Maybe this whole shitstorm would be more “punk-rock” if he wasn’t 4ft3 and all “emo’d” to the hilt. Oh and if they weren’t opening for USHER at (?!?!?!) an iHeartRadio Festival!!
iHeartRadio? The fuck?
Look at the audience. Have you ever - EVER!! - seen a more white bread Sweet Valley High looking bunch assembled in one room to watch a band play in your life? I’ll bet they’re all excited to the max, listening to their pin up boy band say the naughty “f” word ALOT!!
Just listen to the little guy though. (Apparently) He’s been punk rocking around since “nineteen fucken eighty eight”. Goodness gracious that’s a long time. I’ll bet the parents of most of the audience members were around 12 years old then. Kudos for lasting so long.
Oh, but we shouldn’t laugh. I mean they ARE famous, right Void-y ol’ chap. Isn’t fame and notoriety a wonderful thing?
Somewhere,far off in a parallel universe, somebody is taking this seriously.
That’s the most entertaining thing he’s done since Insomniac. I was a Green Day fan as a kid and it made me sad how they went to shit after that god awful Time Of Your Life came out.
It’s entertaining, if only to watch a bunch of cashed up 40 somethings relive their adolescent angst as if it were yesterday.
Saying fuck in front of a crowd of kids who’d look more at home on the set of a Gilmore Girls episode. Green Day, you guys live dangerously!
Don’t they have a new album or something coming out soon? If so then all this is remarkably timed controversy. Although I use the term controversy in the same context I’d use it in to describe an article about Miley Ray Cyrus showing her butt crack in public.
Actually, I’d be surprised if Miley wasn’t in the audience herself.
The only “punk rock band” to have a broadway play based on one of their albums.
Weak.
Didn’t se him freak out but the wife tld m about it. Apparently he’s gone back to rehab!
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grmpysmrf
That’s awesome!
“I’m not Justin Bieber, motherf***ers!!!”
Uhh, you’re on a bill with Usher and Rihanna for I Heart Radio. Your songs are played at High School proms. Your music is featured in a Broadway musical. Soccer moms and 13 year olds hold hands while enjoying your family-friendly entertainment. But you throw an emo hissy fit when things don’t go your way . . .
The only difference between you and Bieber is he’s a professional and acts like more of a man than you do, Billy Boy.
Was this also news on all the talk shows? Then it probably is a stunt.
Hilarious though. What’s a rock band doing on a show that seems to be primarily pop? To add variety? Not really his venue, that’s why they kicked you off stage to make room for Usher!!! Don’t get mad brah! xDDDDDDDDDDDD
Was this also news on all the talk shows? Then it probably is a stunt.
Hilarious though. What’s a rock band doing on a show that seems to be primarily pop? To add variety? Not really his venue, that’s why they kicked you off stage to make room for Usher!!! Don’t get mad brah! xDDDDDDDDDDDD
I’m more interested in hearing the back story on how this all went down. That is, when were they advised of the shortened time slots, did Usher just play through his time limit or was it already agreed? Did Green Day follow Usher and had to absorb the bulk of the time impact? I sort of feel his frustration, but (as we’ve all pointed out), when you’re on the G-rated teeny-bopper bill with the Jonas Bros and Miley Cyrus, you shouldn’t expect to get top priority.
He brags about being in the game since 19-eighty-f***ing-eight as if that’s a proud accomplishment. Look, Bill, being “old school” may impress the wannabe college punks at your Starbucks, but these are Junior Highers we’re talkin’ about and old is not a good thing. I’m pretty sure you’re not going to have a conversation with many of them about Lemmy and Iggy Pop.
This story is just hilarious to me. I’m looking forward to all the idiotic “fallout”. Billy will probably issue some statement blasting the show for treating him unfairly in which he’ll position himself and his band as the underdog saviours of rock and roll rebellion . . .
yeah, it kind of looks choreographed…especially when they stop playing. they all kind of stopped at the same time, like they knew it was going to happen.
Since I have never seen a Green Day show and don’t really know their usual demeanor/ behaviour it’s hard for me to say, but my reaction was more that this was fairly typical primadonna behaviour by a wannabe Axl Rose, and the other guys seemed to be more just rolling their eyes and unphased in a jaded manner. Kind of a “Yep, here we go again,” type of moment. Plus, I’m thinking his bandmates were a bit more professional and when the clock was pointed out to them were already ready to leave the stage.
It is one of those funny/douchey moments that can be totally overdissected and analyzed. If it was pre-planned that makes it even worse, in my opinion.
As for smashing the guitar . . . a quality solid body is pretty tough to destroy with just one or two chops (especially on a wood stage which absorbs a lot of the impact). If he was pre-planning the guitar smash he should have grabbed a hollow-body or a semi-hollow as you can just obliterate those (especially a cheap knockoff) and send scraps flying all around.
Anyway, I never liked Green Day, so it never bothered me whether they ever sold-out or went mainstream or whatever. But, as it’s kind of been implied, don’t try to backpedal and start flashing your punk-rock street cred badge at the Teen Choice Awards or Oprah Winfrey Presents Rock Out America, or whatever stupid corporate pile of dogcrap this was.
Also . . . rehab? Good for him if he actually needs it, but he seems 100% sober and coherent in that clip if you ask me. I feel bad for the people who actually bought tickets to a Green Day concert later on if they’re getting denied now. Because it seems to me more like the little pansy just wants to hide in a closet for a while.
Oh, and another thing . . . what’s with all this “Green Day apologizes for anyone they offended” crap? Seriously? Apologizing . . . for offending someone at the Usher concert . . . because you let a few F-Bombs fly? Or they’re offended because you took a swipe at the Biebs? Either way . . . I can’t think of anything less punk than apologizing for your ungentlemanly behaviour on the IHeartRadio stage.
He needs to enroll in the john lydon school of assholery in order to really get his punk cred rolling. But being the ultimate in coolness in his supreme dickheadednish, lydon would never give him entrance into such a school.
Late,
grmpysmrf
He needs to enroll in the john lydon school of assholery in order to really get his punk cred rolling. But being the ultimate in coolness in his supreme dickheadednish, lydon would never give him entrance into such a school.
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grmpysmrf
Yeah, I think Billy Joe got his punk rock degree from the Good Charlotte Institute instead.