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American Idiot (Music)
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American Idiot is the seventh studio album by Green Day, released in 2004. The album was responsible for their commercial and critical comeback after the huge expectations created by their breakout album Dookie (1994) remained unmatched by their next three albums, with their most recent release (Warning:) reaching all-time lows in commercial sales.A Rock Opera Concept Album, American Idiot follows the Coming of Age Story of Jesus of Suburbia (or JOS for short), a lower-middle-class American adolescent Anti-Hero who spends the album maturing from a rebellious youth to a jaded adult through his experiences leaving his broken home for a new life in the city. With the journey of JOS, the album taps into the disillusionment of a generation of Americans that came of age in a time shaped by events such as 9/11 and the Iraq War.The album was born from the ashes of the band's previously planned next release, Cigarettes and Valentines, which was shelved after its master tapes were stolen. The band then opted to start over from scratch and create a biting, politically charged record that would throw back to their trademark punk sound while also exploring new ambitions and influences.One of the most anticipated album releases of 2004, American Idiot won several awards, including two Grammy Awards for Best Rock Album and Record of the Year ("Boulevard of Broken Dreams"). It also received five more Grammy nominations, including Album of the Year.Starting in 2009, Idiot received its own Broadway musical that won two Tony Awards for Best Scenic Design and Best Lighting Design, and was even nominated for Best Musical. The album version of it also won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Musical Show Album. In turn, a documentary depicting the album's journey to Broadway was released in 2013 under the name Broadway Idiot.A movie was once planned; however, by 2020, the film was scrapped for unknown reasons.The album also provided the basis for the mashup album American Edit by "Dean Gray", which remixes tracks from the album with an extremely diverse range of other songs, ranging from Bryan Adams and The Offspring to The Beatles, The Bangles, Queen and the Doctor Who theme. The band's label objected to it, but Billie Joe Armstrong supposedly heard it and approved. | |
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Creator Cameo: Billie Joe occasionally played St. Jimmy in the musical during its original run. In the "Jesus of Suburbia" video, JOS watches Green Day on TV. | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing | |
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"It" Is Dehumanizing: A California Congressman who rants towards the end of "Holiday" makes a point of mocking President Bush's hawkish stance on Iraq by sarcastically insulting the masculinity of anyone who's a dove and using "that" instead of "who" when referring to them. | |
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Protest Song | |
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Protest Song: "American Idiot" and "Holiday" both heavily criticize the state of America under the Bush administration. Shortly after Donald Trump was elected president, "American Idiot" made it back into the charts. | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | |
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Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: A running theme of the album. "Jesus of Suburbia", "Give Me Novocaine" and "Homecoming" all feature heavy themes of drug use and, to a lesser extent, sex, and how abuse of these things ultimately fail to fill Jesus' life with meaning. | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: A special hardcover-book edition of American Idiot contains journal entries not featured as lyrics; these served as the dialogue for the musical. | |
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Villain Song | |
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Villain Song: "St. Jimmy" serves as the introduction to... well, St. Jimmy, who serves as the antagonist of the story, tempting JOS to engage in destructive behavior. "Know Your Enemy" from the stage version as well, which culminates in St. Jimmy encouraging Johnny to kill Whatsername when she tries to stop him from doing drugs. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: "Homecoming" is about JOS coming home, not a school homecoming. | |
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New Sound Album | |
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New Sound Album: Not only does it have the grandest sound of any of their albums up to that time, but it differed greatly from the Lighter and Softer near-pop rock of their previous album Warning:. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The musical adds onto the JOS plot with stories of his two best friends. There's Will, who wants to leave but has to stay home with his pregnant girlfriend, and Tunny, who initially goes to the city with JOS but then ends up joining the army. The musical also has many songs from the successor 21st Century Breakdown. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: Of the Punk movement as a whole. JOS becomes a self-absorbed, self-destructive rebel without a cause who ultimately accomplishes nothing and according to "Letterbomb" is the real American Idiot. This creates the interesting social commentary in that rather than (just) turning people into mindless drones, the alienation and paranoia of modern American society creates self-destructive rebellion. | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting | |
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My Country Tis of Thee That I Sting: "American Idiot" and "Holiday" are critical of the United States' politics, especially referring to the 2003 war in Iraq. | |
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Miniscule Rocking | |
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"Homecoming" actually started as the opposite: a few Miniscule Rocking tracks which were then stitched together. | |
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Flipping the Bird | |
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Flipping the Bird: All over the place in the musical. | |
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Looped Lyrics | |
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Looped Lyrics: The chorus of "Are We the Waiting", as well as the "Nobody Likes You" section of "Homecoming". | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Both the album itself, and the musical. The album: JOS eventually overcomes Jimmy's destructive influences and ultimately moves on with his life. However, Whatsername leaves him and disappears without a trace, which still haunts him long after the events of the album, and everything JOS tried to accomplish during his time in the city ultimately ended in failure, leaving him more or less where he started. The musical: Tunny loses his leg in the war but falls in love with the Extraordinary Girl. Johnny and Will have lost the women they love but are finally getting their acts together, have their friends back, and Heather is letting Will see his baby again. | |
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Small Town Boredom | |
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Small Town Boredom: The plot of "Jesus of Suburbia", where JOS gets bored of his suburban lifestyle and runs to the city. | |
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority | |
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Cool People Rebel Against Authority: Deconstructed, as Jimmy is just nothing more than a slacker who accomplishes nothing who decides to rebel against society and still accomplishes nothing. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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Downer Ending: The video for "Wake Me Up When September Ends". The boyfriend enlists in the army, going against his vow of never leaving his girlfriend, and is ambushed by insurgents as he sees his comrades getting wounded, as their fate, as well as his, is unknown (it's implied that it may not end well for the boyfriend). | |
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Wham Line | |
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Wham Line: One of the final verses in "Letterbomb": This verse from "Homecoming": | |
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Rebellious Spirit | |
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Rebellious Spirit: The protagonist is a rebel without a cause. | |
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Step Up to the Microphone | |
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Step Up to the Microphone: Tré Cool and Mike Dirnt sing the parts of "Homecoming" they wrote ("Rock 'n Roll Girlfriend" and "Nobody Likes You", respectively). | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: The riff used in "St. Jimmy" makes a return in "The Death of St. Jimmy". The drums in the intro to "Rock 'n Roll Girlfriend" from Homecoming are the same ones as in American Idiot. Whatsername's little song from the intro to "Letterbomb" is extended in "Nobody Likes You" from Homecoming. In the musical, Whatsername's last appearance, after she has left Johnny's life, happens in front of the same wall in which she first appeared and kissed him. Even the lighting is the same. | |
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Shameless Self-Promoter | |
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In the "Jesus of Suburbia" video, JOS watches Green Day on TV. | |
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Growing Up Sucks | |
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Growing Up Sucks: JOS' life is not easy. | |
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Going Home Again | |
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Going Home Again: This is how the Myth Arc plot ends. JOS, after being stuck in a dead-end job and becoming a rebel without a cause, ends up going home and forgetting about his old girlfriend, Whatsername. | |
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Three Chords and the Truth | |
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Three Chords and the Truth: "American Idiot", "St. Jimmy," "She's A Rebel," and are on par with previous Green Day songs. | |
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One Drink Will Kill the Baby | |
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One Drink Will Kill the Baby: Played for Laughs in the musical when the visibly pregnant Heather drinks Will's beer during "Give Me Novacaine". | |
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Former Teen Rebel | |
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Former Teen Rebel: JOS in "Homecoming" | |
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Dream Sequence | |
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Dream Sequence: "Extraordinary Girl" in the musical. | |
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Jukebox Musical | |
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Jukebox Musical: The musical is an odd variant, given that it was based on a Rock Opera to begin with. | |
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"Leaving the Nest" Song: "Jesus of Suburbia Pt. IV: Tales of Another Broken Home" is about running away from the "hurricane of...lies" that the protagonist finds at home, but he also acknowledges that "there ain't nowhere you can go, running away from pain when you've been victimized." Two tracks later, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" follows up with a sobering portriat of the result of Jo S's exodus from home... | |
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"Bang!" Flag Gun: Used in the musical version during St. Jimmy's suicide. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: St. Jimmy in "Homecoming". | |
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Named by the Adaptation | |
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Named by the Adaptation: JOS is given the name "Johnny" in the musical. | |
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Epic Rocking | |
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Epic Rocking: The two multipart tracks, "Homecoming" and "Jesus of Suburbia", are over 9 minutes long containing several movements. "Homecoming" actually started as the opposite: a few Miniscule Rocking tracks which were then stitched together. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: Inevitable, given the storytelling aspect of the album, but a few stand out, especially in "Homecoming". Part 2 bears resemblance to the 'I Don't Care' part of "Jesus of Suburbia", acting a bit like Book Ends as JOS returns home. Also, Whatsername's 'Nobody likes you' taunt shows up quite a bit, possibly to imply thoughts going around JOS/ Jimmy's head during the song. 'Rage and Love'. Originally used by JOS himself (referring to his upbringing) while introducing himself to the audience in "Jesus of Suburbia", he also mentions that it's the 'story of my life' in "Are We the Waiting", and he has the words (rephrased as 'your father's rage and your mother's love') spat back in his face as part of Whatsername's "The Reason You Suck" Speech during "Letterbomb". | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot | |
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Real Life Writes the Plot: Certain songs and themes were inspired by the band's growing dissatisfaction with the George W. Bush administration and their politics regarding the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. | |
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"I Am" Song | |
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"I Am" Song: This album has several tracks devoted to Establishing Character Moments. JOS has "Jesus of Suburbia" (doubles as an "I Want" Song), St. Jimmy has "St. Jimmy", and Whatsername has "She's a Rebel", which has her being described from JOS's perspective. | |
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Why Can't I Hate You? | |
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Why Can't I Hate You?: Hinted at in "Nobody Likes You". | |
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Sore Loser | |
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Sore Loser: In the different booklet to the limited edition vinyl re-release of the album, the lyrics to "Letterbomb" were followed by typical St. Jimmy style all capital letters: | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: "Letterbomb" as a whole, which is directed by Whatsername towards St. Jimmy. The intro (later quoted in "Homecoming") is set to a cheery, nursery rhyme-like tune. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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Establishing Character Moment: Each "I Am" Song (see below) on the album is dedicated to this. The music video features a scene of Jimmy and his mom sitting in their living room. | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni | |
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Red Oni, Blue Oni: St. Jimmy and JOS. "St. Jimmy" sorta references this near the end. | |
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Did Not Get the Girl | |
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Did Not Get the Girl: "Whatsername". In the musical, this applies not only to Johnny, but to Will as well, although Heather is at least letting him be a part of his daughter's life. | |
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"Dear John" Letter | |
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"Dear John" Letter: The premise of "Letterbomb". | |
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Double Consciousness | |
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Double Consciousness: Depending on interpretation, St. Jimmy might be Jesus's destructive split personality rather than his toxic best friend. | |
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TV Head Robot | |
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Tv Head Robot: The musical often has images of people with televisions for heads painted in the background. | |
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Double-Meaning Title | |
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Double-Meaning Title: "American Idiot" at first appears to only refer to the vapidity of mainstream American society, but it also turns out to refer to the ineffectuality of the punk movement. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: In the musical. "When It's Time" is a slow, quiet love song played on the acoustic guitar. It is immediately followed by "Know Your Enemy", a loud, uptempo rage song. | |
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Loudness War | |
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Loudness War: Pretty badly. Even the ballads like "Wake Me Up When September Ends" are clipped. Some of the HD releases of the album are a lot better, though. The HDTracks release has DR9 compared to the CD's DR5. | |
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Coming of Age Story | |
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Coming of Age Story: For JOS. | |
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Break-Up Song | |
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Break-Up Song: "Letterbomb", which plays when Whatsername gets fed up with her and St. Jimmy/JOS's punk life and tells him that there's no point to living like this. | |
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Wanderlust Song | |
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Wanderlust Song: "Tales of Another Broken Home", the last section of "Jesus of Suburbia." | |
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Hard Truth Aesop | |
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Hard Truth Aesop: There are some things in life you're only going to truly understand after making painful mistakes. | |
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You Are What You Hate | |
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You Are What You Hate: Whatsername points this out in "Letterbomb", but the entire album deals with this. Jimmy is a lazy, hypocritical rebel without a cause, and at the end of the day, he returns home having achieved nothing. He is really just another American Idiot. | |
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No Name Given | |
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No Name Given: Whatsername. Come the end of the album, JOS has repressed her real name. The album booklet has her name scribbled over or a little note saying "Whatsername" taped over it. You can vaguely make out that her name ends with the letter "A". Same for the Extraordinary Girl. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: Who knew the punks from "Basket Case" and "Longview" were so serious! | |
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Troubled, but Cute | |
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Troubled, but Cute: Johnny, writing to Will about Whatsername: "She knows I'm full of shit but at least she thinks I'm cute." | |
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Subdued Section | |
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Subdued Section: The "Dearly Beloved" section of "Jesus of Suburbia", "Nobody Likes You" in "Homecoming". | |
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Lyrical Dissonance | |
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Lyrical Dissonance: The first segment of "Homecoming" picks up the guitar riffs of "St. Jimmy", which generally still sounds pretty energetic, even when slowed down. Quite ironic when the lyrics describe how St. Jimmy "blew his brains out into the bay". | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
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Despair Event Horizon: "Are We the Waiting" for JOS, as he starts going into Sanity Slippage and questioning who he is. | |
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Cover Drop | |
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Cover Drop: "She's a Rebel" ("She's a symbol of resistance, and she's holding on my heart like a hand grenade"). Interestingly enough, the line was inspired by the cover art, rather than the other way around. | |
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You Won't Feel a Thing! | |
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You Won't Feel a Thing!: "Give Me Novacaine": | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business | |
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O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Not out of character, but out of concept: "Wake Me Up When September Ends" has nothing to do with the plot, but is about Billie Joe Armstrong coping with the loss of his father who died when he was only a child. | |
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Freudian Trio | |
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Freudian Trio: Jimmy is the ID, JOS is the ego, and "Whatsername" is the superego (considering that she's the only one who ever calls JOS out). | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song | |
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Surprisingly Gentle Song: "Wake Me Up When September Ends". While it's not necessarily a quiet song, it's still the gentlest and most emotive song on the album, due to it being a song about Billie Joe's late father. When "Homecoming" starts with just an electric guitar and a voice singing a bittersweet song through what sounds like a telephone, you know the mood is about to change. | |
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War Is Hell | |
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War Is Hell: The video to "Wake Me Up When September Ends", which is about a soldier sent off to Iraq. In the end the girlfriend cries in despair over the news. | |
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Fading into the Next Song | |
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Fading into the Next Song: "Holiday" → "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (accompanied by the music video). "Are We the Waiting" → "St. Jimmy" "Give Me Novocaine" → "She's A Rebel" The static at the end of "Extraordinary Girl" transitions into "Letterbomb". The musical added a lot more of these, since it has a more clearly flowing story. "Favorite Son" → "Are We the Waiting" → "St. Jimmy" "She's A Rebel/Last Of The American Girls" → "Last Night On Earth" "Before The Lobotomy" → "Extraordinary Girl" → "Before The Lobotomy (Reprise)" "21 Guns" → "Letterbomb" | |
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Break-Up Bonfire | |
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Break-Up Bonfire: Mentioned in "Whatsername". | |
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