Idiot America

Any sort of all-inclusive (or exclusive) statement is bound to be wrong.

Although, I share the frustration with Obama, mainly for the items on the list McG just posted.

But, as I look on these days, I see people that slammed Bush for many of the exact same flaws being apologetic for Obama. Hypocrisy is running rampant in the liberal circles these days. Not that it wasn't expected. I am positive the Right side is being equally hypocritical in complaining about the things Obama is or is not doing that would have been defended if "their guy" was in office.

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I don't pretend anything, I merely listed examples of his failures thus far to interrupt the regularly scheduled preening of the left wing. If you really think things have changed that much since Bush, I doubt anything I say would effect that belief.

Re-read the thread from the beginning as I did before posting here.

Quote:

Don't want to be an American idiot.
Don't want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind **** America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
For that's enough to argue.

My god, is this a song for the ages or what? I've always loved Green Day and especially loved the album "American Idiot"....it came out at just the right time. However, with the new Obama-Devil hysteria, this song/album is as real as ever.

I love America. I love my country and the ideals it's founded on. But holy ****, are there a bunch of whacked out sheep out there....follow what you think might be the truth because you want it to be the truth and it maybe supports some of what you believe regardless of the accuracy of the statement or movement.

I got an email from my family who's email stated " What's missing in this photo of President Obama? He said he'd change America but nobody was paying attention!" The photo shows him at a press conference without the flag behind him. Then it shows 4 other photos of Presidents with the flag behind them, as though these 5 pictures represent every press conference ever held. I guess one looking at this email is suppose to believe that every other time there was a flag behind the President. Or that there were never any other press conferences/speeches where there wasn't a flag backdrop because this emails shows FOUR examples of where there was a flag backdrop. I especially love the part about "nobody paying attention" since well, isn't that exactly what the people who believe and pass on this information are doing?

If you dislike Obama, that's great. We wouldn't be anywhere if people all agreed on everything. But for the love of God, at least hate him for something REAL.

This is what pisses me off most about the anti-Obama movement. The sheer ignorance that is shown by people who want nothing more than to make this guy a monster. They spend all this time looking for mistakes and things to get him on....he's a politician. Is it really that difficult to find something negative that's true?

With American Idiot, Green Day have achieved what a lot of high-profile, critically-acclaimed bands have tried and failed to do: create a great album about the post-9/11 era. An ambitious concept album about a suburban kid’s response to his world, American Idiot is a loud, angry, confused record that’s perfectly in keeping with out turbulent times. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong hasn’t just written his best series of songs since his band’s 1994 breakthrough, Dookie – he’s managed to turn current events into universal laments without coming across as strident or preachy.

With their eighth studio album, Green Day finds themselves in a post-American Idiot world and sifting through the consequences of nearly a decade of manipulation, lies, selfishness, and bullshit of the highest order.

The band is older, wiser, and more motivated than ever with 21st Century Breakdown, a seething, brilliant concept album divided into three parts.

Produced by Garbage member Butch Vig, 21st Century Breakdown runs through the narrative of Christian and Gloria, a young couple working through the shattered promises of this century. They live in a world that has let them down and the conventions they have come to rely upon have left them philosophically and spiritually lifeless.

Billie Joe Armstrong’s writing is even more spirited here, as their Johnny-come-lately approach to the Bush Administration left American Idiot a potent record that felt inadequately late to the party. This time, however, the trio starts the jamboree early and never lets up.

Perhaps the notion of big time rockers having something to say about the world, be it the environment or the government, is a little worn out and perhaps their words feel a little vacant at times. But every so often a band or singer steps through the affectation, rips away the film, and tells the truth. Springsteen did it with The Rising and now it’s safe to say that Green Day has done it with 21st Century Breakdown.

Where perhaps a failing of American Idiot was that the songs got a little too immense for the band, here Green Day has chopped things down and kept it lean. The compositions flow effortlessly, ranging from the power punk the band’s become famous for to deliberately sensitive ballads complete with Armstrong nailing a surplus of untamed notes.

Clocking in at a smidgen under 70 minutes, 21st Century Breakdown rolls through 18 tracks of candor, authority, and larger-than-life storytelling. The tempo shifts, key changes, strings, and thunderous guitar keeps things popping, with Tre Cool hammering his snare vehemently and Mike Dirnt’s bass rocking the lower registry expertly.

The first segment of the record, “Act I: Heroes and Cons,” begins after a pithy foreword and sets up our protagonists.

Read more: http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-green-day-21st-century/#ixzz0rsFvUnhj