The Green Day Fangirls' Confessions Thread

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

There were other posts about it at the time and someone had a setlist covered in it! 

Can't honestly say I'd want wine spat at me. Maybe it's because I've been sober a long time? 

It's on pages 3 and 4 of the thread for the show

 

Thanks for this. 

I have been sober my whole life and I am still OK with Billie spitting alcohol on me. Hell, he can spit it in my mouth if he wants.

[Squashie]

@Rumpelstiltskin2000 I still love that Colbert bonus special! 

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

12 hours ago, Slave To The Network said:

I still remember at the Longshot show I went to, Billie downed like half a bottle of water and then passed the rest out to the crowd (yes, I drank from it - this was pre COVID and it was very hot in that club). He didn't spit any out, but he did put his whole mouth around the water bottle opening so his spit was definitely in there.

I was in front of Billie at that show and was absolutely covered in sweat and spit (he was literally raining sweat as I'm sure we all were) and had to fly back to the UK early the next morning so I reckon it was a few days until I was able to shower

[jengd]

17 minutes ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

I was in front of Billie at that show and was absolutely covered in sweat and spit (he was literally raining sweat as I'm sure we all were) and had to fly back to the UK early the next morning so I reckon it was a few days until I was able to shower

Lovely! 😂😂

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

3 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

I was in front of Billie at that show and was absolutely covered in sweat and spit (he was literally raining sweat as I'm sure we all were) and had to fly back to the UK early the next morning so I reckon it was a few days until I was able to shower

Sound fun! Once in a lifetime ❤️ so happy you were able to attend the show…

Showers can wait sometimes.

[Slave To The Network]

9 hours ago, Rumpelstiltskin2000 said:

I was in front of Billie at that show and was absolutely covered in sweat and spit (he was literally raining sweat as I'm sure we all were) and had to fly back to the UK early the next morning so I reckon it was a few days until I was able to shower

I really hope The Longshot tours again! 😭  I want an opportunity to experience that. Hell, I'd even take The Coverups as long as I get to see Billie in a small club setting again.

[Rumpelstiltskin2000]

Here's another cool gif

 

[Slave To The Network]

The only good thing to come out of the Oh Love music video.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, Slave To The Network said:

The only good thing to come out of the Oh Love music video.

I actually really like that video. Billie looks like dessert and so does Tre. They went with something bold and I think it worked.

Also just found this. ❤️

 

[Guest]

Hey everybody, I found another pee video (plus a bunch of other cool stuff). 🤣

 

[Slave To The Network]

19 hours ago, Lady Mix-A-Lot said:

I actually really like that video. Billie looks like dessert and so does Tre. They went with something bold and I think it worked.

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:

[Squashie]

unpopular opinion:

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

[Beerjeezus]

4 hours ago, Squashie said:

unpopular opinion:

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

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

[Guest]

6 hours ago, Slave To The Network said:

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:

OK, it's my turn to talk about things that matter to me again LOL. First, let me be clear that this is not a personal disagreement; I just want to talk about my take on the video and the issues underlying it. This why I think the video is bold: when we see scantily class women in entertainment, they are almost always portrayed entertaining men. This video flips the script and the women become the audience, watching men for their own enjoyment. The interaction between the women and the men feels secondary, and when it does happen, it feels more reciprocal than typical portrayals, and the women seem to actually be in the power position (Tre seems the most interactive here, and he gets a pass because he was not married when this video was made LOL). I view it as a pretty subversive piece. I think it says something about all of our cultural conditioning that, when we see women being sexual on their own rather than sexualized solely by men, our reaction is "Ew, trashy/gross/etc." We usually don't say the same thing about men being sexual or consuming sexual content. My only real criticism of the video is that it does not seem to match the song: the video is kinda party-esque whereas the song is about loneliness. Maybe they were trying to be ironic? Not sure, but on the whole I do think it is a positive piece.

[Little Boy Named Booze]

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

[pacejunkie punk]

Which video  wins the award for their worst — Oh Love or Here Comes the Shock?

[Little Boy Named Booze]

37 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Which video  wins the award for their worst — Oh Love or Here Comes the Shock?

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.

[Guest]

34 minutes ago, Little Boy Named Booze said:

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.

What if they made a video to promote a relatively unknown Only Fans porn actress? 🤣

[Hermione]

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.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, Hermione said:

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 would argue those are two of their best videos; both tell very compelling stories that match the social commentary of the songs.

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

9 minutes ago, Hermione said:

Their worst video is Jesus of Suburbia. The cringe!!! WMUWSE a close second.

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.

[Hermione]

12 minutes ago, Lady Mix-A-Lot said:

I would argue those are two of their best videos; both tell very compelling stories that match the social commentary of the songs.

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.

12 minutes ago, Virginia Lot Lizard said:

This! 

Oh Love is not the worst at all. And the turning on its head of the artist entertain the scantily clad women. I wish it was executed better but it is far from the worst. 

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.

[Virginia Lot Lizard]

12 minutes ago, Hermione said:

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 didn't look like they were having that much fun . 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.

Thanks for the reminder  I am going to go watch the uncensored version right now. Definitely worth checking out. Oh Love is a good looking video and different than any other GD video. I like to revisit it now and again.

The dorky awkwardness cannot be washed out of this rock star band even with a video like this but I still like this video. Maybe that’s why I especially like this video ❤️ 

[Little Boy Named Booze]

14 minutes ago, Virginia Lot Lizard said:

some guy and bad acting

yeah Lou Taylor Pucci is a bad actor. Only 47 credits on IMDB. And known for his role in Evil Dead and You (series TV)
What a shame.
 

[Hermione]

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.