As Green Day's American Idiot – and its iconic title track – turns 20, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reflects on its legacy.
Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day performs during the band's"American Idiot" tour at Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on Nov. 24, 2004 in San Francisco. continues here as we hear from an artist behind arguably the year’s biggest rock album: Billie Joe Armstrong ofOne of music’s biggest stories in 2004 was Green Day’s resurrection.
It’s hard to imagine a single that’s more in your face than “American Idiot,” in both sound and subject matter. Was there any resistance from your team or your label about that being the lead single? I don’t really know what I thought, like what kind of legs that that song was gonna have. I remember when Trump got into office, that song was getting played a lot. The first trip that he took to England, trying to get “American Idiot” to go No. 1. I think it got to number two. When the song first came out, I think we were like, “This could blow up in our faces, but who cares? We’ve said something that we really felt strongly about.
9/11 defined a generation in the same way that the Vietnam War defined a generation. It was just that sort of era of fear that every generation has to endure. When the Twin Towers fell down, it created a generation of paranoia. Looking back, three years after 9/11, a lot of people when they heard the music , this push back and created like a soundtrack for that push back.spawned two even bigger, less politically oriented singles: “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.
More and more artists are doing tours where they play classic albums in full. Why is that an effective way to connect with fans?
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