New single - The American Dream Is Killing Me - Out Now!

[pacejunkie punk]

1 hour ago, Clockwise said:

My friend and I just launched our podcast, Green Dudes. We're going through Green Day's discography song-by-song. For everyone here who wants to hear even more of my opinions. 100 percent uncut podcasting. No Swedish producers or whatever. Should be on most major podcast platforms.

We talk about TADIKM in the introduction episode, and then jump right into At The Library after. Hoping we get some hate-listeners lol.

https://redcircle.com/shows/837a696b-9c63-4c80-a051-8efa31bda841

Cool! I love Green Day podcasts. Can’t wait to listen

[dirnt286]

3 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

That was a special circumstance.  The first video they filmed was scrapped and they had to start over.  For whatever reason they didn’t like it. So the video they slapped together in a hurry with stock footage was late.

Really? I didn’t remember hearing about that for some reason. Any indications of what the orig might have been like?

[pacejunkie punk]

Just now, dirnt286 said:

Really? I didn’t remember hearing about that for some reason. Any indications of what the orig might have been like?

I spoke with someone in the industry who saw the cut of the original video. It was filmed at the Madonna Inn by Sam Bayer. At the time we saw posts by extras and a makeup artist who worked on it that were later deleted.  A lot of punked up actors in it.  I don’t know the details but I get the sense it was pretty wild and depraved, which actually matched the vibe of the album and he told me he thought it was a great video and didn’t know why they didn’t use it. Maybe when they saw the final cut someone panicked and killed it. Then they made a safe performance video and rushed it out.

[GDFan2019]

38 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I spoke with someone in the industry who saw the cut of the original video. It was filmed at the Madonna Inn by Sam Bayer. At the time we saw posts by extras and a makeup artist who worked on it that were later deleted.  A lot of punked up actors in it.  I don’t know the details but I get the sense it was pretty wild and depraved, which actually matched the vibe of the album and he told me he thought it was a great video and didn’t know why they didn’t use it. Maybe when they saw the final cut someone panicked and killed it. Then they made a safe performance video and rushed it out.

And I think the back cover of the album was taken at the Madonna, right?

[pacejunkie punk]

10 minutes ago, GDFan2019 said:

And I think the back cover of the album was taken at the Madonna, right?

Yes they also did a photoshoot 

[Clockwise]

1 hour ago, pacejunkie punk said:

Cool! I love Green Day podcasts. Can’t wait to listen

Hell yeah!

 

59 minutes ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I spoke with someone in the industry who saw the cut of the original video. It was filmed at the Madonna Inn by Sam Bayer. At the time we saw posts by extras and a makeup artist who worked on it that were later deleted.  A lot of punked up actors in it.  I don’t know the details but I get the sense it was pretty wild and depraved, which actually matched the vibe of the album and he told me he thought it was a great video and didn’t know why they didn’t use it. Maybe when they saw the final cut someone panicked and killed it. Then they made a safe performance video and rushed it out.

Sounds like they didn't want a repeat of the Oh Love video? 

[pacejunkie punk]

2 minutes ago, Clockwise said:

 

Sounds like they didn't want a repeat of the Oh Love video? 

Then you wonder why they hired Sam Bayer

[dudley dawson]

11 hours ago, BrendanL said:

Did the band play live at any point, or were they just miming along to the song for each take?

They played live to the track.

[Cali89]

Love the song and music video! It's been in my head all day. I'm so happy they are back to themselves and everyone is loving the beginning of this new era. Such an exciting time to be a green day fan   

[pacejunkie punk]

I wish the video was getting more views. What confuses me is they have nearly 6.5 million subscribers to their YT channel. That many people like the band enough to follow them on YT, and yet you can’t even get 600,000 streams in the first couple of days?  And that’s with a lot of fans watching the video multiple times I’m sure. Where are all these subscribers? It’s already dropped from trending from 8 to like 29.

[JardyOfSuburbia]

I think one of the best parts of this song is that Billie does that "chaaaaa" sound right before the solo. You know what sound I'm talking about. It's all over Shoplifter and most of the songs on American Idiot.

[Slave To The Network]

5 hours ago, GDFan2019 said:

Billie posted a video on Instagram getting the makeup applied

I saw that literally just a few minutes after posting. Haha!  I think he was getting the makeup off after the shoot. I'd like to see the whole behind the scenes of them getting it on, the shooting of the video, etc. That's always so fascinating to me!

[GDFan2019]

2 hours ago, dudley dawson said:

They played live to the track.

At any point of the night, did you get to have any casual conversations with them in between takes?

[billy1986]

We got help make this video viral the numbers should be higher hopefully since Halloween is around it will pick up it’s too good to not get as many views as Blinks new stuff come on now we gotta post the video and request the song on radio…also love the “coincidence” of Blink adding 2 “new songs” to by after GD drops this masterpiece 

[blackplanet]

27 minutes ago, billy1986 said:

We got help make this video viral the numbers should be higher hopefully since Halloween is around it will pick up it’s too good to not get as many views as Blinks new stuff come on now we gotta post the video and request the song on radio…also love the “coincidence” of Blink adding 2 “new songs” to by after GD drops this masterpiece 

To be entirely fair to blink, I think that was just their last ditch attempt at trying to snatch the number one spot on the album chart from Drake on Friday.

That being said, I like "The American Dream is Killing Me" quite a bit and I definitely want it to pick up in views too.

[þjáningu]

I think the number of views is ok since we are close to 600k since the single released on Tuesday ... that's pretty good 👍 

Might be a slow burner but once they do interviews and late night TV show performances (fallon, Kimmel etc) then it will pick up 

[jengd]

4 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I spoke with someone in the industry who saw the cut of the original video. It was filmed at the Madonna Inn by Sam Bayer. At the time we saw posts by extras and a makeup artist who worked on it that were later deleted.  A lot of punked up actors in it.  I don’t know the details but I get the sense it was pretty wild and depraved, which actually matched the vibe of the album and he told me he thought it was a great video and didn’t know why they didn’t use it. Maybe when they saw the final cut someone panicked and killed it. Then they made a safe performance video and rushed it out.

And there was an interview (which I saw quite recently on Yourube but typically can’t find right now) where Billie said the video had been a huge disaster.  I seem to remember too, someone involved in it, having a go at them about junking it as they thought it had been brilliant but dangerous, or words along those lines.

2 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I wish the video was getting more views. What confuses me is they have nearly 6.5 million subscribers to their YT channel. That many people like the band enough to follow them on YT, and yet you can’t even get 600,000 streams in the first couple of days?  And that’s with a lot of fans watching the video multiple times I’m sure. Where are all these subscribers? It’s already dropped from trending from 8 to like 29.

I thought that too, where are the subscribers?!

[dudley dawson]

1 hour ago, GDFan2019 said:

At any point of the night, did you get to have any casual conversations with them in between takes?

Nah, they were usually chatting with the director and other production folks. I thought about saying something, but I think it would have been awkward and that’s the last thing I wanted 😆.

3 hours ago, pacejunkie punk said:

I wish the video was getting more views. What confuses me is they have nearly 6.5 million subscribers to their YT channel. That many people like the band enough to follow them on YT, and yet you can’t even get 600,000 streams in the first couple of days?  And that’s with a lot of fans watching the video multiple times I’m sure. Where are all these subscribers? It’s already dropped from trending from 8 to like 29.

I don’t know the correlation, but from various comments I’ve seen around the interwebs from non fans, the reception for the song appears lukewarm at best (not that I care, this band has always had an absurd number of haters who will never come around). So while us here are quite happy, I think we need to accept that the masses really don’t care about it (oh well, their loss).

[billy1986]

Even non- die hard fans need to wake up to good tunes 

[CherryBombs&Gasoline]

1 hour ago, dudley dawson said:

Nah, they were usually chatting with the director and other production folks. I thought about saying something, but I think it would have been awkward and that’s the last thing I wanted 😆.

I don’t know the correlation, but from various comments I’ve seen around the interwebs from non fans, the reception for the song appears lukewarm at best (not that I care, this band has always had an absurd number of haters who will never come around). So while us here are quite happy, I think we need to accept that the masses really don’t care about it (oh well, their loss).

I don’t know, I’ve only heard positive comments so far, apart from people criticizing the TikTok line (which is kind of silly, that doesn’t make the song itself bad). It’s definitely getting a better reception than anything from FOAM. I also don’t think that the numbers are bad. It’s successful for a rock song, but it’s never going to be as popular as a pop or rap song. That’s just the way it is. Green Day has more monthly listeners on Spotify than almost any other rock band. I think they’re doing fine.

[þjáningu]

Look Ma, No brains will do better than TADIKM when it comes out because it's more old school Green Day and people will respond (hopefully) positively to it 

[Christian's Inferno!]

1 hour ago, þjáningu said:

Look Ma, No brains will do better than TADIKM when it comes out because it's more old school Green Day and people will respond (hopefully) positively to it 

I really doubt it tbh. Unless it's Dookie kind of old school (which it's not), then I don't see people flocking to that song. If anything, it's more Shenanigans / Nimrod deep cuts kind of old school which isn't really the kind of sound that everyone's been waiting for GD to return to. And tbh it's really not even that similar to that sound. It still sounds like modern Green Day in some ways. Really I don't see them releasing a single that performs any better than TADIKM which should be appealing people who wanted a return to the AI/21CB type of sound

I think in recent times, people just have much higher standards for Green Day than for any other rock band or pop punk band that was more popular in the 90's and/or 00's. Like, Sum 41 released a song called Landmines and it's the most basic pop punk shit that you can imagine. It would've been generic pop punk back in the 00's. But nobody seems to care that it's mediocre as hell. GD release a genuinely good song and still there's a lot of people who aren't happy with it. FOAMF was a pretty shit album tbf but I feel like the reception it got would've been much kinder if almost any other band had released it. Modern GD has kind of become a punching bag. So much so that everything since AI kind of gets painted with the same brush even though they've released genuinely great songs and albums since then. 21CB is my favourite album and I hate how it gets lumped in with the trilogy and FOAMF. Even I think some people who actually like TADIKM just kind of dismiss modern Green Day by saying "This is the best GD song since American Idiot" which I mean, sure if that's your opinion that's fine but I honestly think there are many songs from 2008 onwards that I'd put over TADIKM even if I still like TADIKM. What I can say about TADIKM is it's better than anything on FOAMF and better than most of RevRad imo

[jengd]

I agree with you the Green Day seem to have more to live up to than many bands, I think it’s that so much of their music is so high quality (describe that if you can) that if people feel it dips a little or doesn’t appeal to them (possibly the same thing?) they get slammed.  It’s like when you read articles saying how badly they were failing between Dookie and AI and I think really, how many bands would give their right arm for those sales!  

[Flashback]

So are there already any reviews for the new song? Does the song get airplay on mainstream radio?

[That Dude]

Fin likes it.