Green Day

I think someone may have mentioned Green Day previously, but I also wanted to comment on their music. Green Day is infamous for being an alternative punk-rock band that brought about a new style with the emergence of their first singles. As their music progressed, they produced several songs that are very anti-government, especially with that of the American Idiot album.
This album contains a song titled "American Idiot"that feature lyrics against the American government.

"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 fuck 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."

This song is directed against the Bush administration, referring to President George Bush as having "a redneck agenda," showing an obvious disagreement to the administration. Singer Billy Joe Armstrong also refers to America as "one nation controlled by the media," meaning that the people are corrupted by the media and what the government allows the media to publish.
Starting the song and repeating the line "Don't wanna be an American idiot," shows the view that America is so corrupted by the Bush administration that it is not even worth being an American, as that makes you appear as an idiot. The song as a whole makes reference to the idea that perhaps Americans have been brainwashed ("subliminal mindfuck America") to believe that we have a good government administration in place, when there are truly flaws.
Green Day does not identify as an anarchist band, but certainly show anti-government messages in their song "American Idiot" by disagreeing with the Bush administration and demonstrating how we are all idiots for voting and believing in this type of government.

-Julianne Fleck

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