Corporatization of Green Day!

[devilskind92]

5 hours ago, Slave To The Network said:

What?? This just feels wrong to me. I don't know... 

It's just promotion. Don't overthink it.

[ekim]

Maybe this is green day's way of paying taco bell back for for being the inspiration for dookie

[farley drexel hatcher]

they had time of your life in a commercial for (i think) centreparcs here in the uk in like 1998 so it’s nothing new 

[jengd]

Wow, I don’t remember that at all but was abroad most of 1989 so maybe missed it.

[That Dude]

If so, they need to do more of it.  I didn't get a Thanksgiving song or Black Friday song or a Taco Bell penned Theme Song.  

[Lenny]

On 11/22/2023 at 12:20 AM, Tre's Busted Drumkit said:

Now I want a crunchwrap supreme and a Doritos locos cheesy gordita crunch. Thanks, asshole.

Corporate death burger 

[HoneyEmerald]

On 11/24/2023 at 11:42 AM, That Dude said:

If so, they need to do more of it.  I didn't get a Thanksgiving song or Black Friday song or a Taco Bell penned Theme Song.  

The GDC Thanksgiving/Black Friday/Taco Bell song:

 

Black Friday, It's my day

The day after Thanksgiving

A Theme song that doesn't belong

in society

This one is short

hmm well of course

Since they both only last for one day

Come out and play!

Come out and play!

let's rhyme for a while

and be in denial

a few days after Thanksgiving and Black Friday

mmmm..... Tacos. 

(bell chimes)

( There I incorporated all three themes in it... LOL)

[That Dude]

If you wrote a song and Taco Bell came to you and offered $20,000, what would you do?   Personally, I'd be so happy my creation was good enough for something like that I'd probably write more songs similar to it in hopes that McDonald's or Chic Fila or whoever would offer a million!   And no, not a difference between Green Day and I.  You've got to consider their lifestyle.  Billie said they live frugally, but let's be real.  Frugal for him could be spending 1 million on a car instead of 8 million.  Whereas I had to take a covid relief check, my tax refund and a large portion of savings to be able to afford a 10,000 car and get the payment low.   I got sidetracked.   Billie might have bills that despite him being worth 75 million, take a toll on his bank account.  And if he isn't raking in Dookie money like he used too, there has to be new income streams.  We shouldn't want them to have to decline their lifestyle just because it offends us they are "selling out".     Making money from art is the opposite of selling out, even if it's Taco Bell....which is really good. 

#7 with a soft Taco, a quasarito and Baja blast. 

[jengd]

When did Billie say they lived frugally? 

[Thatsername]

On 11/21/2023 at 3:57 PM, stories and songs said:

I’m happy when rock music gets mainstream exposure in any way these days, because it’s woefully missing from pop culture right now.

I thought the exact same thing. I'm so sick of all the commercials with hip hop music (I just don't like this kind of music and I never will). Gen Z kids enjoying rock music isn't something you see every day🥲

[jengd]

I noticed in the comments on YouTube for ADIKM there are a couple of youngsters saying they just discovered GD and rock music and they were loving it.  Hope there are many more.

[STAKED]

Bear in mind too that 99% of this stuff, whether commercials, the Funko pops, etc, isn't the band but the record company itself anyway. They likely have no actual awareness or personal involvement anyway.

Hey, Billie didn't even know a certain single was already out once over.

[Yosuke Hanamura]

On 11/27/2023 at 4:41 AM, Thatsername said:

Gen Z kids enjoying rock music isn't something you see every day🥲

Early in the generation, but I am one as well. 

I am not a major listener of hip-hop, but I've come to appreciate the legacy and how It continues to give Black people a voice in mainstream discourse in a society that's designed to oppress them.

Part of the reason my generation loves it is because Gen Z has a very strong sense of justice, and wants to see proper anti-colonialist change. (Which is especially evident now that govts. across the West are actively silencing Pro-Palestinian voices.)

Also, despite popular belief, Gen Z jams to rock music. It's just not at the forefront.

[aahhhh]

people really think the band has no say in their songs being used in commercials 

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Speaking of which: If you’ve seen the Taco Bell commercial soundtracked by the new album’s blistering “Look Ma, No Brains!,” you should know that the fast-food chain originally wanted to use “The American Dream Is Killing Me.”

“I was like, Hmm, I don’t really think that’s the appropriate song for a seven-layer burrito,” Armstrong says. Was licensing “Look Ma, No Brains!” a tough call?

Cool laughs. “We made a bet amongst ourselves that we could get Taco Bell to show the person eating a taco while Billie sings, ‘Sick boy, and I s— the bed,’” he says — which indeed the spot does (albeit in censored form).

 

via LA Times