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I'll go with Oh Love. At least with HCTS they helped a small streamer to have some visibility and build her community even bigger. I don't think Playboy girls need that.

Oh Love Official Video is 100% nudity 100% drugs 100% cringe 100% unnecessary and stupid

I guess we agree to disagree, then. I don't think it was bold. I think it was a huge mistake to take it in that direction and the result was a trashy, out of place mess that felt like it was trying way too hard. I think the only silver linings are that the band members looked fantastic and, after such a colossal flop, Sam Bayer may have taken some time to reconsider his vision as a director (hopefully). So at least we got this:

What saved WMUWSE from being the worst are those awesome performance shots though. I wish they’d release a cut of just that studio part where they perform because damn they all look good and I love that Jason’s in it. That shot of Billie looking up is just 👀 🔥

To me JOS is just cringe edgy emo teens acting like posers and spoiled brats. With bonus "self harm is so cool!!!11". I was a teenager myself when it came out and cringed then as well. The message of the WMUWSE one is good but again with the cringe emo melodrama at the beginning . Not my cup of tea. Yeah I remember the way they described the concept of it (them playing rockstar characters doing the "sex drugs and rock n roll" thing) was better than the finished result. I think the main problem was the band members were awkward , and the director just didn't really manage to make it look like they and the models were having a fun time. The uncensored Playboy version (which isn't just uncensored but an entirely differently cut video with different footage from the shoot) was a bit better because they looked like they were enjoying themselves a bit more.

Their worst video is Jesus of Suburbia. The cringe!!! WMUWSE a close second. Oh Love and HCTS are both fun, and HCTS is totally wholesome and fits the positive message of the song well.

I just hate it because I don't see how emos posing around, being abusive to their parents for no reason, vandalising stores and cutting their wrists to be cool reflects anything about Billie's youth/the Bay Area punk scene that seemed to actually have worthwhile values which the song refers to. Like, youth rebellion can be shown without being super cringe. I think it was the first Green Day video I waited for and I was very disappointed by it lol. Director's fault though not the actors.

If they set the video in 1920s he’d pull it off as an artist dying of consumption really well.

Nimrod will be 24 today - 14 October 1997 Here's Kerrang's inside story of Nimrod for anyone who hasn't seen it before https://www.kerrang.com/features/green-day-the-inside-story-of-nimrod/

American Idiot era RevRad club tour Trilogy era - Montreux Jazz Festival

I really want to read and understand this debate. Me when I start reading a post with 500+ words:

They fucked it up right at the start by making Oh Love the lead single

It's cliche "sex, drugs & rock 'n roll". There is nothing progressive about the video. And of course the girls are "consenting." It's the role they are being paid to play. I invite you to watch the bts of the video:

Hmm, that's too bad. Nevertheless, there are tarantulas that come out during early fall for mating season in the Bay Area. In the original story, he was talking to it and said "Someone should write a song about you" and then encouraged it to go into the neighbor's yard.

Please, arachnophobia here…😱😱😱😱

Can you not make a thread every time you have a minor question that doesn’t invite discussion? Someone already directed you to the Q&A thread for these kinds of things where someone literally asked this same question already

unpopular opinion: billie looks/Ed horrible & spaced out in the “oh love” video. I find nothing attractive about him in it.

Who’s Green Day? I heard that Oakland Coffee sometimes uses some band in their advertising.

I know what you mean, I’ve always felt they got us and understood but this recent period has felt a little disconnected. 😟

I honestly thought the crazy Green Day fans were more important than that I miss the teasing and the fun projects etc so much. It was very special being a Green Day fan. Now… I don’t know how I feel about the past year or so… Hella Mega was… I don’t know how to feel about that either. I wasn’t able to go. No interviews, no behind the scenes, nothing to connect anything unless you were able to buy a ticket and attend the show. A lot of us are not able to do that.

He’s posted again with Tarantula playing over it, saying “somebody should come out of retirement and write a song about it” but I can’t share it.

The website is currently out of action as, I believe, is the Instagram account. Not sure how long it will be down

Maybe yeah it could be argued and sometimes I think so too but generally per consensus vote it comes out as least favorite. It’s not even interesting enough to be actually bad I think that’s part of it. I like your top song selections so happy you’re getting into the Trilogy! It’s amazing! Enjoy

Only got into the trilogy recently (very late I know) but 99 revolutions, x-kid, make out party (love bj’s snarl in this) and let yourself go are my favourites! I would say there’s worst songs on the trilogy tho tbh

Sorry, didn’t make myself clear, I meant some other, older videos like WMUWSE hasn’t aged well because it was made at a time when that style of video was very popular, you don’t see that anymore.

never mind, I found it THANKS PROSTHETIC HEAD I THINK

We kind of knew they fucked it up right at the start of the trilogy with the old school 3D glasses for the lyrics video

As much as I really don’t mind the video for Oh Love, I do wish it was for a different song or didn’t exist at all if it wasn’t going to be executed properly. Oh Love is one of those pulling at heart strings songs and fortunately this video for this song misses the mark entirely. One good thing is we’re still talking about the Trilogy all these years later even though the band band won’t play these songs. A lot of great songs on the Trilogy. Oh Love (the song) got muddled up in some backlash it didn’t deserve. The whole Trilogy did. It’s really unfair. Those songs meant a lot to a of people.

I largely agree with you and find non GD fans just think it’s a fun Rick video with girls in but I think for those of us who are deeper into the band, it just doesn’t feel like a good fit, particularly for Billie as such a family man. I think some of others talked about here have just aged badly which is very common for music videos. The long version of WMUWSE was just too awful but that was totally a thing at the time. I think @pacejunkie punk said part and I totally agree, whole video like that please instead of cringed melodrama! HCTS was a great warm up video during lockdown 😂😂

Not sure why it would have been a problem when they did it for all those Network videos

Maybe kinda hard to get the band and then crew etc together at that time to make a video at the time HCTS was released. Here Comes the Shock is promoting Punk Rock Aerobics you can do at home during the pandemic if you can’t get out much. That’s not bad at all. It could be kind of helpful to some people to check out Hilken Mancini and other Punk Rock Aerobics videos. The past couple of years have been a time for a different approach to the everyday.

I also hate WMUWSE video. I have never liked it. Sure, the story is important but it's just boring. And I hate the acting at the beginning. I have no qualms about JOS. Then again I had a huge crush on the guy playing St Jimmy so.... I'd much rather this JOS than WMUWSE or HCTS and especially Oh love. As for which is worse, Oh Love or HCTS...that's sooo hard. Oh Love actually has Green Day but makes me cringe. HCTS is just boring. Honestly I think I could tolerate HCTS more. Oh Love is way too cringe and just weird. HCTS is at least more within their wheelhouse.

Overacted story line. Over 10 minutes of a Green Day video of no Green Day. It could have been so much more.

This! Oh Love is not the worst at all. And the turning on its head the idea of the artists entertaining the scantily clad women in a music video. That seems like a new (badly executed) powerful idea. I wish it was executed better but it is far from the worst. Jesus of Suburbia is ok but why the hell is it not over ten minutes of GREEN DAY and their excellent acting instead of what it was just some guy and bad acting (not good bad acting like GD who are the best) and forget about the WMUWSE video. I don’t watch that one. I watched it once or twice just to make sure I didn’t want to watch it again. Oh Love is way better and heavy with the band footage and totally does not even need to go near an award for worst Green Day video.

If this is just a letdown tease before a tour movie drop, I'll allow it. Other than that it feels like a breakup.

Now listen here Green Day, you got to start making Jen happy again. I’m serious this is some bullshit 😠 (and the rest of us too while you’re at it thnx)

Mike just straight up had a tarantula wander through his yard today! Jealous. I'd love to have a tarantula just cruise by like that. So cool! I didn't know they were found so far north, but I just looked it up and apparently there are a few species around the Bay Area and it's the perfect time of year to see the males out wandering long distances to find females. This little man was probably out on a mission to hunt down a lady friend. Looks like it is probably Aphonopelma iodius.

As a collective fandom it feels like Green Day are breaking up with us 🥺

More Billie photos

Episode 5 is out. Look like it's the Finale. Maybe we'll get more of those in 2022. Still hoping for a live CD/DVD soon.

Still waiting for Taxes Is the Reason.

I hadn't realised at first there were more photos attached to Tre's post so here you go Kevin posted these to his Instagram story

From Tre

Love Kevin's black cat 😻

I have uploaded the performance on YouTube. Not the biggest quality, but hey.

😔 Sorry but asking for money each month doesn't make me want to give it.

From David Field - The BJ and Dave Puppet Show (just a tease) https://www.instagram.com/p/CUNxGoRjxgD/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

I’m not too big on the songs from the trilogy? but I do think brutal love sounds amazing live ESPECIALLY here