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Billie has deleted his last post from The Longshot instagram so I'm posting it from the Billie Joe Armstrong account as they were the same: I'd taken screenshots of these comments to post before it got deleted:

They'll release a special Christmas version of the FOAMF single titled "Father Christmas of all..." Ho Ho, come on, honey Ho Ho, count your money Ho Ho, what's so funny? There's a Christmas pudding inside of us

I was keeping track of my post count, as I was approaching 5K, but it got away from me and before I knew it I was past that. So... let me belatedly celebrate my 5,000th post with some hot Billie pics!

When you see this in a public toilet/restroom and immediately think of The Network

I was on Getty Images looking for pictures from the MTV show in Seville and found these cool pictures of Billie some of which I hadn't seen before: I love this one - it's such a cool action shot

I think snarky retorts to haters is pretty on-brand for Billie. I wouldn’t expect anything less from the guy who has drop kicked a fan and thrown guitars at shows. The day Billie starts being passive is the day I’ll wonder what happened to him.

When you have no interest in unicorns but you come from Target with two of them

The gif I wanted to post earlier

Article here from Stereoboard - Not Quite Hella Mega: How 'Warning:' Quietly Set The Table For Green Day's Blockbuster Era https://www.stereoboard.com/content/view/225984/9 When the Hella Mega tour rolls into stadiums next summer, Green Day will be right at home. From its name on down the trek—which will find the pop-punk veterans joined by emo survivors Fall Out Boy and alt-rock provocateurs Weezer—is poised to embrace spectacle at each turn, wringing every available drop of goofy grandeur from the headliners’ latter day sense of pomp and circumstance. But lurking just around the corner from the confetti blasts and audience participation is an anniversary that shines a light on a time in Green Day’s history when concept albums, pyro and crowd-pleasing weren’t on the agenda. Next autumn, their divisive sixth LP, ‘Warning:’, turns 20. At no point could this group of songs have been slapped with the title ‘Father of All Motherfuckers’. First, let’s luxuriate in some numbers to set the scene. Each Green Day album released between 1991 and 1997 has achieved Platinum status (at least) in the US. ‘Dookie’ has gone Diamond after passing 10 million sales. Two decades on, ‘Warning:’ is stuck on Gold. Honestly, look at this loser. And its outlier status has only been rammed home by the fact that the band almost immediately ditched its stylistic bent in favour of the black shirt/red tie amateur dramatics of ‘American Idiot’, an album that itself has just marked a major birthday by turning 15. That has gone Platinum six times over, if you’re asking. The reasons for ‘Warning:’ being cut adrift are almost entirely contextual. After the snotty clapback to success that was ‘Insomniac’, 1995’s rapidfire follow up to ‘Dookie’, and the manner in which 1997’s sprawling ‘Nimrod’ found fresh levels of maturity within their existing sound, it served as a culmination of sorts to a difficult period of creative soul-searching. Green Day, they wanted us to understand, was a band populated by grown ups who liked British Invasion pop, not a potential empty gesture from some punk kids who’d used three chords to unlock the Federal Reserve. They might have spent the summer completing another Warped Tour trek, but as autumn approached they sought for ‘Warning:’ to be taken seriously, because they took themselves seriously. “I think our antics sort of get in the way of what people think,” Billie Joe Armstrong told Rolling Stone at the time of its release. “But I think this one, for me personally, was a lot more articulate than the last one. The last couple of records I feel were sort of reacting to a time period, but this time I think we’re making an action, and I think we’re making bolder statements than we ever have before.” Those statements, though, were presented in a manner that was more Roger McGuinn than 924 Gilman. The title track, an outrageous lift of the Kinks’ Picture Book, is an ideal scene-setter. Its loping acoustic stride leads into the peppy Blood, Sex and Booze and Church on Sunday. Both land somewhere between the Sonics’ garage-rock yowl and straight up Rickenbacker jangle—close enough to the middle of the road for some diehards to reach for rock’s emptiest, most dispiriting phrase: sellout. ‘Warning:’ was relatively well reviewed, but met with a lukewarm response on the street. The reality, though, is that these are entirely passable Green Day songs. With a little more dirt under their fingernails, they could have been issued at any point in the preceding decade (perhaps as b-sides if we’re talking ‘94-’97). See if you can find MTV’s 2000 Live Without Warning special online—Church on Sunday is the second cab off the rank and sounds like something culled from ‘Kerplunk’ in a live setting. What ‘Warning:’ did was quietly double down on some of the theatricality and open-hearted emoting that would allow Green Day to transition into their Bush-baiting blockbuster era. While their sound would soon shift gears again—the title track from ‘American Idiot’ replaced the Kinks as wounded party with Dillinger Four—many of the core materials were already in place four years earlier, and in some cases existed as far back as ‘Nimrod’. They were essentially hiding in plain sight. In the title track and the furiously overblown march of Minority, there are embryonic versions of the banner-sized slogans that lit up ‘American Idiot’. “One light, one mind, flashing in the dark,” Billie Joe sings. “Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts. ‘For crying out loud,’ she screamed unto me. A free-for-all, fuck 'em all.” Jesus of Suburbia, much? For further foreshadowing, drink in the maudlin closer Macy’s Day Parade, which takes an American cultural standard and tips it on its head. “The night of the living dead is on its way, with a credit report for duty call, it's a lifetime guarantee,” Billie Joe earnestly drawls. “Stuffed in a coffin ‘10% more free’.” If these exercises in low-key rabble rousing feel a little awkward and unsure of themselves, particularly the broadly execrable Minority, they do ensure that ‘Warning:’ isn’t entirely cut adrift in the broader narrative. With hindsight they also suggest that ‘American Idiot’ wasn’t as much of an about face as it initially appeared. That record’s politics were inescapably of their time in a post-9/11, mid-Iraq War America—Green Day’s noisy awakening as a political band was almost entirely reactionary, but Green Day are a reactionary band. The skyscraping ‘American Idiot’ was a completely on brand response to the muted reception that awaited ‘Warning:’. It’s the nihilism of ‘Insomniac’ vs. the runaway success of ‘Dookie’ all over again. But its form, thematic cogency and soapbox grandstanding would stick around through ‘21st Century Breakdown’ and beyond as the band embraced a ‘size matters’ approach. That reality has essentially divided their discography into pre-and-post ‘American Idiot’, which is the distinction that causes ‘Warning:’ to stick out. It doesn’t really fit in either camp—it’s the forgotten pitcher who throws the eighth inning and allows the closer to clinch the pennant. Fifteen years along the line, ‘American Idiot’ reigns as one of the crucial late period reinventions in modern American rock, and also as the defining factor in Green Day being able to stage spectacles with the scale and gleeful lack of subtlety that will characterise Hella Mega. The ‘Warning:’-era trio were on a different wavelength, but they’d probably find a few things to get on board with among the fire and festivities. It’s their show too.

this is so reletable to me as i'm writing something for uni rn step one: fancy opening paragraph step two: data data data look i did research step three: therefore, i've come to the conclusion that everything is FINE which means this paper is thereby over

He didn't come across as that angry to me in this case. It seemed more like he was just trying to make a joke of a stupid comment. I laughed at his reply, anyway

I think it's just funny as fuck

Writing "the new shit you put out sound like a fuckin car commercial bruh" on a completely unrelated post on his side band's instagram that he uses for fun isn't exactly what I'd call "feedback", the guy was looking to provoke and the reply was funny and deserved.

He doesn't need to do anything, fucking hilarious reply.

When you fire up Breath of the Wild for the first time in a long while and do the quest for the white stallion just so you can name it FOAM and take it to a stable worker to dye its mane and tail bright red and orange, thus essentially turning it into the GD unicorn (minus the horn). Zelda fans will understand.

It's official - Green Day have sent me completely insane! Unicorns have taken over my grocery shopping Featuring Mr Foamy Bubbles and Huevos! I can confirm the ice cream was delicious!

new topic — Kevin giving Billie a hard on 🙂 Eat your heart out Jeff, that’s some damn fine guitar playing. 6 to midnight indeed 💕

I can't stop watching Billies dodgy dad dancing at 36:55 and also 37:47

Mike’s posts make me laugh. Love that guy.

That's such a cool photo

The irony is the song they are complaining about is a song that is specifically about this kind of toxic internet culture so it kind of proves his point for them to react over it.

But not the person who’s shitting all over his comments on his side account that’s to get away from people who are shitting on his comments on his bja account? No that’s not embarrassing at all. Not to mention that if you look at the KomnunistKlub account, she obviously has this weird obsession/hate dynamic going on with Billie.

The person who started the thing reposted some of it, there’s another comment from him here. He’s actually being pretty funny, he checked her profile and mocked her for it (the comments are brutal though so be warned)

I don't think I've ever seen that last pic before. I can't stop staring into those big beautiful eyes, they're so hypnotizing.😍😍😍

There was another too, I don’t know how many there were back and forth but it must have gotten ugly. Here’s another: longshot: “It’s song time! Ready gang! “Mama just killed a man” 🎶” He sounded pissed 😄 Shame to see assholes on the Longshot account now that was always a safer space for him with a smaller group of followers. 😖

@Billie Joe's Eyelids @Sheenius, I've already asked The Bellie to drop this so can you do the same please. GDC isn't a place for personal comments to be made and arguments to be played out in threads. If someone is making personal comments about you or trying to start something with you then reporting it is an option. No more off topic and/or personal comments please, this thread is for discussing Green Day Instagram photos.

Not gonna happen, but I hope they open with Going to Pasalacqua on this tour. Pretty far fetched though

Yeah that 37:47...also his Elvis karate moves at 37:55...lol🤣

It’s all hearsay. The person that commented on the official FOAMF video was a musician who worked with Butch Walker and said he saw the original video for the song. That was convincing to me but opinions will vary of course it’s unsupported. It just didn’t have the feel of a hoax but a genuine comment asking what happened to that first video.

My prediction would be 3rd song released late November followed by 4th song in mid January to build momentum for album release in Feb. December not a great time to release new music because it’ll get lost in the festive mania.....case in point !Tre! (although I appreciate other factors at play there too).

I like when he looks at the persons profile and finds something to mock back at, like he did with the guy with the Speedo that time. That was funny. I think he just has his fun and deletes the whole mess when it’s done. He might not even be that mad.

Hahaha he's so stupid komunistkola is the only true icon from now on

FOAM just came on my playlist & I seriously sang your version😋

Omg I forgot about that part! I love Get Him to the Greek and I remember freaking out in the theater when I heard it!

I know green day songs typically don't appear on good movies but i just randomly saw Stop, Drop and Roll in Get Him To The Greek and I must say it's very appropriately used during a gag that involves an asshole 10/10

I couldn’t agree more

Yeah I noticed even during the Kevin and Bean show Billie said “we released a new song, Fire, Ready, Aim”. He didn’t say, we released a new single. So this song wasn’t meant to be a single. That means the official second single is still to come.

I sure hope not. I’d like it if we got another single before the end of the year

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.

We learned about it in school and I couldn't believe it until I googled it and saw for myself

When you still won't forgive an old high school friend for saying American Idiot had "too many guitars" 🙄

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

From last night:

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

Your dad is right Or they're doing this shitty tour to cover up the fact that they're cutting off an hour from their set either way... what was first the chicken or the egg?