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Not at all. 6.1 millions views on Facebook. It already has the same amount of views the Oh Love Lyric video gained in 4 years.

I went walking with my phone and headphones and listened to Bang Bang over and over for my entire walk, LOL. The tempo is perfect for walking and it sounds GORGEOUS through headphones.

While browsing Apple Music and its curated playlists, "Bang Bang" is all over. - #6 in Hot Tracks (All Genres) - #7 in "Best of the Week" curated playlist (All Genres) - #1 in Hot Tracks (Alternative) - #1 in Hot Tracks (Rock) - #1 in "The A-List Alternative" curated playlist - #1 in "The A-List: Rock" curated playlist - #1 in "The A-List: Hard Rock" curated playlist

Well, considering the official site only has the Facebook video up (which has 6 million as the other person pointed out), 1.6 isn't too bad. If you think about it, a lot of casual fans would follow this pattern: Hey, Green Day has a new song out, let me check their website.

Billboard: This week of Aug. 27th Rock Airplay: #9 Rock Digital Songs: #42 Alternative Songs: #16 Mainstream Rock Songs: #17 Hot Rock Songs: #23

http://blinkmybrain.tv/greenday-bang-bang Just clicked the Directed by link under Bang Bang lyrics video and was directed on this site. Looks funny with video taken to pieces. Billie, Mike and Tre kicking ass

They mean quite a lot. For a view to have been counted, the video has to have played for long enough to make an impression on the user. Of course 6.1 million people haven't watched the entire video from start to finish. But the video has made an impression on these people, which is great from a publicity viewpoint.

I get a little excited when the second to last "I wanna be a celebrity martyr" starts playing because my brain is excited there's at least one more after this one.

Sorry, I can't make the middle picture bigger

And your opinion is fine, but it's still your opinion. I prefer the AI/21CB era because it just sounded like a more ambitious, natural evolution of the band and the harmonies and instruments sounded incredible.

I love it, the guitar and bass seems so HUGE

I have been listening all day & it finally has come on the radio - the best song of the day. Goal achieved for today.

Andrew Scheps has moved into mixing completely 'in the Box'...meaning no hardware or anything, just computer software. CLA mixed green day since Nimrod (i think) and does everything in analogue with hardware and really expensive gear. There is no right or wrong way to mix, but the sound is certainly different

Recording technology hasn't really changed since the release of the trilogy (If that's what you're referring to)

Oh my gosh, I want an arcade Green Day themed game right now.

i want the chorus as my ringtone holy crap

I'm definitely glad that they're going for the big marshall sound again

Every time I hear "I wanna dance like I'm on the video" I have this mental image of BJ twerking and I don't know how to feel about that

Bang Bang is #13 on Alt Nations most requested songs list. They do it on a Saturday so the song was only out for 2 days. Now if the oldest didn't total my car with Sirius radio I could listen to it.

The bridge is my favorite part of the song

Green Day -Bang Bang After 4 years, the great band Green Day released their new song Bang Bang. I was lucky enough to be invited by Warner Music to direct the official lyric video for this powerful song. Green Day is one of my favorite bands, so I had so much fun working with them. My role: Direction, Design and Animation. Produced by: Devin Sarno, Laura Mende http://blinkmybrain.tv/greenday-bang-bang

I've always liked that photo a lot...for obvious reasons.

Agreed. I was on a trip this weekend so I got some serious headphone/ plane time with this one. Overall the sound and mix job are really solid- pretty stunning, actually when compared side by side with previous albums. I'm no audiophile/ mix engineer, so can someone help me by explaining how much of this (if any) can be attributed to new technology? Has recording technology improved this significantly over the years? I would assume they used absolute top of the line equipment and recording methods during their recent major releases, but this seems like it's on a whole new level. Also, I agree that the vocals tend to get overpowered in a few spots, but given the power of the drums and guitars I'd imagine something would need to be sacrificed. The drum mix- and quality of Tre's drumming- was shocking to me. I've always thought the world of him, but in some recent albums it seemed he had either been holding back a bit or had deliberately been more restrained. Not on this one.

Fuck that shit, I want a GD's Metal Slug

Angry Birds and Rockband aren't good enough for you?

idk the comments are typical & make me laugh - haters gonna hate

Not sure if this has been posted yet.... https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/15/pop-punk-green-day-blink-182-descendents?client=safari Interesting article in The Guardian (UK paper). Very positive about the new single, and the band generally. Ignore the comments....Guardian readers are notoriously pretentious, middle class snobs....and I'm including myself in that

I took it to mean maybe they were enjoying the process and feeling inspired but just channeled that by keeping on pushing and pushing out more songs, rather than being more relaxed and letting them come naturally/slowly and not going with every single idea. He said he liked the songs and liked making them so I don't think he meant forced as in having a miserable time making songs when they didn't want to, more just that they took a different approach. Could be that they were almost too inspired with the trilogy and it pushed them to force out as many songs as they could rather than being more considered about things as they have been this time.

I have a history of being really critical of the trilogy. That whole era really shook me as a fan, to be honest. First, the interviews felt weird and off (which would later be explained, but at the time I didn't understand what was going on). I wasn't crazy about Oh Love (I totally agree Stay the Night would've much better framed the release). Then I HATED the music videos for Oh Love and Kill the DJ. I'd always loved Green Day because they basically made fun of the rockstar lifestyle. Yeah, they have fun and party and are absolutely incredible onstage. But they've had families from a young age, and didn't really engage too wholeheartedly in that "sex, drugs, and rock n roll" thing. It wasn't their scene, and I loved them for it. But the dancing girls in Holiday were parody, and the dancing girls in Oh Love were serious. This made me wildly uncomfortable, as it was such a huge image shift from who I'd always thought these men to be. Then iHeart happened. I was horrified at what went down, but during what followed, I felt so connected to the band. Mike was giving us really personal updates, Billie was getting better. Times were tough, but everyone was getting by. And then...they went out back on the road. Too quickly from my perspective, but that's not my problem. But I was so excited to see them for what was the fourth or fifth time, and the whole night fell flat for me. Green Day concerts have always been the best nights of my life, and I just felt nothing after that concert. Maybe they were rushed, maybe it was because they weren't as invested in the new songs as they'd have liked to have been. Whatever the case, it was not the best night, and I fell off with Green Day pretty much up until I attended the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame ceremony (we weren't in a good place, but I couldn't miss my favorite band on such an important night). So for me, there were a lot of factors that made me dislike the trilogy that really had nothing to do with the music itself. I think a lot felt like filler, but the cool thing about it is that you can pick and choose your favorites and make your own playlist from it. And it's funny—despite my general distaste for the era, it produced one of my favorite songs of all time—Brutal Love. Songs like that, Amy, and Lazy Bones are phenomenal. In fact, I love the vast majority of Uno and Tre. They have some great work in there, but it gets buried by the excess material. If they REALLY had that much material they loved and wanted to release, then it would've been a great idea. I think the final product ended up being more forced than they'd hope for, though, and it came through in many ways. /end rant

I like the trilogy. Not picking Stay The Night as a single was what doomed the whole thing. Also, does anyone know, I had read something once that Walk Away was from Cigarettes and Valentines? Is there any truth to that?

Yeah my adrenaline of getting a new set of albums made me blinded by the fact that they weren't as good as they could have been. It took me awhile to critique them from another point of view and i realized the replay factor wasn't huge as other albums for me.

I don't think it's people being hypocrites. They weren't saying one thing while actually feeling something else. But I do agree that people's opinion changed dramatically based on criticisms other people were making. And then the iHeart incident happened and album sales tanked and people who were once really into it started talking shit about it. They definitely let popular opinion mold their own opinions. I think that's part of human nature. While I was really excited about the albums and very hyped up, after they were out for a bit, I thought they were underwhelming, while still having some very good songs on there. I don't blame people for not really liking the albums considering everything else that unfolded, but I did definitely notice opinion here turn based on how the general public felt about it.

1. I actually enjoyed the fact that we had so little information leading into this single's release, along with the album. While getting all the videos and articles during the process of the trilogy being recorded was a great insight to the process, I know I overanalyzed everything and ruined my initial experience with the albums. I was expecting a certain sound and got something else. This time around I set no expectations for the album on any front, and I was pleasantly surprised with Bang Bang. 2. This song is pumpass! I can only hope that it is used as a setlist opener to get the people going, unless they go with Revolution Radio or Somewhere Now. I love how this song is a combination of what they have done sonically and lyrically, but is still an evolution to their own sound. 3. It took a little bit on Thursday, but this song reminded me of the whole Elliot Rodger situation from two years ago. The fact that I had to try to narrow down what specific mass shooter this song reminds me of is pretty sad, although you could make an argument for a lot of the shooters over the last five years. There are enough lines in the song that make me think of this particular shooter. "You're dead! I'm well fed. Give me death or give me head. Daddy's little psycho and Mommy's little soldier." Elliot was from a very well to do family and his sexual frustration led him to think that carrying out his manifesto was the right thing to do. Plus, it seemed like he had jealousy of his father who didn't have any problems with his wealth or love life. His dad even said that they didn't have that great of a relationship for quite a long time. "I testify like a lullaby of memories. Broadcasting live and it's on my radio. I got my photobomb, I got my Vietnam. I love a lie just like anybody else." Elliot had posted videos and written on message boards prior to the shooting. He posted his manifesto online for the world to see before he carried out this atrocity. His sexual frustration that had been going on his life to that point was his Vietnam. That somehow him not getting laid was his own private war that he was never going to win. I think the lie he believed was the fact that he had money and fancy things (broadcasting from my room and playing with my toys_, along with supposedly being the "nice guy", was going to be all he had to do to get with women (or at least the ones he was attracted to). This is a narrative that has been put out that because you have all of these things and are attracted to someone, they have to want you just as much. I mean he called himself a supreme gentlemen and the perfect guy. In the end his inability to take responsibility to look in the mirror to see his own faults led to his own downfall. "I want to be a celebrity martyr. The leading man in my own private drama. The hero of the hour." "It's my private holy war. Oh baby baby this is Viva Vendetta. For this is love or its' World War Zero." Somehow I see Elliot thinking that what he was doing was acting on behalf of all those that were sexually frustrated as him, and that he was going to be seen as a hero/good guy by them. That by taking this "stand", he was going to be better off. Based on what I can remember, from a young age he noticed that there was a social hierarchy and that he didn't fit in. That even with everything else he had, he couldn't move up. He built this up so much that it consumed him and his inability to get with women. By creating these videos, writing these posts, and carrying out his manifesto/war on women he could finally have the power and control he wanted.

I don't know if this has been talked about yet, but I like this song's lyrics as a continuation of Having A Blast. Billie's focus with the gun issue seems to fall to the psychosis-- the hero complex of the people committing heinous gun crimes. He wrote from the perspective of the shooter (I know it was a bomb, but I digress) with Having A Blast. In Bang Bang he's a removed narrator addressing the character from Having A Blast using that biting sarcasm and irony that he does so well to paint the true insanity and futility of mass shooters. I don't know if he even thought of Having A Blast while writing Bang Bang, but the echoes speak to his focus on the issue

I can't hear "Martyr." I always hear "model" 😤 I don't hear the "r" Did you get a confirmation email of your purchase? The link is near the bottom.

Blink-182, Weezer, and Red Hot Chili Peppers, to name a few, have their singles playing on the radio and at the first listen they seemed alright. After a while these songs eventually grew on me. It feels like this has been the case for a lot of the songs I have been hearing on the radio lately. Fast forward to a few seconds before Aug 11th 7am PDT when all of us are waiting with excitement for the single to come out. We were talking in the group chat, viewing the topic for the song, and listening to a live streams (a non-US one might I add) for any hints of the new song. @Andres had sent us a Spotify link to us in the chat and I was thinking "here we go". I pressed play and had no clue what was coming next since I tried my best to avoid reading any comments about the song. The moment the intro started I already knew I was hooked. The face paced guitars and drums took me back to the pace of St. Jimmy. Hell yeah, a fast first single. Then you have the catchy hurrahs and the chorus. Aspects of 21st Century Breakdown returns in the bridge of the song. Lastly, that drum fill from Mr. Tré Cool. All these different elements packed into this song. It's great. Welcome back Green Day. This single leaves me thinking, if this is the first single off of the album, I cannot wait to hear the rest of the album.

This is pretty cool... The 404 Show, a podcast on CNET, began their show with a good talk about Green Day and "Bang Bang." The hosts quickly reflected on their past experiences with the band and when they got in to them. The hosts mentioned they really haven't paid much attention to the band the past decade or so but they are in love with the new song. I just thought it was pretty neat that the song was brought up on a pop culture show and that the hosts, who admittedly haven't listened to them much recently, are digging it. http://www.cnet.com/news/the-404-show-1672-suicide-squad-no-mans-sky-green-day-tech-support-scammers-podcast/

Exactly. I get excited every time I see a Green Day shirt. I don't care how big of a fan they are, I just like that they're enough of a fan to wear a shirt. I'll talk to anyone in person about Green Day, even if it's just about Boulevard of Broken Dreams.

I'm sad because Z J didn't attend the Green Day song contest. Based on his knowledge he would create the best Green Day like song.

I'd take 39/Smooth over the Trilogy every day, though.