"Pollyanna" - NEW SONG

[Flashback]

I like the song (but I also liked HCTS 😅). But I think there could be more contrast between the verse guitars and the chorus guitars. To me, the song could be much more powerful with a different mixing.

[Yosuke Hanamura]

7 minutes ago, GDFan2019 said:

I wonder where the name “Pollyanna” came from, because it’s not mentioned anywhere in the song

The word comes from a book of the same name, about a young orphan girl with a positive attitude even in difficult times. Because of this, the name came to mean a person who’s very optimistic.

[CannibalRat]

5 minutes ago, GDFan2019 said:

I wonder where the name “Pollyanna” came from, because it’s not mentioned anywhere in the song

It derives from an old novel which title character, Polyanna had a optimistic outlook on life. The song's theme is pretty much that, optimism and positivity about the future.

[Cali89]

Love it! So much better than HCTS. No sound effects of snorting coke  

[Flashback]

Looks like the resonance of the listeners on Instagram and Youtube is pretty good as well  

[PluckyJokerhead]

1 minute ago, Flashback said:

Looks like the resonance of the listeners on Instagram and Youtube is pretty good as well  

Yep. Not surprised, it's hard not to have a smile on your face after listening to this

[Montclare]

38 minutes ago, BillieMyLove said:

Maybe that's the point? That there is hope but also a lot of bad stuff out there still and a lot of work that needs to be done? I think there may be a few meanings here buried under the literal stuff.

I thought something similar with the frowny faces in the videos.  You have the upbeat, forward looking lyrics, but still some apprehension beneath that as well.

[That Dude]

I hope we get a music video for this one.   

And a good one.   Green Day can do no wrong musically, but they sure can screw up a music video.   

Let me direct, I wanna screw it up FOR them! 

 

Okay, I've been playing it for almost 2 hours straight.   I can't stop until I'm sick of it, but who knows how long that will take.   

I NEED MORE GREEN DAY MUSIC.  

4 minutes ago, Cali_gd89 said:

Love it! I'm glad there are no sound effects of snorting coke like in HCTS   

I am glad there are no police sirens.   

Any song that avoids sirens is okay in my book.   

[Marie_GD]

If you had told me this was another cover for No Fun Mondays I would have 100% believed  you. 

[Macys]

Its alright. Since when Billie started writing about being positive and cheerful? its an okay song with happy vibes but the lyrics sounded kinda cheesy, Has Billie really lost it? Can someone confirm or explain what the fuck1 is up with him?

[PluckyJokerhead]

Another nice thing about this one is that they're not promoting it with any mention of friends and fuckers or hot dog videos. Well aside from the hot dog artwork. Are the band trying to tell us something about hot dogs that we're just not seeing?

[GDFan2019]

1 minute ago, PluckyJokerhead said:

Another nice thing about this one is that they're not promoting it with any mention of friends and fuckers or hot dog videos. Well aside from the hot dog artwork. Are the band trying to tell us something about hot dogs that we're just not seeing?

Probably because of the Hella Mega Tour at MLB stadiums

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, Beerjeezus said:

If that’s what he meant, which I’m not sure about, because it could be just a generic catchphrase, so I’m saying IF that’s he meant, it would be such hypocrisy that he could win a medal if hypocrisy was an Olympic sport.

I am not going through this again. You believe whatever makes you feel good. All I know is I am still disgusted with a lot here and it is why I have been quiet here in recent weeks. However, I will just say I would not continue to support someone I honestly felt that way about, so I am wondering who the real hypocrite is.

[Flashback]

Anyway, I still hope for a full album this year and the new font which was used for Pollyanna and HCTS gives me a tiny bit of hope 😄

[GDFan2019]

1 minute ago, Flashback said:

Anyway, I still hope for a full album this year and the new font which was used for Pollyanna and HCTS gives me a tiny bit of hope 😄

I wonder how long before they update the website with that font. Because as of now, it still has the FOAM ketchup font

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, Montclare said:

I thought something similar with the frowny faces in the videos.  You have the upbeat, forward looking lyrics, but still some apprehension beneath that as well.

Totally agreed. Like everyone is so excited about good things that have happened--Trump is gone, pandemic is ending, the mofo who murdered George Floyd is going to prison where he belongs, etc--but there is still a hell of a lot wrong in this world that needs to be addressed.  I think this song is playing with the contradiction in those two things.

[Beerjeezus]

2 minutes ago, Macys said:

Its alright. Since when Billie started writing about being positive and cheerful? its an okay song with happy vibes but the lyrics sounded kinda cheesy, Has Billie really lost it? Can someone confirm or explain what the fuck1 is up with him?

Someone who is a Polyanna is somewhat too optimistic, while the song is merely about not giving up (and sounds sort of melancholic imo), so I would say it’s not unlike Billie to write a song like this. It’s more subtle than Happiness, but I’d say it’s in a similar vein.

However, I have no idea what the fuck is up with him. Who knows really

[GuitarPunk94]

bratwurst hot dog as song cover art?! wow, they must have read our discussions about bratwurst in here, if bratwurst can get real, songsforassholes and mootik can get real too *believe* haha

do you guys think a new LP could be on the way?
because i think this is just one standalone song to boost (US) hellamega, maybe they will record a new album in winter, after the US shows and before europe 2022, or maybe we wont get a new album until hellamega is over in 2022

 

Pollyanna is a very solid song, not as "punchy" as i hoped for, but its a nice one (and 10 times better than HCTS)

for me the song sounds like sth from 21cb/trilogy/revrad, and NOT foam, this is a good direction, keep it goin boys

its also very radio friendly imo, but i doubt that the media in germany will be aware of a new GD standalone song

[PluckyJokerhead]

4 minutes ago, Flashback said:

Anyway, I still hope for a full album this year and the new font which was used for Pollyanna and HCTS gives me a tiny bit of hope 😄

Even if there's a new album this year I don't think these two would be on it -- HCTS and Polyanna are sonically too different to be from the same record, so either only one of them is from an album or more likely there's no album at all and these are just individual singles because the band has the freedom to do that now.

[Charby]

13 minutes ago, Macys said:

Its alright. Since when Billie started writing about being positive and cheerful? its an okay song with happy vibes but the lyrics sounded kinda cheesy, Has Billie really lost it? Can someone confirm or explain what the fuck1 is up with him?

Poprocks & Coke exists 

[grinsoniko]

I was trying to remember what Weezer song this reminded me of, it’s Don’t Let Go off the green album, especially the chorus.

[GDFan2019]

9 minutes ago, PluckyJokerhead said:

Even if there's a new album this year I don't think these two would be on it -- HCTS and Polyanna are sonically too different to be from the same record, so either only one of them is from an album or more likely there's no album at all and these are just individual singles because the band has the freedom to do that now.

But again they have the same GREEN DAY font.

[KGLWW]

If it's the same font maybe it's like another shenanigans

[PluckyJokerhead]

1 minute ago, GDFan2019 said:

But again they have the same GREEN DAY font.

All that means is they were too lazy to make any new artwork so they grabbed the logo from HCTS and slapped a hot dog on it

[Clockwise]

The artist that did the cover for these two last singles is very talented and just followed the direction the band gave them. I like them.