Losing Interest In Green Day ?

[The Flunkie Only Along For The Ride]

what a coin-ki-dink! i've lost interest in them over the past several months........actually, i wouldn't say im losing interest. 4 about 8 months, all's i would listen 2 is gd. i guess im just taking a well-deserved break, haha....lately i've been listening 2 other bands so yeaaa.

p.s.--i feel a HIM obsession coming on! (haha)

[farley drexel hatcher]

What i'm saying is you can't claim to be this big, huge fan of a band, and then drop them once they go quiet. If you can do that then you couldn't really be that serious about them in the first place, specially since most of the people saying it only got into them in the last year or so.

Of course people change music tastes, but that doesnt happen over night!

[iluvgdlikecrazy]

I think a lot of people lose interest for the wrong reasons. A bunch of older fans stopped liking them because all of a sudden they were a big hit again, newer fans lost interest once they stopped playing them all the time on MTV.

Of course I listen to other music all the time, and even though I only listen to a GD song every once in a while, that doesn't mean I've lost interest in them. It's hard not to get tired of hearing about them everyday. You guys can like them as much or little as you want. You don't have to come to this forum or GDA everyday, I do. For awhile last year I was so tired of posting stuff about them being in this magazine or that online article, it gets boring, redundant, and I don’t think it helps people understand Green Day. It just feeds this sort of cancer-like plague of teenagers who are "Green Days biggest fans" all of a sudden because they know how to spell Billie Joe. It's annoying.

You don’t have to listen to them 24/7 or visit GDA three times a day to consider yourself interested or a fan. Someone said something like "I think if you lose interest you aren't a real fan," or something and that’s total bullshit. Fans are many different things. Someone doesn't need to be obsessed to be a fan. You just need to like their music. And I think for the most part, everyone on this forum still respects them for their music. Some don't even respect them, a lot of people think their music is too simple to respect, but if they like the music they are still fans.

You cannot rate your level of interest by how often you listen to them, how often you check gda or post on this forum. Millions of people are interested in their music, so when they put something out, all these people are into it. They don't need to have daily updates on what’s going on to be interested.

i agree with andres 100%

[greencarrot]

I think I'm out of I-love-green-day-forever-and-they-rule-my-fucking-world-kind-o-shit , I'm starting to calm down . I still love them though.

[farley drexel hatcher]

Yeah Andres thread said pretty much exactly what i was trying to.

[marr]

i got bored with them for awhile, but i didnt wanna admit i was losing interest because they're likea boyfriend and im the kind of person that wont say anything just incase it hurts someones feelings...even though it wont at all cuase they'd never know. but i just felt like that for some reason. + i had a huge crush on mike ness for a little bit when i got some new dvds, so yeah they took the backseat.

it's just becuase when you're constantly listening to them, and you've pretty much listened to all the unreleased vids/songs on the internet you're now kinda just waiting for something new to boost that interest again

[allenxtreme]

Alas, I knew someone would bring it up. But sure, whatever, don't back up your point.

look, i can back up my point, but not in this thread, pm me or whatever, I don't wanna spam up this thread.

[zoki]

What i'm saying is you can't claim to be this big, huge fan of a band, and then drop them once they go quiet. If you can do that then you couldn't really be that serious about them in the first place, specially since most of the people saying it only got into them in the last year or so.

Of course people change music tastes, but that doesnt happen over night!

I agree.

Like I said earlier in this thread (pretty sure I did), there is no sense in claiming you're not a fan all of a sudden. Be it of personal reasons (some people think that bands are ment to satisfy their own personal ethics, whatever), or a newly found taste in music. Either way, it doesn't make any sense.

I've lost interest in bands I liked as a child (it was a gradual thing, none of this, dropping them cold-turkey). But if someone were to ask me about them, I wouldn't hesitate on telling them how much they ment to me in my early years of rock. It's a loyalty thing.

look, i can back up my point, but not in this thread, pm me or whatever, I don't wanna spam up this thread.

You just did. *insert that sticking-your-tongue-out smiley*

It is the right thread. Other people have explained why they think what they do, you should too. Makes you look smarter.

[TSL]

I've listened to them too much.

Haven't picked up a CD or played the 175 some songs I have of them in forever.

They've probably passed. blink-182 is something I can listen to forever.

And I've discovered a lot more bands that do the whole "fuck bush" thing a bit better.

[allenxtreme]

yeah I suppose, excuse my ignorance. I dunno, it's what they act like in interviews and in concerts, back in the day, you wouldn't see Billie Joe holding his arms out like Jesus so the audience can clap him, to me that's a big ego, sure he's playing in front of 10,000 plus people, but maybe he could be a little humble, I dunno, other peoples perceptions are different I know, but it's the way I see it.

It's not so different in interviews either, they big the album up alot, which fair does, they have to promote it somehow like any band, but they go over the top i think. That's just the way I see it anyhow, so if anyone wants to open my eyes a little more, please feel free.

[zoki]

yeah I suppose, excuse my ignorance. I dunno, it's what they act like in interviews and in concerts, back in the day, you wouldn't see Billie Joe holding his arms out like Jesus so the audience can clap him, to me that's a big ego, sure he's playing in front of 10,000 plus people, but maybe he could be a little humble, I dunno, other peoples perceptions are different I know, but it's the way I see it.

It's not so different in interviews either, they big the album up alot, which fair does, they have to promote it somehow like any band, but they go over the top i think. That's just the way I see it anyhow, so if anyone wants to open my eyes a little more, please feel free.

Yay!

Okay. As you've noticed, Billie has a very strong stage persona. It's what makes a Green Day gig- a Green Day gig. But by no means does that reflect on his real personality. Scratch that. It does. You have to have a certain form of confidence to be able to control that amount of people. And it's not the first time Billie Joe commands the shows. You can even see it in old shows, what with the whole- ending a song (suddenly), pulling a person up, making them do things, so on.

Interviews- I can get where you are sensing the cockiness from (it appeales to me, but that's beside the pont). Keeping in mind, whenever I've seen them make egotistical statements, they are usually joking (the smiles and laughing give it away).

The over promoting thing- They are the biggest band in the word. They also happen to be on a major-ass label (might have heard of it, starts with a R). I don't know the whole deal, but I'm pretty sure the "milking" and such was not their choice, nor is it that big of a deal. So, fourth graders listen to A.I, it doesn't take away from the album one bit. Also, they are entitled to the money they make off of their hard work. Although, they don't get shit from merch and such, I'm sure they get a satisfying amount.

Woot.

[whatevergirl1]

no, but i can't wait until the next album comes out...

[jesus the rage guy]

the only thing that lost my interest is the fact that nobody opne a new thread called ''coldplay suxs'' again :bored:

[Joe Cool]

I lost interest gradually, but I still listen to them from time to time. They still kick ass, but really, after about three or more years of GDA and almost two years of GDC, you would get tired too because you know almost everything about them, and not on purpose.

[alexeinwonderland]

i barely listen to them anymore. i dunno. i over-did it when I first started liking them.

[Gay Nerd]

i've lost a considerable amount of interest in green day...

ever since about...nimrod, i loved green day, defended green day, and listened to green day a lot... when american idiot came out i still was the same... for a long time after it came out i was the same... but eventually, i stopped caring so much about them... i had already been listening to other music too, but i very rarely listen to green day now days.

i think they will always have that place where they were my favorite band for a majority of my life (well since i've been able to choose what i listen to)... but other bands have definately taken green day's spot of number one.

possible reasons that i stopped liking them so much:

maybe i finally got burnt out from listening to them too much

i found my own better bands for me

maybe got tired of my name being associated with green day

i discovered how cool ska is?

[~*johanna*~]

i'm not losing my interest in GD. i mean, why would i? i may not listen to them now as much as i did when their last album came out...but that's cuz the album was new and exciting and different. that happens with nearly every artist for me, whenever a new record is released.

i'll always enjoy Green Day and the music they've made.

[S.cattered]

who does she say it the best band in the world?

Green Day?

lol it would be funny is she meant a differant band but yeh i think she means Green Day.

[justcause]

yeah I suppose, excuse my ignorance. I dunno, it's what they act like in interviews and in concerts, back in the day, you wouldn't see Billie Joe holding his arms out like Jesus so the audience can clap him, to me that's a big ego, sure he's playing in front of 10,000 plus people, but maybe he could be a little humble, I dunno, other peoples perceptions are different I know, but it's the way I see it.

It's not so different in interviews either, they big the album up alot, which fair does, they have to promote it somehow like any band, but they go over the top i think. That's just the way I see it anyhow, so if anyone wants to open my eyes a little more, please feel free.

The thing is - are you listening to the music? Like, the whole concept of American Idiot, the whole GD catalogue, who Billie Joe is and where he's going with this? Possibly not.

Billie Joe has been going from day one with themes of mortality and destiny, of how he sees life and what makes it worth living, why he should go on, making 'the best of this test'.

That's what he's doing - that's why he wants the biggest band in the world, and from that band 'maximum Green Day'.

In holding out his arms like Jesus, he's being Jesus of Suburbia, which simultaneously defines his pain and mocks his vision of himself and his significance.

He spent two years of his life working on album that was deeply and more overtly personal than anything he'd ever done before, and I don't know how the fuck he had the will to stick with it, it's an inspiration to me and to any artist who's wondered if they'd ever see the light of day. That he wanted to blaze it to the world and celebrate it and generally get happy seems fair enough to me.

You can take American Idiot at face value, and it will certainly fucking rock you and fire you up and stir your emotions; you can also choose to take some time with it, and get the deeper things. It's a vast, beautiful canvas, and the songs are like thumbnails. To get the bigger picture, you have to engage with it and participate - it's the same with any work of art.

American Idiot is, to me, the first great work of art of 21st Century America, something that came from one man's past and came to crystallize the feelings of more than his own generation, right in the present.

And Billie Joe is a great artist; he gives of himself unflinchingly, to everyone else's benefit, and that's the Jesus thing, what he feels and mocks at the same time. If he has ego, that's just part of it - it's what gives him the balls to do what most people wouldn't feel capable of doing, and it usually goes hand-in-hand with its opposite, low self-esteem - it's an over-compensation.

I think more people could consider doing with AI what he said he hoped they'd do - read the lyrics, put some thought into it. There are layers and layers in it, laid on one-by-one over two years by a craftsman and a poet of rock and roll.

[Green_eyed_Rebel]

^^ wow.

thats so true.

i bet thats what most people have been thinking and just cant be stuffed typing out.

i definatley agree with you.

great work of art of the 21st century.

i dont get why people think they're not "punk" anymore. AI is one of the most "punk" things they've ever done.

hm. well this is off topic. anywho, definatley not losing interest.

[Pepsi and Coke]

I'm not loosing intrest, I just need another Green Day album. I think it all counts on the balance of certain albums/songs/artists you have. if you listen to Ai for hours, yeah of course you're gojng to get sick of them.

[Eweeliina]

I'm not losing interest in them or anything, but I haven't been listening to them much lately.

I've discovered so many new bands recently, that Green Day has taken a back-seat. For the time being.

Same with me.

[allenxtreme]

yeah, to be honest I think your both right to an extent, another reason I've stopped listening to them is because, well, im over power chords, I've started listening to more "advanced" music with better guitar skills, like RHCP and the Killers, they use alot of Jazz chords and stuff, helps me develop my skills, listening to Green Day gets boring because it's too predictable. I listen to lyrics and they don't mean anything to me, because I'm not one of them teens who "can't find themselves", Green Day now to me, is a good listen once in a while if I want to jump around and not pay attention to their "talent" I can play all their songs and it got boring, simple.

The holding out his arms thing, umm, I think using the term "Jesus" was a bit vague, what I meant to say is, he opens his arms out for appreciation and acceptance from the crowd, nothing to do with Jesus of Suburbia at all, granted he does it most of the time to get the crowd going, but from my perspective, its to fill his own ego.

[owlnzZzZz]

Not losing interest. I listen to other music, too, but Green Day still gets the most listens from me.

that's right

[AustralianIdiot]

I havent really lost interest, i have just been distracted by other bands at the moment also i just started on a committee for putting together local shows so i have thrown myself in that and am pretty much listening to local bands exclusively.