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He's so smiley! I love seeing him smile like that. It makes me really happy to see him so happy.

When you howl with laughter when you see a unicorn ring toss game in a shop . Basically someone wears a unicorn horn on their head and other people toss the rings to try to land a ring on the horn .

Just found this really cool old photo of Billie:

I loved the songs pretty much right away too. The thing that excites me about this new era is that I feel like the album is gonna be a blending of all the musical styles we’ve ever heard from Green Day over its evolution. Instead of one thing or another (the punk album, the rock opera...) you’re gonna hear elements of punk, power pop, rock, garage, funk, etc. in a blender, taking everything they’ve ever experimented with and applying it in one genre fluid sound and making something entirely new. I don’t know if anyone else is familiar with Elvis Costello’s long and varied career but I felt a similar rush of excitement when I first heard his album Momofuku because to me it sounded like a master’s thesis, a culmination of all of the musical influences he had acquired over the decades and applied together to create this one beautiful thing in a whole new way. Hearing FOAMF and FRA gives me that same feeling that Green Day have reached this level.

I came across this. I know nothing about this guy, and this video is not what I expected. As he’s a voice coach I was hoping for something interesting about Billie’s delivery, different voices, growl, something, and about the only thing he says about the singing is that there are other voices in there at times, not the work of a genius. However, I was really interested in what he said about the band and the song because this is what I hear. I really don’t get all the comments about it being lazy!

I must be the odd one out then, because I dug the two songs within a day or two of hearing them. I don’t know about each person individually, but I’m not looking for Kubrick-esque complexity in Green Day. I just wanna rock the fuck out and have a good time. And I say that as someone who’s favorite album of all time is American Idiot.

When you come back from MTV World Stage in Seville with another unicorn! Well I had to buy this one because they looked like the one on the FOAMF album cover As you can see they even had a photoshoot in Lisbon on our way home!

From MTV UK article:

I saw that and thought the same thing. I was hoping he would break it down and describe the vocal from a technical standpoint but he really doesn’t, he mostly just listens along and praises it. Glad he likes it though.

Billie from Joey's Instagram Story:

Yes that exactly! The vocals as well. The vocals are building tension in the song and that's a technique that Elvis Costello has used time and time again. Green Day has a lot of songs that are somewhat of an ode to another movement or time in music. Another one is She's A Rebel which is practically Boxcar by Jawbreaker. Good Riddance is an ode to Newfie Campfires

FRA reminds me of Elvis Costello I really love his music and I love his little comment about The Clash. He said he heard their first album and it was awful! But... he found himself listening to it over and over and over and after hearing it straight like 3-4 times in a single night he wrote Watching The Detectives. This kind of reminds me of when I first heard The Replacements. I laughed hard when I read it.

I hope this shit leaks like 2 months early.

Some photos and screenshots from the Seville show

I read this as "belch" and immediately went "oh god, this. again." That's when you know you're a gd fan.

I like this guy lmao I was expecting more actual vocal breakdown rather than him speaking about the drumming

Stop saying you're dreaming when all of that is true.

I've had several GD dreams the past couple of days, but I can't really remember them. One of the ones I had last night I think involved GD playing for a bunch of aliens that had taken earth hostage or something.

I remember that story! And yes, FRA has total Attractions vibes with that piano and organ. It jumps out at me every time, it’s Pump It Up, it’s Radio Radio, etc.

Didn't Sheenius call semi-retirement last week? Sounds like semi-retirement to me. Can you hear the semi-retirement over the hill?

Green Day should just flex on the super bowl and play Sweet Victory before the concert

Dork https://mobile.twitter.com/BillieJoeGifs/status/1192476319474278400

Great photos, thanks @solongfromthestars and @Rumpelstiltskin2000 🤗

I’m loving the sneak peeks of his mid-section recently.

It might have something to do with decreasing quality

Don't worry, once GD releases the album after FOAM then people will look back on FOA and FRA and remember how great they were. It's a weird pattern that happens with all their releases. The previous one suddenly doesn't seem that bad

Couple more from the MTV awards:

Easy now. I’m not saying Father of All... is their best work, but it’s certainly not an unlistenable monstrosity that can’t be salvaged. Even you have to admit that people were initially quick to toss it under the bus when they realized it wasn’t as complex as the rumored “Magnum Opus of the Inglorious Kind”.

You cant honestly compare the quality of those two songs to Nimrod or Warning. I love Green Day more than anyone but come on

It kind of makes sense, in my opinion. We got used to the complex music, so now the simple songs sound a little low-effort.

(This is not meant to call anybody out, or take jabs at anybody. This is just my personal opinion.) I find the initial reaction to both Father of All... and Fire, Ready, Aim kinda ironic. Back when Nimrod and Warning came out, it was blasphemous that Green Day would want to make more complex music, both lyrically and sonically. Now? Complete 180. The band that made American Idiot wants to make fun, simple songs, whaaa??

You're not aware of anything. You're giving yourself and Alison way too much importance. I'm not trying to get back at anyone. I say what I think on what I read. Here, with you, I was being polite. From the start, it's rather her that has been passive aggressive towards me (I don't reply in place of people whom I ignore the rest of the time, to mention only that), and she still is, and you're taking part in it, in a way that I find risible. I have the impression to be back in kindergarten. But that's fine, I don't expect anything more of that person and whomever she makes to take part in anything, given the way she's already behaved regarding me. Call me out on what you want, you sound amusing. "To each their own" is something I believe in (on the contrary to you, apparently, you seem to have a problem with my opinions and expression of them), there was nothing transparent because there was nothing else to read. You should be a little more humble about lending thoughts gratuitously to someone. This is not a nonsense topic, not for me anyway. You're pretending that it is to have a pretext to "call me out". Or else you really don't know what I find nonsense or not, and you're again lending me thoughts that aren't mine. So classy. I never said the word invasive to begin with, if you read my previous post I said that for me it was clear this person wanted to be asked about it. Common sense is subjective. This whole question is subjective. I seem to be the only one okay with that. I don't mind that other people think different. But for these people, me thinking different and expressing it means I have a hidden agenda? Laughable. I don't like the people who have harmed me, that seems just normal. It however doesn't interfere with expressing myself on here, as I've always done. I don't read Alison's posts anymore. I don't ask anyone to speak in my place to reply to one particular person and exert pressure on that person. Who is the one passive aggressive? It seems that disagreeing with an opinion shared by some members is just taboo, and stating an opinion about some actions that could be taken (the persons involved don't matter to me, on the contrary to what @Billie Joe's Eyelids insinuates, besides there could be plenty of them) is too. Or else I missed something.

That first pic of Billie Joe 😍 😍 I love these guys on the red carpet, in among all the plastics parading around trying to look perfect and then up pop Green Day 😂

Mike & Skrillex

with Flea!!!