• The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    So they changed it from redneck to MAGA, and you felt fucking called out? They wrote a fucking ALBUM about how subsets of america are dooming everyone else during the Bush administration and you didn’t fucking realize Green Day doesn’t like conservativism and you went to their concerts and bought their music? Man WHAT THE FUCK ARE YALL OFFENDED BY!? THIS IS WHO GREEN DAY IS. THIS IS WHO THEY’VE ALWAYS BEEN. THIS IS WHAT they’ve ALWAYS STOOD FOR.

    • P03 Locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      Lindsay Ellis did a really good video about how Green Day were the first ones to break America out of the jingoistic fever and into Bush-era protest music without the backlash that many others in the past felt (including Dixie Chicks).

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        I think it helped that unlike the Dixie Chicks, conservatives didn’t make up a large portion of the Green Day fanbase. Conservatives were still very offended by American Idiot.

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    As the article points out, the original lyric from American Idiot is, “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.” They changed it to, “I’m not a part of a MAGA agenda.”

    …Can this even be considered a significant change? It’s more like a modernization of the original language. Whose agenda did they think Green Day was previously referring-- oh, right. They probably didn’t do any research, did they? It’s just manufactured outrage, so they can pretend that the left is just as vile as they are.

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      If anything they’ve gotten more specific with their language. They’ve made an adjustment in language to reflect there’s rednecks out there who aren’t on board for fascism. They’re speaking about EXACTLY who they mean now

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    Fake outrage. Of course they know Green Day’s punk rock and anti right-wing. They are just pretending to be outraged and playing the victim.

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    Since when did punk rock talk about politics 🤣

    Since the dawn of punk rock? Read a poorly photocopied zine fer cryin’ out loud. Half of the Dead Kennedys first album was about Dianne Feinstein or Jerry Brown and the political landscape of San Francisco. Literally every Bad Religion song is political. Let’s not even get started on all the Brit punk that Thatcher inspired.

    Relevant youtube link

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    Lol. Have conservatives ever listened to Green Day? 😆

    Like, who did they think American Idiot was about until that moment?

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      Conservatives seem to interpret all musicians as conservatives until explicitly told otherwise.

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    If I could make a living writing and performing songs that outraged conservatives, I would do it too.

  • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    damn i can’t believe the band that wrote a song called american idiot for the anti bush album rock against bush wouldn’t like conservative politics.

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    Again? This was a headline in January as well. I guess people are gonna get mad every time they perform it now, and we’ll get news stories every time people get mad.