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Mike is only about 3 inches taller than Billie (like 5'9 or 5'10 max), they're all a bunch of shorties. But he does still look lanky Edit: Proof of this

I don't believe it, but it would be so nice. I'd love to see them again. It would be so much sooner than I dared to hope

Tbh I hope it won't be a festival tour because festivals are expensive and none are expecially close to me or conveniently timed

He tried to just drop it in all casual like "I'm only about 5'8 and..." but there was no way he was going to get away with it

Better?

^Billie is wearing creepers! Cheat!!!

Mike kind of looks like my grandfather. They have a very similar facial bone structure, and both are / were very tall and lanky

And that's it again. Billie never says the truth. When he says his songs about drugs and cheating aren't about actual drugs and cheating, he most definitely cheats and does drugs and I feel obliged to take this on another level: Billie never tells the truth. The whole time he was speaking up against Bush he was in fact supporting Bush. American Idiot is in fact a very pro-Bush song but he lured us into thinking the opposite because that way he could sell more tickets. He's a strong Trump supporter now. Believe nothing he says. No Trump actually means, No, Trump! as in No, Trump is an awesome guy, vote Trump! That's a fact. Billie is a huge GOP supporter.

I also heard rumours about Green Day headlining Rock am Ring in Germany next year. I seriously hope they will headline some of the big festivals next year before they start working on their new album

Why always take it at face value/literally when it's a fact that not all songs are written literally though? Why ignore that Billie actually said specific parts of the trilogy were his imagination? Just seems like an unnecessarily one dimensional way of looking at something that isn't always one dimensional. Point isn't whether it's literal or not, just that sometimes it's literal and sometimes it isn't and we don't always know which (and it usually doesn't matter).

I’m gonna guesstimate Tre is 5’6”, Billie is 5’7” and Mike is 5’9”. Mike is kind of gangly so he seems taller than he is. And Billie seems even smaller than he is because he’s got a skinny frame and short legs. Tre has a stockier build so I’m always surprised he’s as short as he is.

The cuteness!

Yeah and Billie once described himself as 5’8” but in his dreams maybe 😄

I agree with these figures . Mike could just about be 5'10 (and that's what it says if you google his height) but I don't think more.

Agreed, I think we all think Tre is bigger because he’s got a much stockier frame than Billie. Billie isn’t that short to me, my brother is 5’7, my dad was 5’6 and my brother is the tallest in my family lol, on a good day I am 5’1. Billie has a very petite frame though which is why I think he looks so tiny but he is nicely in proportion, very nicely

Well they're all taller than me , but he's not above average male height.

He does look tall. But I'm sure standing next to Billie and Tre makes him look even taller because they are both small. Seriously though, I've never seen anyone like Billie. He looks small enough to fit into my pocket.

Yes, he's basically a new Hitler What does this mean can you please explain in at least 4 paragraphs?

Same, the festival option isn't a good one for me either, after having Glasgow cancelled though, I may have to rope in some pals if they do some festivals in UK next year, I am not convinced though, they played a lot of shows in the last year.

There's nothing inherently wrong with people being uncomfortable with the themes on the Trilogy. What I think we were all originally saying is just that those themes aren't unique to it, so there's no need to be especially uncomfortable listening to it on the band's behalf, yet some people still are. If someone has personal discomfort with the era or themes that's totally fine. It just becomes unreasonable when those people insist things like "it's meaningless and about nothing but substance abuse" because the themes make them uncomfortable, or because they'd prefer him to write about something else (that's what I meant by "shrugging it off"). Billie has never actually said anything along those lines, so it's speculation in itself. No one is obliged to think about the lyrics or even listen to Billie's explanations if they're uncomfortable with them, but then there's no need to apply a blanket meaning to it all when he hasn't done that himself. This hasn't happened on GDC for a while so I'm not calling anyone out or anything. I just distinctly remember it from the Trilogy era and still see it elsewhere sometimes. I think it's a shame because those statements are really just fan speculation, but lead to (some) people disliking the albums more than they actually need to.

I have definitely heard Rammstein rumours but I thought if was me spreading the GD rumours

Does anyone have inside info on your dates? I'm hearing a lot of rumours about either rammstein or green day being one of the headliners for download festival in Australia

That looks like 2005-2007 Billie to me... EDIT: I wasn’t too wrong apparently, it’s from 2006.

It seems the photo is from 48th Grammys Awards in 2006.

I actually thought I posted in the fangirls thread - sorry

I'm not sure what you mean by "shrugging off." Like, as opposed to what? Lyrics are there to be interpreted by whoever is listening. Billie Joe knows that too. Like Hermione says, not all the lyrics are meant to be taken literally. Sometimes they are, but sometimes it comes from a different place. It's not like he's writing them in his sleep and waking up to find the songs already recorded and out there for everyone to hear. There's a whole process going on, lines are re-written and whatnot. It's not always a stream of Billie's consciousness. We're meant to take different interpretations from the words. As to whether lyrics are actually about Billie or not, the point is it doesn't matter. We can worry about him when shit gets real like it did during the Trilogy, but when all we're doing is analyzing his lyrics, that's just speculation about his private life which I'm not particularly into. If that makes me a bad fan, whatever.

I honestly didn't know a lot of people were so unaware of his alcohol/substance/general mental health problems before iHeart/rehab happened. Not only has he always written about it in his lyrics but he's also always openly talked about it in interviews. He talked about drink and drug problems and feeling troubled/miserable in pretty much every interview he did in the 90s. I guess listening to the trilogy or watching shows from that time could be more affecting since everything came to a head right after but I didn't know anyone was under the impression that everything was hunky dory or a secret until then. You can hear dark, real stuff on all their albums not just the trilogy, he just carried on writing as honestly as usual and I don't have any extra trouble listening to it. We really don't know the details about exactly which substances were the main problem or how each affected him though since he's chosen not to go into it, not much point in speculating about that.