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Billie has changed ''nothing says fuck you like a unicorn'' to ''Chicken lettuce under bacon'' on his Instagram profile

^God, Billie looks fucking incredible. I'm constantly baffled by him.

That was a heartfelt message. They're young and healthy, we can only hope they'll be all right.

Some random pictures from the last two shows:

He is so odd. 🥰

I love it when he does that sassy, hand on hip pose...and that hair! 😍

There is a Tight Wad Hill in Berkeley, overlooking the University field. The Armstrong boys have posted photos from up there watching games 🤗 Fair enough not the one he wrote about originally that I am aware of. But, one he knows about now! We went to all 3 Tight Wad hills just to make sure 😂

From last night:

I was just thinking about how much I love the song Whatsername. It's probably one of my favorite GD songs and my favorite song on AI and I wish they would play it more. I love the sadness and intensity of it and how it starts and ends so softly. Such a fantastic song!

Holy hell 🔥. A+ camera work

When you hear the last 2 chords of BOBD and immediately recognize it as BOBD🙂

I'm thinking it was designed by a baby who dipped their finger in ketchup and drew on the table

OMG!! The unicorn "tattoo" on mickey!!!!!!! 😂

Swmrs update.

A couple of weeks ago, I was packing a package that I found out was headed to Berkeley once I printed the packing slip ... Which printed as I was listening to Tight Wad Hill. I wonder if the post office the package was going to is near it 😄

Well, just finished watching the Kevin and Bean performance video and don’t really know where to start. I’ll just share this, it really need to be here. Enjoy 🔥🔥🔥🔥💥 oh, but should say, the thumbnail is not flattering!

Damn it was also my 10 year anniversary of seeing them the first time on the 23rd. Totally brilliant show and so awesome to meet loads of GDCers that I'm still friends with today. Getting to see Green Day live with my sister was amazing but meeting everyone and the community spirit there made it extra special, I can thank GDC for that Will also be my 10 year anniversary of seeing FBHT on the 1st . I never would have been there if it wasn't for GDC and my Green Day friends (probably wouldn't have even known about it nor had the balls to go to London with no guarantee of a ticket without the encouragement and help of great people). It was the best show I'll ever see and I'll remember it forever.

"Mike Dirnt" just got autocorrected to "Mike Diva" and I was like no mate, that's Billie

I can't wait until that gets sold as merch

I would love Still Breathing to stay on the setlist.

New photo from their recent stylist

When you’re typing a letter to a law firm and one of the names it is to is Pritchard and know that only other GD fans would understand without explanation.

I'm reading a serie of novels for teen/young adult. The main character mentions a bunch of punk bands she listens to through out the books. I was wondering why she never mentionned GD yet until I read pages 350-352 of book #6. I was like «Yes! That was about time!»

I gave in and bought one the other week (it was one you could put in the microwave and use to keep warm!) I also saw this giant unicorn in the shop today - it must have been 3 feet 6 inches! And you know you're a Green Day fan when you see this and think of the Longshot!

I love Mike, does he really remember most pictures of the band that he’s seen!!

Think this one from NME is slightly different to the ones above:

" It kills the mood and should make a person feel more cautious" Who tells you he doesn't feel more cautious now? I for my part feel relieved that he unveils the alcohol taboo thing. Some people don't need abstinence... and even if it ever gets out of hand for him again in the future, he's well cared for around him and will advise then. Nothing indicates that it is out of control now, nothing at all. The comparisons with the trilogy are recognizable but not on the unhealthy aspect to me. I wasn't a fan yet at that period and so I don't have any flashbacks like some may have to it, but from all the videos I saw from that time Billie looks very different. He looks very healthy now, while from the beginning of the trilogy tour he didn't. I see the similitudes but the ones I see are good. He's immersing himself in what he tried to do at that time and is doing it now in another much cooler way (a tiny album vs a trilogy), to complete the buckle in a way. Doing this after these several years and after another album which wasn't focused on that seems sane to me. I think what matters the most is for him to be able to listen to his limits for everything, alcohol, tour, pressure, etc. and only himself knows them. Taking elements by themselves like drinking, partying, etc. is not significant. How he looks is more significant. Only the future will tell. Meanwhile, we can't pretend to know how he feels / what he thinks. The only thing we have is what he purposefully shows. He shows us what he does now, precisely knowing what we can think of, and this is everything but denial. I think Billie is a complex person like any other and we can't just reduce him to either "non-drinking / healthy / relieved to be still alive" or "drinking / party mood / unhealthy/ in denial and doesn't care anymore". Not saying someone said that exactly but the two figures are continuously showing up when speaking about Foam era and comparing it to Rev Rad. Saying that while I love Rev Rad and the mood it had in particular. I think a lot of the comparison elements hinges on what he shows during the two eras, because we don't know exactly what he does anyway. Showing now that he clearly isn't sober but that he can still do things right is a bold move, but it's in his character, so. I think he does it all in a thoughtful way, not acted, but precisely on the opposite to denial and carelessness.

I haven't seen this (or I at least haven't seen it recently enough to remember it )

It's quite a lot like Foxies imo, not only because of the 60's influence but also because of the rev-like descriptions and the aesthetic (I guess). Both Foxies and Longshot are better, but this is a decent continuation of the side projects and Dos. But yes, I must admit that I can't fully shake off feeling somewhat like "are they...okay?", despite the fact that I kind of enjoy the songs and believe that art should be judged independently but...I still can't fully get into the mood, most probably because this era gives me trilogy flashbacks.

Agree 100%, RevRad has some of the most honest and in my opinion also some of the best Green Day lyrics ever. The ones you mentioned are definitely some of my favourites, also: "Hallelujah I found my sould under the sofa pillows" - that's just genious because it makes you laugh first, but when you think about it you find a deeper meaning. That's what I always love about Billie's songwriting and that's what makes him one of the greates songwriters of our time. Yeah, RevRad was a big part of Green Day's and especially Billie's rehabilitation after very troubled times, and that's why it was such an important record for both them and us fans (at least I can say that for myself). And I kind of get that they want to move past this. But what I don't get is that Billie is now talking all of this down by saying that he blames himself for trying to write the "feel good song of the year" (he was specifically talking about Still Breathing) and stuff like that. It makes me sad that he feels like he needs to apologize, and I really wish he could just say in retrospective: "Today I probably wouldn't write it that way anymore, but the song is what it is because that's what I felt back then and it felt right back then." RevRad era was such a happy, personal, positive and also vulnerable time like you said, and right now it feels like he is embarrassed of it. Maybe that's one of the reasons why I can't relate to the new era at all, it just feels like he wants to play the cool, tough guy so much that it feels forced and unnatural. I get that they want to move on, but moving on also means accepting your past and growing through it. Right now it doesn't feel like that, it feel like they're running away.

Agreed. Lyrically, I'd say it's Billie at his most emotionally vulnerable, totally exposed. I wouldn't call that "safe".

I don't think Father of All or Fire, Ready, Aim are really that different for Green Day, to be honest. The higher pitched vocals are new but otherwise they're standard pop punk songs, nothing that out of the ordinary. Kill the DJ was different.

Someone needs to setup a chart or spreadsheet or something to see if there’s a correlation between those who say Revrad was safe and those who don’t like FoAM so far, assuming a lot of their problem with it is that it’s so different 😂😂

@solongfromthestars Yes, yes, yes, yes! Every time I see the complaint about RevRad being "safe" I honestly don't get it. Sure, it may be Green Day doing what they do best and they don't do anything super out of left field, but I've never considered it a safe record. Totally agree with everything you're saying here.

I'd say Rev Rad is their most emotional album because of how straightforward it is. Maybe it's the second after Insomniac, but that's very different.

When you're reading something for work and read the word "uniforms" as "unicorns".

When you see one of the foam fire extinguishers at work and you start to hum along to FOAM

When you don't like unicorns, let alone the Green Day one, but Mr. Foamy Bubbles gets left with you and he's just too cute and starts dancing to Love is for Losers My brain has melted and it's Green Day's fault.

I would but I can't bear to part with old Rumpelstiltskin drinking his Starbucks I guess you know you're a Green Day fan when your potato art looks something like this!

When you think about Billie every time a french bulldog comes into your work. We have a regular named Bella and she's super cute and knows how to high-five and high-ten. Definitely one of my favorite customers!

^^^ no burn that one

When a lesson in one of your College classes contains these words, and I don’t have to finish that sentence.

Hey there! I just got a tattoo of me singing Longview with Billie and I'm in love with it ♡

I thought that too, there were times his backup vocals were awful with Longshot, sure Billie must have noticed or someone close to them told him.

With Bang Bang as a lead single, I will never understand why they opened with KYE on Revrad, I think though it backs up the feelings of the Revrad era being safe, perhaps they had to really work at building their confidence in performing again.

I feel the same way. I’m glad that this tour with two other acts might force them to tighten the setlist a bit. I really have gotten to the point where I strongly dislike them dragging out almost every song. I just wanna hear the song! We don’t need a breakdown in the middle. That said, I do think this band’s interaction with the crowd is very special. No one is a better showman than Billie. They can keep the interaction, but just cool it with the monologues, laying down, excessive heyohs, etc.

HAR is such a banger...I don't care for the routine (even though the bored/falling asleep bit is cute), but the song absolutely needs to stay.