• The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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    4 months ago

    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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      4 months ago

      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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        4 months ago

        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.