Do you think that Green Day's image matters?

[1039slappygirl]

Of course, I think it does matters if they look healthy and clean whatever the clothes, hairdo or make up they wear. I think that makes a band more appealing to people, so it's good they care about the way they look (not in an obsessive way). I mean, I would still love them just as I do it now and have respect for them if they look was dirty or whatever, because I know who they are, but the people who doesn't like them that much and barely know about them would be likely to lost interest in them.

[Metanoia]

it depends to be honest. if there is gossip and rumours around or if people cant get along with their attitude and try to put them down i dont care. but if there happened something really bad. i mean if they really did SHIT. idk......i wouldnt look up to them as persons anymore as idols. so i'd still love the music but think of them as a band (from the personalities) like all others. but thank god they still have a huuuuuuuge place in my heart and nothing happened yet that could destroy this

[Metanoia]

^^^ Off topic, but great sig and Avatar. Old school Tech 12s, BJ, and the Beatles. 3 of my favorite things.

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[DorkWithAFork]

Well, I think it started to really matter in the AI era, when fangirls started only liking Billie, etc. I think AI attracted a lot of teeny boppers (not saying that AI is bad music -- you know what I mean). Like, the kind of people who start to scream when Longview is played at a concert, thinking it's a new song. I'll have to investigate these people's minds

[Maddy.]

it shouldn't, but it does

[anya.]

for me, their image never mattered. I started to listen them in their AI era, but at that time I was very young and I saw just two or three pictures of the band, so I wasn't one of those teenage girls, wannabe Green Day fans. I wasn't using internet back then and all I had were some articles of them from magazines and one poster and first just AI cd. then I bought the other CDs and strated to know the band.

overall I think image matters, but I think with Green Day a little less, than with all the others in music. hundreds of girls, for example, likes bieber just 'cause they think he's hot, but he's not at all if you ask me.

whatever they were, I would've listened to them. I love their music too much..

[Dry_Ice]

Image is EVERYTHING in Hollywood. It's become to the point that music isn't music anymore and just an image. So in the case of Green Day, image did matter at the time of AI and as of now. That sold them a lot more records and merch etc. Yes their music did, but Hollywood or the mainstream media uses sexual desire to sell things. It's everywhere, it just happens so fucking often we, as a people, are blinded by that. Sad, isn't it? I love Green Day, no doubt, but the change of image did help them sell so many more records. I think that's sad... for any band. But we don't know for sure why they wanted to change their look, so we can't even judge or say a thing, and that's how it should be y'know?

The only reason why 21CB didn't do as well, had nothing to do with looks. Our world, well mainly America, was on overload of Green Day for years. They were marketed VERY well, and mainly to a younger crowd (which always, in fact, did bug me... but nevertheless). They were marketed a little bit too well... they were just fucking everywhere. And to many people it was the same shit and the same songs overrrrrr and over again. So I can see why you would get sick of that.. because well, it's easy to. It's just in your face 24/7. So when it came time to release 21CB, it was all so different. They weren't marketed as much, or as well, that is... and their look was more mature.. and they just looked like men that were ready to rock out. It wasn't a big dramatic change in image or much. Many people were opposed to GD again because they thought it would be the same shit again and many people were sick of that. Or they were dissatisfied with their 'new' sound. But image didn't play as much role in 21CB than AI, that's for sure.

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Wow, I just rambled on. I'm sorry

As for MY opinion, image probably did matter to me... I just didn't realize it, just like everyone else on this forum that is attracted to the male population. It's always gonna be there, even if we don't think so. It's bound to happen...

[Mommy's Little Nightmare]

I'd say... their image doesn't actually matter to me, but the thing about the music industry- is that image is a big part of it. Especially today. Look at Lady Gaga. People love her. She's got that wild and ridiculous image- and people eat it up.

With Green Day... I don't think it matters all that much, but it definitely matters. Their image went along with American Idiot with the black eyeliner, and the black get-ups. It just fit what that album was getting at. This time around- sometimes they'll do it, sometimes they won't. Hell, even back in the Dookie era, you could find Billie onstage with the black outfit and red tie. Look at Woodstock.

I think American Idiot would have been successful no matter what, but do I believe the image they had during that era helped them? Oh yeah.

And even though they did have an image, and upheld it pretty well- I don't feel like it was anyone telling them that they had to. Sure, someone might have suggested it, but I think for the most part- they didn't mind it. They seemed to even like it. So it's not like they were just doing what they were told by some executive somewhere.