““Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” billionaire Elon Musk recently pouted when the pop-punk icons altered ‘American Idiot”s lyrics to attack the MAGA brigade. Goes to show you can’t buy common sense, eh? Whether rolling around the East Bay in the early ‘90s with anthems for the jilted generation, or explicitly wearing their politics on their sleeve fo”
“Green Day return with a triumphant outing in Saviors”
“After 2020’s Father of All Motherfuckers bucked expectations to impressive effect by ditching the politics and most of their punk trappings for more of a garage-rock style, Green Day’s 14th album finds them reverting to type. From the opening The American Dream Is Killing Me in, there’s a sense of weary resignation, the lyrics frequently painting a bleak portrait of contemporary US life, from “Peo”
“Attempting to cement their title as a legacy rock act, Green Day absorb the kind of lazy regression they once rallied against.”
