Green Day

Green Day Introduction If anyone ever asked Billie Joe Armstrong if he would grow to be the lead singer of a wildly famous punk band and he replied with a yes, he sure hit the bullseye with that one. Green Day is a trio that fulfilled every kid’s dream of becoming a rock star. Green Day brought punk-rock to the mainstream, won 4 Grammys, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, making them one of the best punk-rock bands of the 20th century. How The Members Met Armstrong and Dirnt

Green Day and the American Idiot The relationship between music and society is an exceptionally powerful and crucial one. In some cases, this relationship is viewed as one that is harmonious and beneficial to large communities of people. However, that exact relationship could also be scrutinized as one that is extremely discordant to other communities. Green Day happens to fall precisely in the middle of that musical spectrum, depending on who is asked. Regardless of opinion, songs are much more

Billie is famous worldwide as the lead singer and guitarist of the very popular band Green Day. Green day is in the punk rock type of band. Electric guitar with speakers so loud the room shakes when he plays. He is a major inspiration to many people including me. Billie was born on Feb 17, 1972 in oakland CA. He has become very successful due to his passion and strength in his own beliefs. “School is practice for the future, and practice makes perfect. But nobody's perfect, so why practice?”(Billie

solutions. As any presidency goes, war came along and so did the criticism. Punk rock band, Green Day, was no different than many other outraged citizens; forming a group for stance in matters which they found could be solved in other ways. Billie Joe Armstrong, Tre Cool, and Mike Dirnt took to the microphone and recorded their number one hit album “American Idiot”. Thesis: Placed number two on the album, Green Days’ 2005 release of “Jesus of suburbia” strongly protests the presidency of George w Bush

Everyone has heard a Green Day song at some point in their life, from their hit “Holiday” to “American Idiot.” Green Day has been a popular band that started in the 1990’s. Being a punk band in the 90’s the artists quickly made an impact by being rebellious and speaking their true thoughts. They focus on the realities of life, rather than a fluffed-up version that may seem too good to be true. In some of their other hits they show how broken and defeated someone may be without ever noticing it. While

Within the following discussion and analysis, we will be looking at the punk rock group Green day song, American Idiot. This song is the title track of their seventh studio album of which shares the same name. Which was release as a single on August 31, 2004, just three weeks before the release of the full album on September 20, 2004. The central idea of the song focusses on the idea that people are being told how think or view certain things by an over bias media. It should also be noted that this

How American Idiot impacted our culture September 20, 2004 is when a song named, “American idiot” came out by a band named Green day, impacting our culture by explaining how the youth are being conformists, The song also talks about how the media owns the people, how people are idiots for listening to what is being fed to them, and finally the division of the united states of America over political issues. This song was made to point out how America is with the technology that is connected with the

extremely discordant to other communities. Green Day happens to fall precisely in the middle of that musical spectrum, depending on who is asked. Regardless of opinion, songs are much more than just music and are essentially retained as pieces of history. These songs help showcase the trends, behaviors, and even struggles of different time periods. With that being said, one may ask “What all did the musical group Green Day contribute to society?”. Green Day is a pop punk/alternative rock band formed

that time the song’s legend and popularity have grown to unprecedented heights. Many artists have redone the song, some with a similar music style to Morrison (like Jimmy Buffet), and others of a completely different genre like the punk rock band Green Day. In my essay I will argue that the stylistic differences between the two songs are not a barrier. Rather, in combination with the similarities associating with cover songs, they form a bridge between two genres. In this case, it is achieved by

Wind back to 1994, the band Green Day were topping the charts with their catchy punk rock tunes. Leading the way for Punk Rock culture, they were youths and 20 somethings’ outlet for expressing their frustration and angst with puberty, adolescence and the beginning of adulthood. Each day society would see another kid ending up as a victim of a broken or abusive home, leaving the number of youths raising themselves, ever on the rise. At the time of Green Day’s rise to fame the generation of youth