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Same. I don’t like big muscly guys and I don’t find big abs/pecs really attractive. Billie has a nice body, not scrawny, but it also doesn’t look like he’s a gym idiot whose two braincells are occupied by protein powder and bench workouts. A bit of chubiness isn’t a problem, it looks healthy.

Yes, I think Billie has a beautiful body. I love his slightly weird physique with his long back/shorter leg build, and his natural muscles, firm from guitar playing and just doing what he does. I never liked the body builder type, will always prefer natural. I like his muscular legs too, again they just seem natural for him and his slight but strong build, at least that’s how he looks to me. He’s nearing 50 so staying trim gets harder each year, I don’t think he cares about abs and you will see lots of admiration for all of him if you read this thread 😁 and yes, I really mean all of him.

I all agree. His body is a beautiful one, also his hands too. There are lots of fans of them too lol These pics are so beautiful btw, especially I’m in love with the second one 🖤

Agree with the comments. He’s perfect to me. I don’t like big muscles or a lot of definition but he’s definitely not scrawny either or chubby. Also I don’t like body hair so the fact that he’s smooth and the tattoos? Yeah.

A young blue in the beginning!

Billie answered this comment from IGTV post

These are from the same night. I look through different forum sites’ past topics recently and find a lot of gems there lol And I found this photo in higher quality lol His legs

https://thehardtimes.net/music/punk-unsure-green-day-records-hes-allowed-like/?fbclid=IwAR3nnR-2GrhUwiTyQbxVIedSLFjq__YCWN44X6AHWr8ZICWgcnLCqPm_C4I The Hard Times is hilarious as always

This is so damn good.

Kim Wilde seal of Approval 😀

Estelle IG story

My god the guitars sound so great in Kids in America

I don’t wanna spam here so much but this pic. I’m honestly obsessed. Especially with his eyelashes, looks so pretty..

ITWAN chart update Hot Rock- 14 (down from 11) Adult Pop- 14 (up from 15) Adult Contemporary- 27 (up from 28) Rock Digital Sales- off list Canadian Adult Contemporary- 43 (up from 48) Canadian Rock- 47 (new on chart)

Love these pics I’m happy that I could finally find this pic without any watermark, made my day lol

Yeah he used replicas during Nimrod era too he joked about it onstage sometimes when he’d switch guitars. But I don’t think he meant to say that he never used replicas, just that in addition he always played Blue and he did. The replicas I think were like alternates.

I heard Wild One on Venus once

Wow, he looks absolutely perfect in that picture! Can't believe I've never seen it before.

Just played "Loss of Control" on guitar and it was so much fun! TRILOGY ROCKS!!!!! Uno, Dos and Tre are a Magnum Opus of the Inglorious Kind. They are the Father of All!

Bit about American Idiot around 8:50.

Joan Jett: The Godmother of Pop-Punk One of the highlights on Green Day’s recent career-reviving album, Father of All Motherfuckers, is the song “Oh Yeah!” which takes its title, its earworm chorus and its sizzling guitar riff from the 1980 track “Do You Wanna Touch Me? (Oh Yeah)” by Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong wrote new verses to vent his disdain for social-media narcissism, but the chorus’s shotgun marriage of melodic hook and slam-bang beat remains irresistible. If they wanted to climb out of their 21st-century slump of straining-for-meaning concept albums, Green Day couldn’t have adopted a better role model than Jett. She understood better than anyone that if you’re going to strip rock ’n’ roll down to its 4/4 basics, you’d better add a catchy sweetener. Otherwise you’re going to sound merely mechanical, even if you get as loud as Jett’s hard-rock peers in the ’80s or as fast as Green Day’s punk peers in the ’90s. Fortunately, both Armstrong and Jett have a rare gift for inventing—or borrowing—four-bar phrases that are familiar enough to feel comfortable, new enough to feel memorable and rhythmic enough to be heard in the hips as well as the ears. This is a different gift than that of, say, Paul McCartney or Taylor Swift, who can spin out a melody that stays interesting over 32 bars. This is distilling all the tuneful pleasure in a song into a few lines that can be pounded home without ever losing their appeal. This was a talent that Green Day demonstrated on their brilliant first three albums for Reprise (1994’s Dookie, 1995’s Insomniac and 1997’s Nimrod). It’s a skill they foolishly laid aside for their overblown and overrated rock opera American Idiot and its hapless sequel, 21st Century Breakdown. It’s a knack they’ve recovered on The Father of All Motherfuckers. For the new record, the trio of Armstrong, drummer Tre Cool and bassist Mike Dirnt (together since 1991) slow the tempos a bit to put them more in Jett’s ballpark and thus reveal her influence as never before. Most of the record bolsters a Blackhearts’ stomp with high-pitched vocals, handclaps and sparkles of electronica enhancing the hooks. Former glam-rocker Butch Walker was the co-producer, and he nudged the sound in Jett’s direction. Armstrong’s lyrics are still those of a mallrat cynic (“I am a kid of a bad education,” he sings on “Oh Yeah!” “The shooting star of a lowered expectation”), but the verbal pessimism is countered by the musical optimism of the choruses. On the title track and first single, for example, he invites a would-be lover to join him “in a bed of blood and money.” The words are purposefully off-putting, but the rave-up music is powerfully seductive. The second single, “Ready, Aim, Fire,” begins with the line, “Kick the dog when the whistle blows,” but the chorus is so galvanizing that the National Hockey League adopted it for a national broadcast. Much of the album is compellingly danceable, even if Armstrong describes himself as “crawling across the dance floor; I think I lost my phone.” That comes from “Meet Me on the Roof,” a song so giddily happy sounding that it justifies to its similarity to “Up on the Roof,” the song that Carole King and Gerry Goffin wrote for the Drifters. “Stab You in the Heart” borrows its intro from the Beatles’ “A Hard Day’s Night” and its bass line from the Beatles’ “Dizzy Miss Lizzy.” The handclaps from Jett’s “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll” are all over Green Day’s “Graffitia.” So much for punk purity. Green Day is not the only California band channeling Jett in 2020. On the duo’s new album, Always Tomorrow, Best Coast sounds more like Jett than ever. https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/joan-jett/joan-jett-godmother-of-power-pop/ NME Recommends: need for speed – the best albums under 30 minutes ‘Father Of All…’ At 10 tracks and little over 25 minutes long, there’s no time for any existential angst on Green Day‘s latest effort. “Hurry up ’cause I’m making a fuss,” spits Billie Joe Armstrong on the record’s titular opener, “fingers up ’cause there’s no one to trust”. That’s the record’s M.O. It’s a quick-fire, breakneck rush of garage rock fun. Their intent is laid bare when comparing two of the band’s record sleeves: ‘American Idiot’ was a heart like a hand grenade, ‘Father Of All’ is a unicorn puking a rainbow. Don’t try to make sense of it, just enjoy. https://www.nme.com/features/nme-recommends-best-albums-under-30-minutes-2653221

I love him in beanies 😍

This is the best cover I ever heard in my lif

Omg yes! Billie and 80's pop rock songs are a match made in heaven

And the curve of his back..... I could go on and on...

Probably a hungover

Birthday wishes from Larry Livermore

Me too. He has a little resume now I’m sad that both Corden and this soap opera news site only mentioned the Broadway musical as his acting credit. Ordinary World was a huge central role even as an independent film. They could’ve mentioned it considering it’s on Netflix now. And that’s not to mention the several other smaller things he’s done.

Thanks this absolutely convinced me

Who wasn't an insider for FOAM on GDC?