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Green Day Draws Conservative Rage for Anti-'MAGA Agenda' Lyric (www.ticketnews.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago

Same kind of people who post this kind of shit

[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

In a way, this makes Dixie's Chicks' stance even braver

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

It was. But I also don’t think they (she, originally) expected a comment in London to go viral.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I had a Christian once tell me that Green Days songs were about God.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And how you gotta stand up to Him? What the fuck does that even mean? All their songs are about how "hey, you can't just be telling people how to live like that. People are individuals with thoughts and ideas AND ALSO YES FARTS ARE FUNNY AND I'M TIRED OF PRETENDING LIKE THEY AREN'T"

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I was bewildered lol. Same guy thought Sweet Children was Billie Joe's choir endeavors.

Like, just cause BJA was in choir at age 10 doesn't mean he's making religious music lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Certain crowds can't fathom being any different from how you were raised up because They're too scared of being their authentic selves