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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!

@The Bellie Yes, I agree. Those ones are great too. I was more thinking about the clothes. lol His hair!

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

Everyone looks so cool (and I love Mike's tshirt) but dammit the ketchup logo is ugly

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 😄

from Marina Chavez Photography

"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

No but Mike is a pot farmer now so he could if you wanted him to 😄

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 walked past this store at Water Tower the other day if you're looking for ideas.

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.

I can honestly say as a Scot who is against independence and a Brit who is against Brexit - believe me, I really don’t want to get into any of that here - I can totally agree with the feeling of wanting to turn my back on it all and just say bring on the unicorns and fuck of and dance. 😂

I was thinking something somewhat similar. I didn't get it at first when people were making comparisons to the Foxies, largely because I see the Foxies as superior to the two songs we've gotten so far (although I do like them), and then I saw someone on reddit say it's like running the Foxies through a bubble gum filter which made sense, and another person call it the FBHT part three, which made me think, how often does someone say part 3 of a movie series is the best one? Regarding the weird song descriptions, I was thinking if Billie was saying them as the Rev, a character (somewhat), I'd enjoy them. But as Billie, yeah, I'm a bit hesitant. Part of me throws up my shoulders and says, what can you do, might as well enjoy the ride, but there still is that nervousness in the back of my head.

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.

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 😂😂

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.

I don't think RevRad was all that "safe." Musically it wasn't especially adventurous, but there are some notable moments. Somewhere Now got shit when it came out for being so "chill." The way it comes full circle with Forever Now is pretty unique. The only similarity I can think of is 21st Century Breakdown and See the Light, but I'd call those "bookends" rather than coming full circle. If I compared Say Goodbye to another Green Day song, just sonically it'd be East Jesus Nowhere, but that was a new sound for them at the time. Outlaws has a different, more haunting sound to other Green Day ballads like 21 Guns. It's unique in the way it follows up songs like Christie Road from a middle-aged man's point of view. Still Breathing is basically pop (and I love it). Most songs on RevRad don't really sound like another Green Day song. The thing that really sets it apart from all other Green Day songs, though, is how openly personal it is. Don't get me wrong, Green Day songs have always been personal. Billie making his struggles so catchy is part of what defines Green Day and makes them popular. That personal element is usually hidden by metaphors and those catchy tunes, though, like a bandaged wound we can't quite see. RevRad is like an open wound. The world knew what Billie was going through and what he'd be singing about. Lines like "my name is Billie and I'm freaking out" sound shallow on the surface because they're so simple, but they're simple because real life isn't lived in metaphors. No one stands up at an AA meeting and says "troubled times, I know I cannot lie, I'm off the wagon and I'm hitchin' a ride." Billie called Still Breathing one of the most personal songs he's ever written and I can see why. "My head's above the rain and roses," "making my way to you," "are you scared to death to live?" and "I've been running all my life" are such vulnerable lines. Even "how did a life on the wild side ever get so dull/full?" and "I ain't gonna stand in line no more," with the way it's screamed are. I find Ordinary World as intimate as the rest of the album, too. Money and fame don't mean someone has everything. Billie spent most of RevRad singing about his issues, so obviously he still has them. The world has issues, too. But he's telling the subject that regardless, what they have together is more than enough and he accepts a life that isn't perfect. Whatever I think of this current era, I can see why he doesn't want to write from that point of view anymore.

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

I think you may need to get special permission to change that avatar to anything! It’s one of my favs 😍😍

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.

When: Look what Green Day made me do! Or should I say buy! I hate the unicorn but this little fella was just too cute to ignore the reference! Should I call him Foamy or Bubbles?

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!

When you see a street sign that says Longview and wonder how bad the consequences are if you were to steal it to hang on your wall.

^^^ 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 ♡

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.