Song of the Week She

[Tiffx]

Love it!

Amazing song, great lyrics and I'm sure a lot of people can relate to it.

'are you locked up in a world thats been planed out for you'? One of my favourite GD lines ever.

[Mari91]

This is definitely one of my favorite Green Day songs.

It has a different feel from the rest of the Dookie album

"Are you locked up in a world that's been planned out for you?

Are you feeling like a social tool without a use?"

i really like chorus of this song, because i feel people are afraid to do something for themselves

and its absolutely amazing live

[justcause]

'She' is what I regard as one of Green Day's important songs - one with the urgent feel that a truth has been uncovered, and here it is, blasted out with the power and intensity of breaking news exploding into consciousness. It's like Billie Joe has just gotten this vision that blew him away, and he's gotta communicate it, loud and clear. The title is simple and epic - 'She' is primal force, it touches a deep chord, bigger than all of the holy names, because this is a sense of identity beyond a name. Yet 'She' is just as lost as Jesus of Suburbia - 'caught up' in the same kind of mesmeric crap, unsure, undefined, too big for her little world.

'Scream at me till my ears bleed' - it's, 'I fucking hear you, even when your screaming is silent'. When I first heard it, I had such a feeling of astonishment - along with the furniture in my head being moved around - that this kind of clear-sighted, unentailed empathy would come from a guy.

And I should say that it fucking rocks - when the guitars build the energy to the chorus and you just have to sing it out, it's irresistible, and even though the words are about being locked up, the song is freeing you, it's just joyous and liberating. When it came at The Bowery, for me, it wasn't even about the band - I was just with the song.

[Michael128]

I'm just starting to get into this song now. And where do we vote for SOTW?

[Sarahnade.]

I'm just starting to get into this song now. And where do we vote for SOTW?

Here.

[J'net]

I'm just starting to get into this song now. And where do we vote for SOTW?

At the bottom of the original post for this thread, is a link to the Song of the Week suggestions thread. If you have any trouble finding it, let me know.

'She' is what I regard as one of Green Day's important songs - one with the urgent feel that a truth has been uncovered, and here it is, blasted out with the power and intensity of breaking news exploding into consciousness. It's like Billie Joe has just gotten this vision that blew him away, and he's gotta communicate it, loud and clear. The title is simple and epic - 'She' is primal force, it touches a deep chord, bigger than all of the holy names, because this is a sense of identity beyond a name. Yet 'She' is just as lost as Jesus of Suburbia - 'caught up' in the same kind of mesmeric crap, unsure, undefined, too big for her little world.

'Scream at me till my ears bleed' - it's, 'I fucking hear you, even when your screaming is silent'. When I first heard it, I had such a feeling of astonishment - along with the furniture in my head being moved around - that this kind of clear-sighted, unentailed empathy would come from a guy.

And I should say that it fucking rocks - when the guitars build the energy to the chorus and you just have to sing it out, it's irresistible, and even though the words are about being locked up, the song is freeing you, it's just joyous and liberating. When it came at The Bowery, for me, it wasn't even about the band - I was just with the song.

Sublimely expressed, as always, Angeline. The only difference for me is that I can't imagine this song without it being partly about the band. I guess it's because, as you said, it's hard to imagine that a male of the species had this revelation and wrote this perfect song about it (and Billie Joe has written so many songs that I find hard to believe in that way). So for me a large part of the song and what I feel about it is the fact of where it came from. Seeing it live was one of those life experiences that will be with me when I'm boring all the nurses in the old folks' home with my stories .

[ScreamsInSilence815]

One of my favorite GD songs EVER.

[Michael128]

At the bottom of the original post for this thread, is a link to the Song of the Week suggestions thread. If you have any trouble finding it, let me know

Am I stupid? I swear I looked there like 5 times.

[Supermodel*Robot]

Oh boy. Where to begin? You'd think after my relentless begging for this song, I'd have my thoughts sorted out.

This song means the world to me. It's the knife that cut open my guts for them to spill out in front of me in order to be examined, felt with shaking hands, respected, and then stuffed back into my ribcage with a slightly stronger sense of order. I'll first slip out a few random tidbits that show my daily appreciations for this song, before going into my explanation of my love. Okay. In grade 10 guitar class, I analyzed this song & did a project on what the lyrics meant to me. I have the lyric page bookmarked on my firefox, not like in the bookmark tab, but one of those buttons up top that you accidentally click every other day. I'm planning on getting an anklet tattoo with "She screams in silence." I watch the live performance video at least once a week before going to sleep.

Okay. Everything about this song is just incredible. The lyrics are an obvious connection - I've never felt so understood. I've always been that awkward kid that had a group but never really related to anyone in the group all that well. I don't have this crazy social life, but I don't have those deep understanding friendships either (well now I'm starting to have the latter, but back when I discovered this song.) I always felt like I had no fit into the whole social scheme, I was - to be crude - "A social tool without a use." I felt scared and confused & had no one to talk to about it. I felt like I was the only person in the world feeling this way & that no once could ever understand the mess going on in my mind & my life. Insert this song. I don't know how he did it, and it still blows my fucking mind to bits, but Billie sang every emotion I hadn't been able to define and even offered up some comfort (Scream at me until my ears bleed.) I couldn't believe someone else actually got it. Plus this was written when I was only two! There were others before me?! My thirteen year-old mind reeled.

Musically, it's the perfect composite for the lyrics. The rhythms are tight & the melody is uplifting as hell. I love how it crescendos into the chorus & explodes into this powerful beast. And the bass, it's just so intense. I'll attach my favourite video of this song. Watch Mike. He's insane. He's just attacking his bass like it's this animal that needs to be thrashed. And Tre is just wailing away on the drums, rolling the drumsticks & thrashing with pure energy & motivation. And Billie: he looks as if he's in pain in the final chorus, as if he's physically absorbing all the hurt that he's explaining. Plus he's high & chanting this silly rant about Tonka Trucks at the beginning that's adorable.

She Video

If I had to wear a badge for the rest of my life that defined which song is me, it's be SHE.

[*withoutadoubt*]

'She' is what I regard as one of Green Day's important songs - one with the urgent feel that a truth has been uncovered, and here it is, blasted out with the power and intensity of breaking news exploding into consciousness. It's like Billie Joe has just gotten this vision that blew him away, and he's gotta communicate it, loud and clear. The title is simple and epic - 'She' is primal force, it touches a deep chord, bigger than all of the holy names, because this is a sense of identity beyond a name. Yet 'She' is just as lost as Jesus of Suburbia - 'caught up' in the same kind of mesmeric crap, unsure, undefined, too big for her little world.

'Scream at me till my ears bleed' - it's, 'I fucking hear you, even when your screaming is silent'. When I first heard it, I had such a feeling of astonishment - along with the furniture in my head being moved around - that this kind of clear-sighted, unentailed empathy would come from a guy.

And I should say that it fucking rocks - when the guitars build the energy to the chorus and you just have to sing it out, it's irresistible, and even though the words are about being locked up, the song is freeing you, it's just joyous and liberating. When it came at The Bowery, for me, it wasn't even about the band - I was just with the song.

Beautifully expressed, as always. At the Bowery, I remember you looking back at me at some point, and I think it was during this song. (There were a couple times, lol.) I was just so happy to be hearing it live - a really, really great moment.

[J'net]

Am I stupid? I swear I looked there like 5 times.

Maybe you're just looking for a big obvious link. This is what's there:

If you’d like to nominate a Song of the Week, use this thread.

But now you can just use this one .

[AndrewW91]

What up, J'net???? The first youtube resullt for 'she' is this awesome one where Billie is high and starts talking about going on his scooter... no his big wheel... no his bicycle.

Thats my all time favorite Green Day concert moment(in which I wasn't present)!

I love She. It happens to be my favorite song off of Dookie besides Coming Clean, which is my all time favorite song.

[Inane Kiss]

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i got on stage during she

and i thought i couldn't love it more than i already did

[Supermodel*Robot]

Thats my all time favorite Green Day concert moment(in which I wasn't present)!

I love She. It happens to be my favorite song off of Dookie besides Coming Clean, which is my all time favorite song.

woo. I talked about/linked it in my response on the previous page.

[Abbey.]

I gotta say - everyone here is kicking the cr@p out of this discussion. simply awesome.

justcause - i love your thoughts on the title - and furniture being moved around in my brain - holy brilliant imagery!

supermodel robot - your honesty is beautiful.

i cant wait to see what everyone else has to say. im gonna give the song a week to rattle around in my brain and see what spits out.

[miss green day]

I always thought She would be a good music video.

But when I think about it, I'm kinda glad it doesn't have a music video, because that would take away the emotion.

If I'm making any sense.

Thats my all time favorite Green Day concert moment(in which I wasn't present)!

I love She. It happens to be my favorite song off of Dookie besides Coming Clean, which is my all time favorite song.

At the show I went to, the second to last song they played was Coming Clean. And it was just Billie, playing it acoustic and everyone sang along.

Honestly one of the most beautiful things I've ever been apart of.

[justcause]

Sublimely expressed, as always, Angeline. The only difference for me is that I can't imagine this song without it being partly about the band. I guess it's because, as you said, it's hard to imagine that a male of the species had this revelation and wrote this perfect song about it (and Billie Joe has written so many songs that I find hard to believe in that way). So for me a large part of the song and what I feel about it is the fact of where it came from. Seeing it live was one of those life experiences that will be with me when I'm boring all the nurses in the old folks' home with my stories .

Thanx. Where the song came from is an element that washes over me every time I hear it - but I realize that what the song is saying is what predominates for me, beyond personality, circumstance, whatever. I didn't anticipate 'She' that nite at The Bowery, I was all about the 21CB songs, churning around in me and painted stark in that skully backdrop that was the first thing I saw when I came in - oh fuck, that black, unadorned guitar carried onstage, everything so somber, and Billie Joe taking it up and singing 21 Guns, his face splotched with light from the cell-phones.

If I had been anticipating 'She', I'd probably been thinking fondly about a sturdy old chestnut from the back catalogue, something that wouldn't move me much because I'd heard it so often since the time it struck me like lightning. I took it onboard, it armed me, and I went forward. But it came that nite, and it took me right to that place where I saw the thought of that song like a comet, an arc that beckoned me to discovery and freedom. Green Day created something that has a life of its own, a place that stands eternal - I'd call it a landmark, but it's beyond that. It's somewhere in the sky.

[Mar]

I absolutely love She. Of all the songs on Dookie, I think She is the one I can most fully appreciate now that I'm older. When I was a kid I just thought it was a cool sounding song, I didn't really think too much about the lyrics. But now that I do think about the lyrics, I think it's brilliant. Easily one of my favorite Green Day songs.

I was the same way!

He really does understand the world and life from a woman's point of view.

I think that's one of my favorite things about Billie's songwriting, and I don't think I'm basing my opinion just on being a woman. I can easily establish the character in my head, and I feel like that character (male or female) is incredibly realistic, but especially with "She", I really feel like he captures the line of thinking many women have, and I love that.

What up, J'net???? The first youtube resullt for 'she' is this awesome one where Billie is high and starts talking about going on his scooter... no his big wheel... no his bicycle.

Thank you for reminding me of this gem.

'She' is what I regard as one of Green Day's important songs - one with the urgent feel that a truth has been uncovered, and here it is, blasted out with the power and intensity of breaking news exploding into consciousness. It's like Billie Joe has just gotten this vision that blew him away, and he's gotta communicate it, loud and clear. The title is simple and epic - 'She' is primal force, it touches a deep chord, bigger than all of the holy names, because this is a sense of identity beyond a name. Yet 'She' is just as lost as Jesus of Suburbia - 'caught up' in the same kind of mesmeric crap, unsure, undefined, too big for her little world.

'Scream at me till my ears bleed' - it's, 'I fucking hear you, even when your screaming is silent'. When I first heard it, I had such a feeling of astonishment - along with the furniture in my head being moved around - that this kind of clear-sighted, unentailed empathy would come from a guy.

And I should say that it fucking rocks - when the guitars build the energy to the chorus and you just have to sing it out, it's irresistible, and even though the words are about being locked up, the song is freeing you, it's just joyous and liberating. When it came at The Bowery, for me, it wasn't even about the band - I was just with the song.

Oh God, I completely agree with you. I could not have said it better myself.

I gotta say - everyone here is kicking the cr@p out of this discussion. simply awesome.

Isn't that the truth?

This is my second-favorite Green Day song ever. For me, it's so powerful on record and live. I don't normally jump around or sing/scream at concerts, but at their show, and most notably during "She", I was like a completely different person, it was like for 2 1/2 minutes, I came out of my shell. The amount of energy the guys put into performing this song is insane, and I'm glad to see it's still included in the shows, because not only is it one of my favorites, I think it's one of their best.

Lyrically, I think every person can relate to the sentiment. Whether we're screaming over the expectations of our parents, our jobs, our friends, the media, society, etc, we want to scream at someone until their ears bleed. And most importantly, we want to have someone to listen to us, and in this song, it's easy to feel like Billie's listening to us and relating to us. I think we all want to be the "she" to someone.

Oh God, I could ramble on and on. I adore this song.

[justcause]

Beautifully expressed, as always. At the Bowery, I remember you looking back at me at some point, and I think it was during this song. (There were a couple times, lol.) I was just so happy to be hearing it live - a really, really great moment.

Hey, sweetheart - there were moments when I'd just think, 'is Cheryl seeing this? Is she pushing herself forward, or just hanging back?'

justcause - i love your thoughts on the title - and furniture being moved around in my brain - holy brilliant imagery!

Thanx - and that's how it was, almost physical.

[AndrewW91]

At the show I went to, the second to last song they played was Coming Clean. And it was just Billie, playing it acoustic and everyone sang along.

Honestly one of the most beautiful things I've ever been apart of.

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[*withoutadoubt*]

Hey, sweetheart - there were moments when I'd just think, 'is Cheryl seeing this? Is she pushing herself forward, or just hanging back?'

Oh, believe me, I was seeing everything from where I was, taking every little bit of it all in - I prefer to hang back sometimes, and I was perfectly fine. One of these days, I guess I'll push forward and shock the shit out of a lot of people, lol.

[Prisca]

I couldn't agree more with what everyone's said! It was sooooo amazing hearing it live at the Forum! So much energy and BJ's scream was definitely interesting I simply adore this song, and it's one of my favorites.

[J'net]

Thanx. Where the song came from is an element that washes over me every time I hear it - but I realize that what the song is saying is what predominates for me, beyond personality, circumstance, whatever. I didn't anticipate 'She' that nite at The Bowery, I was all about the 21CB songs, churning around in me and painted stark in that skully backdrop that was the first thing I saw when I came in - oh fuck, that black, unadorned guitar carried onstage, everything so somber, and Billie Joe taking it up and singing 21 Guns, his face splotched with light from the cell-phones.

If I had been anticipating 'She', I'd probably been thinking fondly about a sturdy old chestnut from the back catalogue, something that wouldn't move me much because I'd heard it so often since the time it struck me like lightning. I took it onboard, it armed me, and I went forward. But it came that nite, and it took me right to that place where I saw the thought of that song like a comet, an arc that beckoned me to discovery and freedom. Green Day created something that has a life of its own, a place that stands eternal - I'd call it a landmark, but it's beyond that. It's somewhere in the sky.

This is so beautiful it makes my heart swell.

[amy_runs]

This song gives me chills every time I hear it. It could possibly be my favorite song, ever. Words cannot describe what it means to me.

[Heather!]

This songs reminds me of being 14. I haven't listened to it in awhile but it was my favorite for a long time