song over here before BOBD, so I find it kind of surprising that no one knew the album it was from.

So I couldn't help but make this... It's nightlife played in reverse..

:wub: watermarked

From Billie's 40th birthday party in 2012. Photo from Natalie Nesser's photography website

Good god, just stop with this already.

What on earth are you talking about? There's so much wrong with this post I can't even...