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I think this needs to be here. And since we're talking about how boyish and perfect his face is...

I mean they basically only had three weeks of promotion since the album release. They didn’t even manage to get to the east coast, they didn’t even have the chance to play MMOTR that is a single with music video. I don’t see how we can judge a promotional cycle that barely started, and based on that evaluate the band excitement for the new material. Also, Mike mentioned in a few occasions that he was looking forward to play songs like Graffitia and SY, if I recall correctly same did Tre and Billie (who also played a unplugged version of the former). I don’t really see the point here.

How can we judge properly when their promo was halted prematurely by covid though? I don't get why people act like there aren't unprecedented circumstances going on this time around. There was complaining before that Billie was doing stuff alone and that they weren't promoting the album during quarantine. It's like....this is a unique situation. And they also have a new management company. I really think some people are just projecting their feelings about the album onto the band

They released the Manic Monday cover on Spotify today 😎

Manic Monday available on Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music, Deezer, Google Play and iTunes https://greenday.lnk.to/manicmonday

Exactly what I was thinking. Even since at least AI they have played nearly every song from their new albums at least once (with some exceptions). But FOAMs own release party hardly had any new songs and the ones that hey did play were singles that were already released. The album is so short that they could have played at least SOMETHING new that people hadn't heard. It just came off very weird and made it seem like they aren't that into the album.

Awesome! That brings the total to six official new Green Day releases (released under artist Green Day on Spotify: three track Otis EP, ITWAN, Dreaming and Manic Monday) in the last three months alone since FOAM. That’s besides all the other NFM songs. Not bad.

He looks very sweet recently in all these virtual interviews

Did he specificly say no other FOAM songs or just the hits part? Because of course they're going to play hits on a "hella mega tour" co-headlining stadiums with two other bands, it would be pretty pretentious to pick that tour to do a deep cuts setlist lol. They enjoy getting the crowd going with hits anyway and shows like that aren't the time to deviate from that. Maybe they would've played some other smaller shows or done other appearances that allowed them to play more of the songs. But like there's only 10 songs on the album anyway, a decent percentage of them will be played live. Fair enough . I still don't get where the "Green Day doesn't care about the album" thing comes from though, just didn't get that vibe from them.

ITWAN is under Billie's name on spotify. Haven't looked yet, but I would assume Manic Monday would be too. Or am I missing something? I wonder if he'll do Manic Monday on GMA now. Edit- huh. Looks like it's listed under both Billie and GD now on spotify. I'm almost positive ITWAN was only under Billie's name before.

I’m not painting this as a conspiracy theory, but listen to the show where they played 21CB in its entriety, the trilogy era shows where they played lots of new songs, or the revrad release party where they also played quite a few songs from it and then compare with the FOAM release party where they played two singles, botched one of them and then Billie proceeded to forget lyrics to every other song. Sorry it just doesn’t look the same to me

Sure there's a few examples like that but like, bands playing singles when promoting their new album and singles still isn't unusual in any way . They may have come to play some non single songs if covid hadn't capped their activities but if they didn't it still wouldn't mean anything. It seems like major clutching at straws to say that a band playing singles from an album to promo it is something at all remarkable or a cause for concern or indicative of anything.

He does and I cannot fathom why anyone thought we wanted to see that guy interviewing him when we had this beauty to watch!!

A friend recently asked me to give him some recommendations since he basically only knew 21CB and AI songs. He said he had listened to Manic Monday recently and was "underwhelmed" by it lol and was now gonna listen to FOAM (album). I told him 1. that Manic Monday was one of Billie's projects and 2. that FOAM also got mixed opinions because it constitutes a break from "classic Green Day style" (though I still think it's great that he listens to it and makes up his own mind). However, I then obviously recommended he listen to some 90s stuff. And it was while I was doing a run down of all the 90s albums that it really struck me that Nimrod truly is my favourite 90s album, not Dookie. That's not to say I think Dookie is massively overrated, I can absolutely see the appeal and it would easily be in my Top 5 or Top 3 Green Day albums. But I just really love Nimrod so much more. I think it's a more varied, more "mature" (from a song-writing perspective), slightly better produced, but not any less "raw" album than Dookie was. To me, it really is the perfect 90s Green Day album. Almost a kind of "greatest hits", combining the best of each different style and sound that the band was capable of pulling off, but WITHOUT losing their "essence" in the process. Kerplunk is great in terms of song-writing, yes. Dookie is a groundbreaking album, yes. Insomniac is angry, fast, loud, fun and very punk, yes. But Nimrod just feels more complete, like a more "wholistic" approach. To those that rejected it as "Green Day going soft" or something, I think that they purposefully tried to ignore or deny the song-writing skills that this band has that lie beyond just short, fast and punchy alternative rock / punk songs. They'd be the same people to reject American Idiot further down the road, but in my opinion they're really missing out...

When have they ever played anything outside of their singles when initially promoting a new album and the songs they're releasing from it? They would've played more on the tour. There's only 10 songs on the album lol, and playing singles when appearing on TV shows is standard.

that second pic

Me neither. He’s too mischievous to be trusted. Think of that guy he talked into having his ass branded. Having him do your hair could be a slippery slope.

I don’t think they were/acted unexcited about FOAM. It’s not their role and responsibility to build a promotional campaign that works. Whenever they had the chance to talk about and promote the record they didn’t sound unexcited to me. We can agree that the promotion of that record didn’t work out very well, but I don’t think that band is to blame for Crush strategy. Or for the fact that it was a promotion campaign largely based on a tour that will not happen for at least another year.

Yes, his baby face definitely helps. I think he always has that boyish look on his face with his wide eyes, chubby cheeks and full lips. So, it's definitely the main reason of my Billie obssesion lol

I never thought they weren't excited about FOAM. I know they seemed that way in interviews, but they do a ton of those per day, answering the same questions. Of course, they're gonna get bored with that. We also don't know what else was going on with them at that time. And I think it's been mentioned that around promotion is when SWMRS had that bad accident, so that may have been weighing on them too. If anything, I think they're bummed that this whole thing pretty much killed further promotion for FOAM.

Geez this community is always so overdramatic One week without NFM (after getting 3 [three] songs in one week) and you start thinking about the band breaking up and whatsoever I think we should just enjoy these covers for what they are, Billie getting bored and recording a bunch of songs out of his music library. If an album will ever be released out of this it will be more for collectors’ sake than for commercial reasons, as fun and good as they can be, these are a bunch of demo-covers. They play in a totally different league than any GD record, and IMHO they can show us something about what music Billie likes to play and listen to, but not much more. Of course there is that part of the fanbase that hates FOAM and that musical direction so much that even this bunch of power pop covers is better than it, but this doesn’t change the nature of the NFM project. A fun activity to entertain us and Billie himself, that nothing says about the future of this band. Which I hope will still be very, very, very long.

Leave deep cuts for South American shows. Hella Mega won't be different than the RevRad tour in setlist terms What I see possible, is that Green Day will be playing something of this covers. Mainly ITWAAN and Manic Monday. It will be a good break from Knowledge

It’s been a long week this week, with no Monday release. ☹️ Even though we got ‘extras’ last week.

-Cattle club, Sacramento, 1994 -Bullet in a bible concert, Milton Keynes 2005 -Anything from the 21CB tour I always thought this. Excluding AI, because that’s such an incredible album that it’s incomparable to others, nimrod was always my favourite album. Don’t get me wrong Dookie is incredible and is generally a really fun album all round with unbelievable songwriting, but the mix of songs on nimrod is absolutely brilliant, and like you said it’s much more mature from a songwriting perspective. They’ve still got fast and punky songs like haushinka, jinx and i hate you, but with absolute gems like hitchin a ride, prosthetic head and redundant and then random genre switches like last ride in and good riddance, it’s generally just a genius album

Manic Monday underwhelming? That's how I would describe the original version

Billie said in an interview that they wouldn't play other FOAM songs on the tour. Just the hits. Promo ended way before COVID shut things down. I don't count the HM tour as promo.

It wasn’t. When ITWAN came out it was under both the same way.

They have both been released under both BJA and Green Day artist profiles on Spotify. Look them up under Green Day they are there under latest singles alongside Dreaming.

Ha, you are right, couldn’t see it at all and now can’t work out why 😂

It’s the microphone. Took me a while to figure it out.

It's on itunes now. Yay!

I think he may (I think Mike has for years) but I think maybe it’s just that he is needing glasses for reading but is finding he wears them more and more, often happens (I hate to say it) at his age 😂. He really suits his glasses, seems to have quite a few pairs, often spotted hanging from the neck oh his t-shirt. Even did this on the performances of Ordinary World for Conan.

I so far have heard Billie's "I Think We're Alone Now" three times on the radio which is three times more than any song off of FOAM

Had a weird dream last night. In the dream I ran into Joey, Cole and Max from Swmrs. They didn't know me but I introduced myself and told them I was also a musician. Max was really friendly and Cole was the furthest from me so I didn't have an interaction with him. Joey kinda seemed uninterested but he told me to stick around and hang out. I think they had a small club gig so I offered to help and serve as a tech for them. Joey was helping Cole with a guitar and he was like hey can do you me a favor and call my dad and tell him this (I can't remember what it was). I froze up in the dream when he asked that lol I dialed but Billie didn't answer but he had one hell of a voicemail greeting! That would be pretty cool

Also has 1.2M views on Youtube Corden performance has 916K views

@pacejunkie punk @Squashie @Beerjeezus Weren't you guys looking for this?

ITWAN didn't hit any new peaks this week, but did hit 2 million on spotify today.

They barely played any new songs. Odd that a band excited about their new music didn't play anything outside of their singles.

Pouty Joe Armstrong

Maybe??? I still think it’s impossible, but his chubby cheeks likely help the illusion too It’s totally a baby face. He looks like an adorable gay grandma

The face you make when they say hair stylists are non-essential.

Completely different thing. It’s like comparing apples to oranges. There would be a major curiosity factor, and a familiarity and comfort with a lot of the songs. Also, FOAM was unpopular from the first single because it was a very different sound, and some might argue the sound didn’t work for them. Also the image they projected was off-putting. NFM has been very well received from the beginning and people are clamoring for all of the songs to be on streaming. Also, it all seems very natural and not forced.

A few screenshots/collages from today’s interview

Tiffany on Billie Joe's version of "I Think We're Alone Now": "I love his version...it's a great song. It's found so many different homes. So, yeah, kudos to Billie, I really love it." http://abcnewsradioonline.com/music-news/2020/5/26/tiffany-on-billie-joes-version-of-i-think-were-alone-now-con.html

Personal connection with fans is important to me, and that has definitely decreased. Probably because he’s busy recording. And I’ve really enjoyed NFM. But for me, and of course this is opinion, the songs are starting to sound the same. Because they are very similar for the last few. If he does continue, I hope he goes in a different direction as far as songs he chooses to cover.