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I’m a lyrics guy, and I hold Billie Joe to a higher standard than any other band I listen to. When people tell me they love the FOAMF record, it makes me think that they do not care about lyrics the way that I do. They are cringey throughout the whole thing!

I wanna be greedy. Like 21st C, 18 tracks 1 hour 18 minutes please. That will do nicely thank you. No pressure GD.

Not sure I completely agree with that. I had no issues with the lyrics for the title track, no issues with the verse lyrics from Oh Yeah, Junkies On A High, Take The Money and Crawl and Graffitia. I think the issue is around complete and whole songs. For example a song like Letterbomb is a complete piece of music. Lyrics are great, composition is great and the music is awesome. Even the production of the song is near perfect. With foam when there were good lyrics the composition or music itself were lacking. Or when the musical parts were better or promising the lyrics were more cringe. It just wasn’t a cohesive record but the lyrics are not any worse than trilogy era or even rev rad. Maybe not AI or 21cb standards but honestly, people underestimate how deep Billie went to write those. It took a piece of out him. This isn’t Blink with a reunion every 10 years, Social D who puts out a record every 10 years with 13 songs on it. Green Day has been making records (along with consistent singles) every 4 years with massive world tours. Not to mention we also live in one of the most uninspiring times in human history. There was a song on tv in some awards show last year called wet ass pussy. Anything on Foam is a lyrical masterpiece compared to what’s out there today. Maybe not a finer moment but I did like the “kick the dog when the whistle blows” part. Considering it was used as a hockey song but the saying also has multiple meanings relevant to events of that time.

I do have to say it is super cool of them to reach out to fans for this when it’s the easiest thing to hire extras in LA. They clearly wanted fans as extras

Personally I'd prefer to hear the real Billie rather than an AI

Green Day will be featured in the TV Series Power Hour on AXS. It's starting October 5th. Power Hour breaks down the biggest news and latest videos in rock. They're not gonna be in the first episode this Thursday I guess but maybe after the Music Video. So maybe the episode on October 26th.

My needs are minimal. Just gimme lyrics on a level above "stick a hammer in your mouth"

Gimme another RevRad level album and I'm gonna be so happy. Still Breathing, Forever Now, Bang Bang, Revolution Radio. Just wow!

He’s the fifth Beatle for sure

If the new stuff is like 21CB I’ll be pretty happy. Since the teaser dropped I’ve gone back and listened to that album (I didn’t realize how long it’s been since I had and it was so worth the relisten). The dream would be for another bit of Mike singing on the new album but that’s some hardcore wishful thinking.

Hot take: RevRad was mid. These guys can do so much better.

Lots of love at work for my Trump nimrod shirt today. Feels good. Anyhoo, Album 14 should have 14 songs. You know, for consistency.

Where they play DOS in full

In American Idiot Billie and Mike both did the harmonies together. Would be cool if they did that again. Gives the harmonies a more gang-like sound I think.

That’s why they needed Cavallo back! Glad that it happened.

What if American Dream is just a 30 sec song with the lyrics "The American dream is killing me" on repeat till the end with intense handclapping in the background ??

Definitely! I would like the opposite of foam, 50 minutes of pure green day rockers, ballads, acoustic songs, nimrod meets 21st century breakdown would be my ideal gd album.

Crazy how it is all or nothing with them. My Nimrod anniversary came 2 weeks late and my Dookie anniversary arrived 2 days before the official release.

Yeah ik what he meant. Was a joke

Hope its about 45-60 minutes with 14-15 songs 🙏

Just because they film for a music video on Wednesday doesn't mean that they shoot the whole video on this day. Maybe they already shot large parts of the video and now they film some scenes with an audience. Remember the Bang Bang video. They don't need to film the whole video on one day.

I love how much of a production a music video is for them. 5 PM to 3 AM!? When I saw Gaslight Anthem a few weeks they just told us during the show they'd be filming a music video and they played a song twice and filmed it on a handheld camera. It took all of 15 minutes, haha.

This is the band we love. They still want to connect with their fans. Theyve never done these weird stages like U2, they dont let ticketmaster call the shots and they dont use privacy as a reason to cut our experiences short. If you run into the band they will take time to chat with you and take a picture and possibly sign something. They have to move fast of course but theres a difference between fast paced environment and hiding from fans.

I can just picture how the new song is going to sound First, the intro that we heard in the teaser Then the heavy guitars kick in, like we heard at the end, Da-na-na-nananana-naaaaa Da-na-nana-nana Then the drums kick in, pa-pa-pa-papapapa-tsssss pa-pa-papa-papa-tsssss Then the HEY!'s kick in, Da-na-na-nananana-naaaa Da-na-nana-nana pa-pa-pa-papapapa-tsssss pa-pa-papa-papa-tsssss ------------------------HEY!----------------------HEY!

Really? That's awesome. I'm actually in the market for one last tat. Do you think she'd sing Nightlife on repeat the whole time she's inking me? I'd tip for it. Who knows, maybe she did a verse on American Dream. Here's to hoping.

Oh how I wish to see Nightlife performed live.

I have multiple friends who submitted to be in the music video, but nobody has heard back yet.

He definitely was NOT in London with the band, he’s not been involved in this record.

Hope we get some AI Billie vocals and not too heavy of vocal filters.

If the song is great and I actually enjoy it I will donate to the charity of @GDFan2019s choice. If it isn’t good, I’m using that money on Pokémon cards.

I wonder about the song lengths. Father of All is amazing, but it just zips by so fast. We'd definitely all be bummed if this album was that short. FOAM too short, Trilogy too long.

For sure. Especially at the Longshot shows. That's how I met Billie in San Francisco. They just pulled up in the van and parked right next to the line lol. Barely anyone noticed Billie walking around. But he was also on his way to soundcheck so I didn't wanna bother him too much. So I didn't ask him for a picture or anything. But another guy next to me did and it sort of cringe because he had the pen and everything ready. Almost like he wasn't a legit fan just an autograph hound. Billie was like "One autograph? Okay. Just one cause I gotta run". And he shook the guy's hand. And he shook my hand too! lol. I was like please don't lump me in with this guy haha.

I want Kevin to do the rap.

100 percent. FOAM is unfairly maligned, I think the lyrics are better overall than on RevRad tbh.

Respect your view fully. If I may I would like to share my intimate feelings of how FOAM has affected me. Sorry it's a bit long. On the surface GD wanted to dance. Just listening to the music it comes across as a party let's have fun album. But once you concentrate on the lyrics imho the message was there. As Billie Joe told Playboy, 'The political content is still there, but it's more subtle. He told Spin in 2020 'I think this whole record, the point was to make GD more danceable..... and just sort of that common natural instinct with beats that make people want to move'. Then in NME that year 'You can't help but think about Trump a little bit, but that wasn't really in the front of my mind. FOAM is just a badass title. It was just too obvious. We live in really dangerous times right now. Everything feels sort of unpredictable. America is really fucked up, and it's hard to draw any inspiration from it, because it depresses me ' For the FOAM song itself, Billie Joe told Rolling Stone, 'I was getting into Motown & soul music, and trying to channel that. I'd been listening to the first couple of Prince records, and everything is in falsetto. At that time, I was in this weird kind of depression, and that's what the song is about. With Trump, it's this toxicity that's in our culture, and we're deeply, deeply divided to a point of paranoia that we've never felt before. There's a line: "We are rivals in the riot that's inside of us," I feel like that's what's happening in our culture.' If I may I would like to further put forward 2 examples that the lyrics in FOAM songs are not meaninglessness but are in fact profound imho, and as always Billie Joe expresses it so amazingly in his lyrics that life is shit, but it's not our fault. W.E. Spevack, in his book Green Day on Track, gave an amazing description of the story told in these two songs. This is a summary using my words Thank you. Sugar Youth and which had to follow Junkies on a High, is a happy danceable track but tells a story. It starts with the narrator wanting to get wasted on 'yayo' to escape the world issues. Then in JOAH, it's the comedown. He is tired, his happy mood is gone, the song is calmed. Using the SY narrator, Billie Joe sings about watching the world burn while living it up. He identifies as 'Nobody'. ( Holy shit, for me personally I've felt that in the past). In the chorus, Billie Joe mentions being "another rock 'n' roll tragedy" again he told Spin, 'I think that line kind of scares me. Sometimes it feels like hell hounds on your trail a little bit'. In 30+ years absorbing Billie Joe's lyrics, they have always affected me deeply, whilst helping me so much. And FOAM has been no different. (Sorry for the long message, just wanted to set an alternative view of FOAM and what I think Billie Joe was trying to convey. It's just how it affected me. Thanks for listening)

For @jengd

Because XX = 20 you mean?

I agree with @Sheenius that the problem with the songs were that he gave up on good ideas halfway through. Half the songs feel like they’re missing something, a bridge, another verse, a change up in the chorus whatever. The album just leaves me feeling unsatisfied in both the songs and the overall short runtime. It’s like an elevator pitch of a great album.

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Omg my fury was so bad you remembered lol. But 100% agree. I do what I can to avoid their offical store and sadly it seems most band official stores are shitty. The Cure's store is facing mad delays for example. But Green Day's site is horrible. High shipping prices, bad and slow customer service, and huge delays that they don't really communicate. Even though I want to support the band I stay away from their store if I can help it and just do Amazon even though they suck. But with Amazon I can pre order without them charging my card right away meaning it's easy to change or cancel and usually the price drops by the time of release. Plus, I usually get my stuff release day. It's a no brainer to me. Okay rant over 😂

The Broken World riff in the teaser sound like something that could be used for opening the album. Like Song of the century but heavier.

Everything they said was still just rumours we'd already heard here

Had completely forgotten about Billie Posting the picture last 1 October of him on the giant duck with a caption about being awake. 😂 Anyone else?

Unboxing:

Some posts from May 9th. How the turntable have turned on turning the turn! @phildunphy wasn't a fraud after all

I can't believe I've yet to have any run-ins with them outside of Tre riding his bike around Pittsburgh and me saying hi to him as he rode by. Billie didn't hang around in Philly for The Longshot show I went to which was a bummer. Felt like that was my best chance to meet him.

Not around AI, 21CB and the Trilogy (in my opinion at least). By the time RevRad came out it became much, much easier to run into them and all the small Longshot and Cover Ups shows have made it even more easy.

I hope one of the first questions they get is, “You started teasing a project called 1972 back in 2021. So, what happened?”

Green Day on Hot Ones is my American Dream 🥰

Honestly, if it means they'll finally bring back 21CB songs to their live setlists, then I'm all for it...