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You know what, fuck this guy, he's 15 years older than me and looks 15 times better/healthier. I hate him.

Thanks all, almost a million tickets sold in the first 24 hrs!

5'7". Or in Billie speak, "about 5'8".

He looked and sounded phenomenal. The HAIR.

I would not be so sure about that, the first reactions to the song from some fans were a bit rough, but now, especially after the lives and music video, it looks like the average opinion of the fanbase is changing quite a lot, in positive Personally I love it, the whole vibe surely takes something from Foxboro, but even more from many different acts of rock n roll history, and in both cases I can’t find anything negative in this

Billie is killing with these blazers!

For those who did not waste their time scrolling through getty images for the last hour, here are a few pics from last night's performance (a little more than what we are supposed to put all at once in a post, but there were too many of them I loved. I put half of it in spoilers) I'm currently so much in love with his legs I loved the blue / shiny tone for the background; and whatever says this motherfucka about his own songs, it reminds me of live still breathing . dang um, badass So the rest below Okay, I'm gonna sleep my fangirling off now, bye

The entire Hella Mega business is 100% what their management did to get them to stadiums and make money

I've rarely actually found myself reaching for this word re: his hair but the fluff sure was strong last night. 🤩🤩 I was so engrossed in watching the performance I didn't notice until later that he changed from the starry to leopard print blazer lol. Now I'm all for leopard print but I hope he uses the other one more, it looks so good. Well, any blazer looks good on his smol figure, but y'know

Seems to have sold very very well in Europe. america, with those ticket prices, it wouldn’t surprise me if it sold badly

That’s being logical, there is no place for that on the internet. Don’t let logic get in the way of a good conspiracy. Honestly though I agree 100% with your point. This is the album and this is the direction Green Day wants to go in. And it’s not even that surprising, there is history of Green Day going with this sound on Stop Drop and Roll!!! and on Dos.

@DadBod I think 5'9 is being generous. The tiniest boi.

I know everyone usually fangirls about visuals, but can we just talk about how fuckin good Billie sounds atm? Though tbh the guys we're also looking fab!

I don't see anything especially unlike Green Day about FOAM, even though Walker's influence is perhaps noticeable, if we assume the heavier vocal distortion is his doing. If that's the price to pay for crisp, audible bass, so be it. On the other hand, it would be completely misguided to believe that this guy: had any say in choosing the wardrobe.

This music is 100% Billie Joe. Anyone who has followed his instagram posts and his side project activity since RevRad could see where this was headed. It’s the music he wants to make that says what he wants to say, as always. All Crush and Warner do is package that music and sell it with a visual that matches the sound they are given (and all with Green Day’s stamp of approval).

Maybe they’re sick of being pigeonholed as epic. Green Day is whatever they want it to be. No two eras are alike really.

Bille looks BEAUTIFUL. His styling is so much better than Rev Rad. The hair is...perfect. And he’s in shape. I have not been liking Mike’s look but he looked like a sexy mofo last night.

I think even just looking at the lyrics of the first song and the album cover there is more to the songs than just fun. It's more about having fun despite bad stuff going on and there could be some very interesting lyrics based on that. Also not every Green Day album has to have an epic sound, they've done all sorts of things before including short albums with simple music. Big epic American Idiot style is just one of many sides of Green Day.

Oh ok . I think the other thing is a lot of people were like whoa this doesn't sound anything like Green Day/Billie when they first heard the song (myself included) but then it started to sound more familiar and grew on them. Of course people should be allowed to not like it, and it's always likely that management etc can have some form of influence on things, but it does seem like the band are genuinely into this. And personally I think it does make sense as a creative direction, it has Foxie (the look especially)/trilogy/Longshot vibes and the idea of acknowledging that there's bad stuff going on in the world and saying fuck it and partying/enjoying good things as part of the response isn't exactly new for them, it's the same sentiment Billie was talking about during shows on the last tour.

I was going to post a pic, but the site won’t let me paste the url when I’m on my phone (just got the iPhone 11 today. Doesn’t let me paste links in any browser on gdc ). i thought saw a hint of liner too!! i watched it with my mom and she was like “he seems... not very tall.” 😂🤣😂🤣😂 I had to tell her that he’s not and only like 5’9”

Just because you don't like something doesn't mean there's some conspiracy behind it.

To me it sounds like Stop Drop and Roll. Every time I hear it, I imagine Mother Mary beginning right after. That is a very good thing.

Billie is definitely looking good. Healthy, happy and beautiful. His hair is perfect and styling is awesome. And I love him with just a bit of definition to his eyes. Anyone got a view of Mike's pants from the back? Maybe Billie will add some to his wardrobe this tour.

I listened stop drop and roll 3 times in the row and it's great. Easy, catchy, strait rock and roll. It have 12 song and is 32.38 min long. Song are not too short for me they fit perfect. If we will get something like this now but witch GD brand I will be pleased.

Indeed, he's killing it live. The puppet was a training for foam all along

This is why it needs to be FOAM and not FOAMF, FOAM is the perfect acronym! Billie is totally killing the falsetto live. But I just realised it sounds not dissimilar to his "funny" high pitched puppet voice he does and I'm never going to un-think this 😩

Only in his platform creepers

Managers generally are employed by the artist not the labels... labels will offer new artists managers but never ever take an manager hired by the label...

I honestly really love the production of RevRad. It might be the best sounding album they've had since American Idiot.

"green day wouldn't troll their fans" lmao this is the band that essentially named their first big album "poop".

Well, if hella mega expensive shows don't sell well there's hope that next tour won't be as hella mega expensive, so I don't see it as a problem from our perspective

Hashtag 😂 I think he really seems to enjoy this self image he has as a complete mess. He’s made a career out of it. One of my favorite Longshot lyrics (which always makes me think of iHeart) is: “Well I can self destruct on any given note/my ruin is my storyline.”

I don't understand what the fuss is about. If you don't like the song, that's perfectly okay. But I don't understand all the craziness over the "sound" of the song. My first thought when I heard it was that it sounded like a Foxboro Hot Tubs release, or a song from Dos. Obviously that might not be everyone's favorite sound from them and that's perfectly okay. But it's still obviously Green Day to me. Just under a garage rock vibe rather than a punk one, something they have done before. People are acting like Green Day made a trap song. And FWIW, I think the production on this song is far better than anything off of Revolution Radio. That album has AWFUL production, possibly the worst of any GD release. Everything was either extremely quiet, or glaringly loud. The noticeable clipping at the beginning of Bouncing Off The Wall for example is cringe. I'm not sure what happened, as they produced themselves fine on Warning which has a great sound. But RevRad was not it. Needs a remaster bad. Butch Walker isn't a bad producer, he just tends to produce a lot of pop stuff.

Regardless of wether I like the song or not, I could share this point of view, the management imposing stuff over the band, if this song and what surrounds it was actually something absurd, out of the blue and the history of the band. But it’s not (IMHO, as everything that follows). Musically, the song is a natural evolution of sounds the band have been experimenting with in the last 15 years, with Foxboro, Dos, Longshot, and more. Lyrically, this is Billie sharing his demons in a fun way, something that he has always been doing, one can like it or not, but I can’t see anything of forced there. On the production side, sure Butch Walker is there, but I can mainly hear this on the positive side of things, I can understand and respect that someone hates the vocal filter (which has been there for ages, maybe not as present, but it’s Billie the one loving it) but I definitely can’t see this “pop” or “FOB style” influence over the song, this sounds 100% Green Day doing some rock n roll to me. From a “style and packaging” perspective, as any other musical album release, they have management consulting, coordinating, and guiding a lot of it. But honestly none of what we saw so far seems forced, not more then any other promotion cycle, certainly less then some cases (see the Trilogy). Damn the music video is the most Green Day thing I saw in many years. Billie’s comments to the song can be weird, cringe, creepy and everything else, but they are Billie as fuck. At the most I can see a certain Reverend influence. Finally, the tour is clearly something coming from the band side, if they didn’t want to do stadiums, they would have not done it, no one forced them, as no one forced them to join Crush and its roster. And Mike is clearly not dressed like Brandon Urie

Sorry for piling on, but the Network is a classic example of them trolling fans.

Quote from Billie from the first Kerrang interview: "But Green Day's credo is mischief, no matter what. We're always down for mischief and we want to fuck with people.... to the point of it being abusive." 🙄

Guitar riff sounds like Fuck Time and vocal melody like Stop Drop and Roll. It's a fusion

Six of those were mine 😊 I hope you get lots of sellouts 🙏🦄

Just seems so obvious to me Quite right. If only green day chose their own managers and didn't sack the previous because they were unhappy with their management. Yup, not best pleased with the direction of the album but Billie clearly is, so just gotta ride it out

Someone reminded me in another thread of all the bullshit Good morning America style interviews they were doing during the Trilogy time, the angry birds, the csi episodes, I think that promotion had the worst shit going around, even before Billie’s issue came out of the ground. And if you are talking about golden blazers, Urie should not be your reference

Confirmed: Billie Joe Armstong is a God. 😂

You..... think the management team had influence on Billie Joe's songwriting? That's a serious statement you're making?

Teasing is different than trolling. They tease. They don't troll.

I like the song, Im excited for the album but in my selfish opinion it's just not nearly as good as Bang Bang and Im not as excited for FOAM as I was for RevRad.

Gotta say after watching the video the song has grown on me

This has gotta be a joke