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Okay. At first this might sound really weird but I thought this could be an interesting thing.

For those of you who know all about Amanda and what not, you will see why this is not so weird. For those of you who don't well then use this topic to be educated!! It is a really interesting element to the Green Day story...

Also, I was watching a youtube video the other day ( I can't remember what) but someone commented something along the lines of

"My mom dated Billie Joe when she was in highschool. She dumped him because she thought he had no talent in his stupid garage band. Now my whole family loves green day"

Something like that, so that's interesting too.

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Okay. At first this might sound really weird but I thought this could be an interesting thing.

For those of you who know all about Amanda and what not, you will see why this is not so weird. For those of you who don't well then use this topic to be educated!! It is a really interesting element to the Green Day story...

Also, I was watching a youtube video the other day ( I can't remember what) but someone commented something along the lines of

"My mom dated Billie Joe when she was in highschool. She dumped him because she thought he had no talent in his stupid garage band. Now my whole family loves green day"

Something like that, so that's interesting too.

so uh... check your history and link the video?

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I listened to Amanda and I remembered about all the other songs about her and that was the idea for this

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When I think of Beej's girlfriends, the first that comes to mind is Erica from the early days.

I mean, I think that was her name.

I'm getting rusty.

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Lady Cobra and Winona Ryder obviously.

Why isn't there a topic like this for Jeff Matika? His love life must be riveting.

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There was both Amanda and Erica. I learned that in the book I just read.

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I think it's interesting that he still writes songs about Amanda even though they haven't been together for a long time and he's married. He obviously still thinks about her a lot.

I did not know that, thank you :P What book was that? :o

It's called "Nobody Likes You". It's a good book about Green Day. I recommend it.
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I think it's interesting that he still writes songs about Amanda even though they haven't been together for a long time and he's married. He obviously still thinks about her a lot.

It's called "Nobody Likes You". It's a good book about Green Day. I recommend it.

He writes about her from that point of view though, someone who he had a relationship with a long time ago and was important to him but who he's no longer with. Just writing honestly based on his life experiences really. I guess a lot of/most song writers are inspired in their writing by people they've known in the past including girlfriends, they're just not usually actually named. I agree it makes it more interesting, it's like there's a recurring character based on her in his songs through the years.

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I read Nobody Likes You too. It's amazing, I learnt so much more about Green Day from it. Including Amanda. This was a year ago and I don't remember about Erica- educate us!

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Wasn't She based off Erica?

Nah that was Amanda. I don't think he's ever said a song from Dookie onwards was based on anyone other than Amanda (the punk girl he was with for a year while writing Dookie who lived upstairs from the basement apartment he was in, who left to study in Ecuador when they split, and who he didn't see for a long time afterwards, She, Chump, Sassafras Roots, Good Riddance, Whatsername and Amanda are among the songs he's said were inspired by her), and Adrienne (and maybe Lady Cobra lol). I guess he's probably mentioned other girlfriends in relation to earlier songs, don't know any specifically though.
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Nah that was Amanda. I don't think he's ever said a song from Dookie onwards was based on anyone other than Amanda (the punk girl he was with for a year while writing Dookie who lived upstairs from the basement apartment he was in, who left to study in Ecuador when they split, and who he didn't see for a long time afterwards, She, Chump, Sassafras Roots, Good Riddance, Whatsername and Amanda are among the songs he's said were inspired by her), and Adrienne (and maybe Lady Cobra lol). I guess he's probably mentioned other girlfriends in relation to earlier songs, don't know any specifically though.

Ah ok couldn't remember or not

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The thing that confuses me is in Nobody Likes You, it is Erica that says she moves to Ecuador, correct?

No, it was Amanda.

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The thing that confuses me is in Nobody Likes You, it is Erica that says she moves to Ecuador, correct?

I don't know that, but I'm pretty sure it's just one girl that he references with his "one that got away" songs/characters, the one mentioned here:

VH1: How much of Dookie is a love letter to your wife Adrienne?

Billie Joe: There really weren't any songs about her at that time. A lot of the songs are about this girl from San Diego, who went to Cal Berkeley. Adrienne and I weren't going out at the time. We lost contact with each other for about a year. She got engaged to a guy in Minneapolis. Then I got involved with this other girl. I lived in the basement in Berkeley with all these guys from the East Bay and she lived upstairs in the apartment. We ended up having this year-long relationship. The song "She" was about her.

VH1: How did you come to write it?

Billie Joe: She gave me this poem about this empowering woman, which I think is called "She." I wrote the song as an answer back to her. My now ex-girlfriend is also on the songs "Sassafras Roots" and "Chump."

VH1: So how did you and Adrienne get back together?

Billie Joe: My ex-girlfriend was moving to Ecuador to live there for the spring semester. At that point we were going to go on our tour and just keep going. So we had a hasty breakup. I never really talked to her ever again.

VH1: So what's it like now for Adrienne to be married to you and your biggest record is filled with songs about another woman?

Billie Joe: I know she likes that song! I've been married for almost eight years, so Adrienne and I are comfortable enough that I've had a past. She's got a past, too. She was engaged, had boyfriends, had flings, and I'm comfortable with that, otherwise I wouldn't be married to her. Adrienne is the only woman I'll ever love.

I think he only mentioned that her name was Amanda quite recently (trilogy era), but the person described in the interview above is clearly her.

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I really love how comfortable and honest Billie and Addie are. They were willing to work up the courage to find their way back to each other after their break ups. They have a bond that a lot of couples or husbands and wives could only dream of having. I hope when I get married some day, I will have that stong love that B & A share. They are unbreakable.

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Lady Cobra and Winona Ryder obviously.

Why isn't there a topic like this for Jeff Matika? His love life must be riveting.

Winona Ryder? What?

I really love how comfortable and honest Billie and Addie are. They were willing to work up the courage to find their way back to each other after their break ups. They have a bond that a lot of couples or husbands and wives could only dream of having. I hope when I get married some day, I will have that stong love that B & A share. They are unbreakable.

I think the key is that the breakups have to be clean in order to try again later. I've tried again with an ex after a messy breakup and things don't really change. The distrust and pain is still there later.

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Nah that was Amanda. I don't think he's ever said a song from Dookie onwards was based on anyone other than Amanda (the punk girl he was with for a year while writing Dookie who lived upstairs from the basement apartment he was in, who left to study in Ecuador when they split, and who he didn't see for a long time afterwards, She, Chump, Sassafras Roots, Good Riddance, Whatsername and Amanda are among the songs he's said were inspired by her), and Adrienne (and maybe Lady Cobra lol). I guess he's probably mentioned other girlfriends in relation to earlier songs, don't know any specifically though.

I think I read somewhere that Stuart and the Ave. was about her as well - is that right, was the source wrong, or am I misremembering?

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Nah that was Amanda. I don't think he's ever said a song from Dookie onwards was based on anyone other than Amanda (the punk girl he was with for a year while writing Dookie who lived upstairs from the basement apartment he was in, who left to study in Ecuador when they split, and who he didn't see for a long time afterwards, She, Chump, Sassafras Roots, Good Riddance, Whatsername and Amanda are among the songs he's said were inspired by her), and Adrienne (and maybe Lady Cobra lol). I guess he's probably mentioned other girlfriends in relation to earlier songs, don't know any specifically though.

I don't get how Chump is about her. I always assumed it was basically a "I blame the world but no one directly" song. What lyric points to her?

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