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you know what we can universally agree that they didn't put any effort into? the forever now music video.

We've heard 20% of the album. And about 4% of what the boys have recorded Let's reserve the FOAM hate for after its released, or if you are a hater that's already heard it.....get me a link or copy pronto!!!!!!! Haha. But even on the release day, live with the album a while before hating on it.

Not if you're Green Day, Foo Fighters, RHCP or any other band with a lifetime of hits on alternative radio. The $ comes from the tour.

Green Day isn't really a singles band. They haven't had a Top 100 hit since "Oh Love" debuted at a whopping #97 back in 2012 riding off the coattails of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, and I don't see it happening again anytime soon (or ever again) if they keep cranking out songs like FOAMF. I'm sure mainstream isn't their goal anyway, though "Still Breathing" definitely felt like an attempt at another "21 Guns"/"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" heavy ballad hit. I know Alternative radio always backs the guys, but it's not enough to just throw singles out there if they're not going to do anything substantial other than chart on the Alternative charts for a few weeks before free falling (at least from a label/business perspective.. If we are just talking about releasing music for fun, then hell.. go ahead and release away).

Is it me or are unicorns everywhere now.

😂 Weirdo. I love how he just slipped it in there at the end too it was like “made you look!”

It's frustrated fans who aren't enjoying the output as much as others but think it's because of the input during the recording and creative processes. I lost my head on this topic the other day as I'm a musician who has recorded full albums on my own. It's a lot of work and if it was about effort level they just wouldn't make an album period. GD put a lot of effort into tracking. It's all done with high quality and loads of effort. They're going for something new and not everybody is going to like it. That's more about the opinion of the art than it is about their effort level. I agree about mike but you know how I feel about the effort level. They self produced Rev Rad. They increased their responsibilities on the production of the record so objectively they put more effort into that. The effort Vs the result is two different things. Think about in school. You may have put so much effort on an essay for one class to get just a 70 and in another class you had to sacrifice your time on a project but somehow still got an 85. Life can be full of little disappointments. With the trilogy my questioning doesn't fall on the band. They had over 40 songs ready to go for that recording session. They did it quite quickly as well. I'm speaking from experience here that takes a huge level of effort. It doesn't mean the result will be there but I can guarantee you they put more into it than 99% of us put into our projects at work. It's evident in Cuatro when Mike speaks about the process of putting the trilogy together. Can you name another band in the last 10 years that was able to release a trilogy of albums within a single year or an artist that dropped 37 songs at one time? (to qualify they would have to have written and recorded all the songs themselves) My questions fall into the supporting staff for the trilogy. I didn't like how production was handled but that's just me. The personnel on the albums are all highly regarded professionals.

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That's a lot easier! It helps that KYE doesn't remind me of the McDonalds' ad

I was joking tbh. FRA just sounds like a hockey anthem to me. (A kickass one though, IMO.) But I do have a habit of overanalyzing Green Day songs. 😅 That's the honest version of me listening to FRA. I legit listen to that to jump up and down and feel good. (man, they really failed in their mission to make us all feel bad!) While I do enjoy dissecting songs for their seriosity and analyze lyrics, etc, that ramble about FRA being political was more of a joke lmao. Scattered is an amazing song, especially the vocals IMO. So underrated.

I listened to FRA once and thought it was pretty cool, then later I saw some commercial, I think it was for Mc Donalds' delivery and it had the same bouncy guitar sound with the clap track and since then I felt FRA is such an ad song... I can't bring myself to listen to it.

I’ve just been catching up on Green Day/Cover Ups happenings from this month and I’m just gonna go ahead and say he deserves to be cheated on right about now.

Green Day haven't finished promoted an album since 21st Century Breakdown TEN YEARS AGO. The Trilogy was sidelined due to issues. Rev Rad got 3 singles but then promotion stopped suddenly with that whole "Forever Now/Somewhere Now" single just not happening. Father of All needs to be the one that turns things around in the singles department. At least four, no matter what! If someone in the band is ill, certainly that's more important. But "Stray Heart" had an amazing video, so again. at least four singles. Everybody else is releasing 6 and 7 BEFORE THEIR ALBUM DROPS.

Just saying hi, after doing a huge catch up, and boy have you all brightened my day... Thank you 💚

From Adrienne's IG story:

It would fit any hearing aid commercial tho

You could exercise thinking about KYE and the fact you don’t link it to basketball only because no one remembers it was premiered as a NCAA commercial

I'm chanting this as a mantra to help me get over the bias

What you wrote is actually very close to the meaning of the lyrics according to what the band has told us so far, not a big stretch at all. As someone noted before, kicking the dog is an actual common idiom, and it does link to social media in the context of this song. The song is about social medias and the sick attack without thought colture characterizing them. FRA has not been written for hockey, even if it perfectly fits they way it is used there.

While on first glance FRA seems to be a car-commercial-esque hockey anthem, it is really so much more: Kick the dog when the whistle blows/ you're a liar What's going on in the USA right now? Oh yeah, the whole phone call with the ukrainian president thing, started by the "whistleblower" Don't forget the key lines: Ready Aim Fire/ Fire Ready Aim The world has so many conflicts and wars, and there's all these shootings, etc. it just turns into a whole killing operation. Total war. Firing carelessly, not even thinking about aiming. Intimidation. Attack without thought. Hang on! Attack without thought? That's exactly what the description of FRA says on youtube. "This song is about our daily outrage, attack without thought" or whatever it was... Social media. People attack without thought. They don't think about what they are saying, they just say it and use it to express their daily outrage. And it's so toxic. Whether it's Trump on twitter or just idiots, not just political instigators but people that exist to spread hate on anything. Certain trolls. Racist people. Violent people. Intolerant people. Regular idiots that spam or spread lies just for likes. I just made this song much deeper than it was probably intended to be... 🤣 DISCLAIMER: That analysis was all me off the top of my head. In no way is that the official interpretation of the lyrics. No, I'm not from genius verified. Feel free to disagree.

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I love FBHT, Stop Drop and Roll is probably my favourite thing the boys have done but Fire, Ready, Aim just comes off incredibly lazy to me. Its fun to listen to but it has no depth, they can do so much better.

When you see some coasters in a shop and you think of the coaster scene in Ordinary World.

Today I watched the American Idiot Musical in Austria, they are playing in until February, so if anyone gets the chance to buy tickets, do it! It‘s great!

They really are. It's a unicorn takeover 😂

What was the thing with a Hella Mega website and a guy from The Office with a fake password box? It must have been one of several things I missed while I was away because I have no recollection of it at all It was also played at The Independant (April 7), the DNA Lounge (April 9) and The Uptown (April 15). They've only ever played it as part of the full album, sadly.

that last pic of his recent post 😂

There are so many great comments to this post including a bunch from Kevin. Comedy gold. “Gonna tell my kids this was Green Day” 😂

Because we cheated on him with Panicland

One of my favourite looks this era, smart top and cons!

When you open a window on your advent calendar and it tells you to sing a Christmas song and the 1st song you think of is Xmas Time of the Year (but I can't sing) When you're watching Elf and you think of Billie standing on a box next to Will Ferrell and the time he was on stage with GD for East Jesus Nowhere

@Montclare Done!!! Thanks!! Now I can't wait for a certain someone to get her dead ass out of bed!!!

That 3rd one is priceless

Couple of the boys from the Game Awards:

My mom had a vendor show recently and while she was there she bought a unicorn toy. And I named it Billie Jr.

Green Day won't make another great album until they get away from this "real rock is simple" mentality. It's blatantly not true and I'm surprised that people as well versed in rock's history as they are would say such things. Also, there's simple music that has depth and simple music that's just lazy. GD seems to think lazy = rock n roll. American Idiot wasn't Pink Floyd complex, but it was heartfelt, detailed, and had musical depth. Even FBHT was supposed to be a goofy side project, but boy is that good. Billie's been talking about ADHD music, which apparently to him means not putting a lot of effort into things. I will say that the Longshot was great and probably my favorite era since 21CB. It's a good example of simple music with depth and heart.

When unicorns follow you everywhere.... (my mom gave me this and I laughed so hard. She didn't get it.)

What is your most favourite BJ pic ever? Here's mine...

Yeah this. None of us can help or save him, but that doesn’t mean we can’t be worried. It’s not a conscious decision, it just happens because we care for him. I don’t want to dig too deep into this unwelcomed topic, but just one quick comment about people saying „he’s just having fun“. The thing is, RevRad era was a wonderful example that they can have fun without being excessively drunk. Not saying he never touched a beer back then, I’m sure he did, but things seemed so balanced and totally in control. The videos right now don’t really look like he had one or two beer though. It looks more like 2012 level drinking, which is, at least for me, alarming. And I still kind of rub my eyes in disbelief on how fast they went from „I’m still breathing and happy to be still alive“ to „let’s just party and drink like it’s 2012 and nothing ever happened.“ And it’s not just that one show I’m talking about, but the general vibe of the whole era so far. I sincerely hope I’m wrong and he has it all under control, for his sake and for mine because I’m not ready to go through that shit again. So not ready.

Putting these old Murray Bowles photos in here too (from Green Day's IG story):

RevRad was plenty sexy. 😛 And as for reserved...