They’ve copped to it and are even listed as writers. Many artists release under pseudonyms if they’re working on something that doesn’t fit in with the rest of their brand, the probable commercial viability is a liability, or they want to avoid legal arrangements with the label representing their main act.
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Pinhead Gunpower, Foxboro Hot Tubs, The Network … Green Day’s been randomly releasing albums under secret names for a while now. And they’re all pretty delightful, if you like Green Day! (which I do)
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The best part of this song is that it’s actually about Johnny Ramone
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Ah - and gay people can’t be homophobic. Larry Craig and Ted Haggard were gay civil rights icons.
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Whether it’s acting as a kapo voting bloc for a right-wing populist demagogue or holding gatherings of 1000s of people in the midst of a pandemic [latest incident here], American Orthodox Jews – especially the Schneerson Messianic Cult – seem to have a real self-destructive streak.
One would have to be truly ignorant to disagree with that.
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And Black people can’t be self-hating bigots who work to advance White supremacy.
Pay no attention to the existence of Candice Owens, Omarosa or Dave Clark; they’re all merely figments of someone’s active imagination, obviously.
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Being Jewish doesn’t mean a person can’t be a Nazi. Especially if that person is the rich blonde daughter of the world’s most prominent White Supremacist and knows damn well that the fascists are on her side in this particular culture war.
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Recall that the biggest villain in Django Unchained wasn’t Leonardo DiCaprio’s character, it was Samuel L. Jackson’s.
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I didn’t finish watching that torture-porn nonsense which was yet another thinly veiled excuse to use the offensive racial slur “nigger” excessively, but I am aware that the house slave Stephen was the more insidious character.
Indeed, I loathe self-hating Black racists even more than I do their White counterparts, because they make the struggle even harder than it already is.
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I suppose there is an argument to be made that Tarantino is the real villain of the movie too.
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FTFY.
All I can say is that it would be a very unwise idea for him to ever come to my 'hood thinking he’s got an inherent “all access ghetto pass.”
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Their alter-ego The Network released their debut in 2003. Green Day’s first release was in the late ‘80s.
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One who occasionally gets his comeuppance.
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So they finally figured out how to be a proper punk band. You can teach an old dog new tricks I guess.
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You know there were nazis who were Jewish right?
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I miss when they tried to sound like cripmshrine and jawbreaker
The idea that this is Devo + Green Day really checks out with the sound, and also that two bands that critiqued culture, when older, dropped the metaphors and just decided to tell us what they mean (I notice aging musicians tend to eschew poetry for prose).
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I mean, I like Green Day, but only own their first album and a best of. I should maybe look into this other stuff.
FTFY
(My band does a cover of “Kiss The Bottle” that we might put on our next album)
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