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I think Billie's voice was the thing that made me get into Green Day. The majority of singers' voices are either annoying or uninteresting, and most singers in GD's genre all have the same affected whiny voice, and that stops me getting into them at the first hurdle. Billie's voice is wonderful to listen to.

He has a whole lot of soul in Brutal Love

I completely understand if you don’t like his voice, I have artists who I feel exactly the same about, just can’t help it nor explain it, I just find it really interesting that you can then like the band, I know I can’t in my case. I think though, you have possibly picked his worst two live vocal performances in his entire career which seems a little harsh. Lots of people don’t like a falsetto, I’m not mad keen on it, but I will always support an artist trying something new and I think he totally nails it on Degenerate.

I whipped up some delicious Fink gifs for you fangirls. Enjoy I spent WAY too long on these

Okay fangirls, I've listened to The Network album a few times now and @Hermione was right...these Fink vocals..... *shudders* His singing on "Degenerate" and "The Art of the Deal with the Devil" make me melt. I don't know what it is, but lately Fink is really doing it for me. Move over Billie, step aside [REDACTED], Kevin....well Kevin can stay put. But FINK! OH MY LORD. Whenever his songs come on the new record my mind goes fkasjfoudshgosjngklajedsfh because I can't handle it. And I'm not gonna lie, some NFM and Foxies came on shuffle after the album was done and man, Billie's voice is really doing it for me lately. It's giving me chills and...other feelings. *fans self* Is it suddenly getting hot in here?

Billie in sunglasses is cool (he can even rock women's sunglasses) but Billie in regular glasses is surprisingly one of his hottest looks ever. Wish we saw him in them more. For example:

I don't know if these were posted already, but I found these HQ press photos on an official Warner Records website: (cropped version): https://press.warnerrecords.com/billie-joe-armstrong/

LOL I just noticed the only person they follow on twitter is Elon Musk

It would cause Horny to do what he does best:

For me, Billie's voice is like a shot of dopamine or serotonin. I can come out of a bad meeting, put on GD, and, well, picture a long contented sigh and blood pressure going down. It doesn't matter what song it is. That's why I had such a hard time believing the Viva Death songs were him; I just wasn't getting that same feeling when listening to them. His voice just has an effect on me that no other singer's, even other favorites, does.

Videos don't generally do Billie's voice justice. When we first got videos of the RevRad Tour, everyone was complaining about his voice and before I went to any shows, I did wonder if he was going off a bit. As soon as I heard them soundchecking outside the venue, I knew I was wrong. He sounded so much better in person. I know even people who did go to shows said his heart wasn't in it when he was singing Still Breathing, but I never got that impression. Very occasionally I felt the band (not just Billie) were going through the motions in general but that's because they're human and long tours are hard going. I also only noticed because I went to a lot of shows. It wasn't at all obvious to people who hadn't. As for Father of All, this performance was so good in person (and the soundcheck was even better) that I went from hating the song to really quite liking it. It was one of the highlights of the show for sure. In this case I think he sounds pretty good on the video too. That could be bias because I was there (and I'm in the video so of course I enjoy it ) but it definitely wasn't at the time, since I thought the song was one of the worst things they'd ever done and expected to stand there cringing. Green Day proved me wrong as usual!

That would be hilarious. 3/4 of the attendance wouldn't have a clue what the hell is happening

🥰🥰🥰 god I love that song. Especially live. 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Wasn’t thinking “why”? 😉😉

Drunk bunny just had to open that suit up a bit and the smell will floor poor Horny 😂😂

I do too but it falls on the cute side while his voice is undoubtedly sexy and it's confusing me

That's one beautiful muppet 😍 It's part of his appeal, you get cute and sexy in one tiny package

I only have eyes for billie

Ngl, the way he sounds on this new album... it’s hot.

Not forgetting the hottest of all time

I was in Arizona for a family wedding years ago. Obviously, everyone thinks of the Grand Canyon for AZ. Me? I wanted to go to the mall where Bill (I started typing Billie there ) and Ted's Excellent Adventure was shot. To my family out there, it was just a mall whereas I was all excited.

I don't know if these were posted already, but I found these HQ FOAM press photos on an official Warner Records website: https://press.warnerrecords.com/greenday/

This would be so funny if on the Hella Mega tour Green Day finish their set and The Network come out to do two or three songs as encores. The whole acoustic Good Riddance encore is getting stale anyway. They just have to do a quick costume change in the wings and then give some story of how Green Day left and they’re taking over. It would be a funny way to end the shows (and would totally beat Weezer’s barbershop quartet encore) And now we know why

There's NOTHING I want to see more

Seriously, picture Billie singing JFPP looking like this. I still think his shirt was open that much because he was trying to figure out where he had room for the tattoo.

I for one stan the muppet hair

I was just going to say, if these lyrics were recorded with his quarantine hair, I'd be laughing watching him do them. But if some of them came from the FOAM sessions, he might have had the beard for them (unless they were rerecorded).

I love that photo, he looks so relaxed and peaceful and just gorgeous ❤️❤️❤️ sad person that I am, I tried to find that cafe in Amsterdam but couldn’t, there are so many similar to it and I was trying to not let on I was looking for it 😁

I need some FOAM Billie rn.

I didn’t want the CD pre-order to delay my shirts but I also don’t want to pay shipping twice so I’m gonna wait and see if Amazon sells the CD and get it with prime. Edit: OOPS! Didn’t realize this was the NFM thread I was talking about The Network. What a good problem there are so many Green Day releases I’m mixing them up 🥰

Canadian Magazine "Exclaim" released their list of "The Worst Album Covers of 2020", and guess who's #1? https://exclaim.ca/music/article/here_are_the_33_worst_album_covers_of_2020/page/3 Here's what they had to say: "The roll out for Green Day's sassy, limply "proto-punk" 2020 album, Father of All Motherfuckers, was so gratingly corny that, despite some critics enjoying the music, many fans actually believed the whole thing was an elaborate troll for the band to fuck over Reprise Records. It takes a lot to make something so awful that fans invent an entire conspiracy theory in order to process the badness, and a lot of that can be attributed to the horrifying abomination that is this cover. This monstrosity — a mix of gel pen text and image placement befitting of one of those free online Photoshop clones — was designed by Billie Joe Armstrong himself. And despite its flaws, it still cements the band in the punk history books right alongside Black Flag."

OMG that would really make Green Day their bitches!

A part me feels like Tre never just sings, he’s always putting in some act. Sometimes, when speaking, his voice is really high and other times really low, I think he could have quite good range. Billie’s singing on this is so amazing, he’s got everything, sexy as hell at times. I don’t think his falsetto on FOAM is bad, just unexpected, but on Degenerate it’s fab, and the way he brings “don’t push me” from falsetto to that growl is brilliant. I also like when he’s singing falsetto, his backing is lower and they swap about. Sexy, sexy beast. I wonder if they got together to record this or if it was all done separately, if they had been together I would have loved to see behind the scenes.

The only thing left for The Network to do to complete their world domination is cancel the Hella Mega tour and replace it with a Money Money 2020 Pt2 tour

Oh not the grey! My therapist told me grey haired Billie doesn't exist!!

Me too, hadn’t seen it at all 😂

What a dork It’s beyond me how he manages both at the same time

I like that song a lot! But I don't think that's where his sexy vocals are. Hell, even Fentanyl is sexy as fuck with Fink singing. Even if I can't make out the lyrics he still sounds hot as hell.

FOAM isn't their best cover. It's pretty garish, but I still think that article was pretty harsh! Even though I was unsure about it at first I've grown to love Horny! I'm still waiting for an ultimate match between him and drunk bunny. My money's on drunk bunny.

So I'm not the only one who does this? Sneakily checking out something related to a niche interest while no one else notices

If this isn’t another weird photoshoot pic... I remember seeing Billie’s face cropped out of this in a magazine. Nightmare fuel.

Somebody make sure they see this idea! 👏👏👏👏👏👏

When my vinyl still hadn't showed up I ordered a CD from an online store and am pleased to report that arrived today

I couldn't agree more with what you say. Some songs I listen to so carefully and attentively because of the sound of his voice, the way he sings ❤ (Red Tide and Roshambo are even some of those!) Although with their last record I feel like his voice sounds too "thin," like weak And that wasn't the case in Love Is For Losers. I still like it, but I want him to sing SING

I have 3 special highlights this year and one is The Network's comeback 😍 Honestly I didn't know if they would, yet always had the "Money Money 2020" reminder in my mind. This band made its own room in my heart (not as big as GD lol) making me laugh always, whether it's with a song, an interview, their manifesto, and even the fights They kept their word, they're here, and I'm so happy!! ❤❤❤

Haha little do they know this was all part of an even more elaborate masterplan to be owned by The Network, the ultimate trolls

Agree on Tre, he sings in a whole selection of different funny voices lol I always love when Billie dabbles with falsetto, I think the first real time was a few notes on 21st CB and at the time it was striking. He's done it more since then but with Degenerate he's finally gone all in with it! The entire song (except the growl) . Back in the 90s he seemed to deliberately disguise the highness of his voice (both singing and speaking), nice to see him fully embracing that aspect of it.

Wait, are you serious you don’t like Billie’s vocals? It’s fine if you don’t, I’m just surprised because I think he’s great, very distinctive and a great part of GDs success. His FOAM falsettos may not be your thing but he really can scream and growl, and sing with a pure, clear voice, be warm etc. I get that real vocal people think he falls in a slightly unusual place, I think I’ve seen him called a low tenor, but I love his voice and I think he’s used it to great effect in Money Money 2020 part I I.

It would be great if they forced Green Day to open for them aha.

Just imagine if Rev Strychnine popped in during all of this ... "Which alter ego should I be today? 🤔"