Green Day - American Idiot

Green Day (band) - Billie Joe Armstrong (singer)  -  American Idiot (song)

Published on 21 September 2004

This song protests and complains about the thoughts of USA, that everybody believes what the media and the president says. And it is all a paranoia. It also says, that the president doesn't care so much for the people and his country, saying "where everything isn't meant to be okay". The singer tells that the media controlls the citizens, and these people let this situation happen. He reffers USA with Alien nation, and this could be because everybody is weird, thinking and doing things with no-sense.  The media was focusing on things like terrorism a lot, and the proportion of people who died during those years, wasn't THAT important.  For example, there were more deaths by driving than by terrorism. This made the people get a little bit mad and start worrying about terrorism and other things less important than other ones. Because of that, he says it is the age of paranoia and hysteria.

Now, on the 2017 and 2018 some people have started saying that this song fits perfectly with the new president of USA, Donald Trump. When the song was published was a little bit popular, however, now, the people have started talking about it and has ressurrected to start new protests and that popularity has increased. I have chosen this song because of that. It was a protest song when it was published and now is still a protest song of what is happening nowadays.