gerardsangel4977 Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 yeah and we got a 15 year old obsessed fanboy over here. but all you guys are a good examples: the emberassing green day marketing strategy works. im gonna play angry birds now, listen to broadway versions of green day songs ( ) and watch america got talent, the voice, vmas and every other fucked up shows they once said they never would go there. p.s.: i know a lot of you dont deserve what im saying here. its just... to much at some point. But the *point* is, no one is *forcing* you to watch all these things.....if any of it is not to your taste, you can just ignore it (also, Green Day have played the VMAs for, um, pretty much their entire mainstream career--as mentioned in the broadcast, they've performed there more than any other artist, except for Madonna--So I don't think it was ever on their "never go there' list . The musical was, at one point, but I'm glad they changed their minds on that because it kicked ass!)
WhatserKinx Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 yeah and we got a 15 year old obsessed fanboy over here. but all you guys are good examples: the emberassing green day marketing strategy works. im gonna play angry birds now, listen to broadway versions of green day songs ( ) and watch america got talent, the voice, vmas and every other fucked up shows they once said they never would go there. p.s.: i know a lot of you dont deserve what im saying here. its just... to much at some point. There's nothing wrong with enjoying their promotion. So we can appreciate broadway voices covering Green Day songs, we like playing dumb games because they are GD related and we'll watch shows because there might be a live performance, but that's why a lot of us are here. So it'd be nice if we weren't targeted on a forum meant for huge fans.
Femme Gauche Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 They never said "never go there"... Billie Joe has long talked about his ... appreciation of reality competition shows. The musical does kick ass. And we were all here before this new run of promos, dude. It's nice to see the band's updates about tour, etc. And how does it affect you if some fans like the band members as much as they like the music? Seriously? Maybe you forgot... They are really awesome at what they do. ¬¬.
blitzkriegdeb Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 yeah and we got a 15 year old obsessed fanboy over here. but all you guys are good examples: the emberassing green day marketing strategy works. im gonna play angry birds now, listen to broadway versions of green day songs ( ) and watch america got talent, the voice, vmas and every other fucked up shows they once said they never would go there. p.s.: i know a lot of you dont deserve what im saying here. its just... to much at some point. They also said that they aren't the Network and they don't do drugs. I get what you're saying, it's alot of Green Day all at once, but as Femme said, they never said they'd refuse to do any of these. I'm sure if you went back in time they probably made fun of making a rock opera and wearing make-up, but hell, things change. It's pretty clear to see that the lack of promotion for 21stCB led to its dismal sales, so hell, the more people are aware of the trilogy, the better. And no, they aren't "compromising their values" or any of that bullshit.
Johnny. Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 i gotta just ask ....why do some people think it's cool on here to bitch and moan about green day? i mean of course everyone has their different opinions and should voice them, but some of these seem like they're just looking to fight fans that disagree and get a reaction, but because they're the one being negative they somehow think that makes them superior and in the right? i mean saying "get a life", calling people names, and patronising them isn't exactly a calm debate and doesn't make you seem bigger or smarter... i dunno just been bugging me lately. i might be totally wrong. and to keep on topic; mike's hair is awesome.
Annie, get your gun Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 What do you expected Mike? Your hair looks like a cute nest to live!
WrongWayToSalvation Posted September 14, 2012 Posted September 14, 2012 yeah and we got a 15 year old obsessed fanboy over here. but all you guys are good examples: the emberassing green day marketing strategy works. im gonna play angry birds now, listen to broadway versions of green day songs ( ) and watch america got talent, the voice, vmas and every other fucked up shows they once said they never would go there. p.s.: i know a lot of you dont deserve what im saying here. its just... to much at some point. Who gives a fuck? Why do people care so much about other people? Who cares if someone watches or likes something that's popular, or decides to follow the latest trends? People act as if popularity and trends started happening within the last 10 years or so, when they've been around since the dawn of time (animals follow trends, it's called INSTINCT, do what the others are doing). If I was in a big famous band, I personally wouldn't promote individuality (AKA being different for the sake of being different, which is fucking stupid). I'd promote people to do whatever makes them comfortable, not "rebel against the mainstream" because it's not cool, it's just as much a trend as going with it. The 21st century is the best century to live in when it comes to all forms of entertainment (i.e. Music, television, video games), because there's variety. Practically everything in the past is a victim of nostalgia. I think, I went overboard here. Eh, fuck it.
DTH Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 hey guys i see where you are coming from, you dont see where im coming from. i know i have to deal with the fact green day has become on their own initiative a teeny band. its just difficult. u know for me its more than music what counts. and i really started to feel that when i went to the show in gladbach in germany. the people who are going to their concerts nowadays dont have anything in commmon with the way i understand music and life in general. welcome to paradise playing: no movement. no singing. but filming! heyho heyho. every fucking song. rockstars. but still shining through how awesome they are, when they pull this guy on stage to play she. but then: t-shirt cannons (is this a fucking baseball game?!). 24 songs... for 60 ¤. 1:30 h. goign off stage right into the limousine waiting for them. show done, moneys in the pocket, lets go. and besides me everybody seemed to really had their time of their lifes... and i was just like: hm ok, that was a punk-rock concert? it was like free-time rebellion for buisness and law students. why do i care: cause i still love this band and breaks my heart to see what they have become. and i cant quit, cause sometimes there are still this green day moments and you want to believe that they are still different to nickelback or marroon 5. and im apologizing: i have no right to critisize you. you are the way you are and i cant change that. you are getting my frustration, meanwhile its green day themselves who turned out the way they did. you didnt made them, they attracted you because of the way they are. and im generalizing their fanbase and this forum i know. i do know its not that easy and balck and white, but its easier to write about it that way. and im not that bitter like i may sound.
eastbayweirdo Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 Mikes last pic... Hahaha wow. Hot wife though!
kelly42fox Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 In many ways I see where you're coming from. You see them and think, 'Wasn't this about music? Why all the fanfare?!' Unfortunately, reality sets in. Green Day the band has gotten too big. I don't think even they expected it. I think they've done an excellent job adapting to the fact that their band isn't just a band anymore... Its a machine, a business. They do what they have to do to keep it going. And it affords them some luxuries that they wouldn't normally have... eg, Lets make a musical for the hell of it... But I know they're still having fun with it and still producing good music. And to me, that's what matters. All the rest of it... I can take it or leave it... But I like to look at it in a positive light; it's fun and exciting. I think it's cool that they're willing to share stuff with the fans on Instagram... Why not? (I've been a fan since Dookie, btw)
WrongWayToSalvation Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 hey guys i see where you are coming from, you dont see where im coming from. i know i have to deal with the fact green day has become on their own initiative a teeny band. its just difficult. u know for me its more than music what counts. and i really started to feel that when i went to the show in gladbach in germany. the people who are going to their concerts nowadays dont have anything in commmon with the way i understand music and life in general. welcome to paradise playing: no movement. no singing. but filming! heyho heyho. every fucking song. rockstars. but still shining through how awesome they are, when they pull this guy on stage to play she. but then: t-shirt cannons (is this a fucking baseball game?!). 24 songs... for 60 ¤. 1:30 h. goign off stage right into the limousine waiting for them. show done, moneys in the pocket, lets go. and besides me everybody seemed to really had their time of their lifes... and i was just like: hm ok, that was a punk-rock concert? it was like free-time rebellion for buisness and law students. why do i care: cause i still love this band and breaks my heart to see what they have become. and i cant quit, cause sometimes there are still this green day moments and you want to believe that they are still different to nickelback or marroon 5. and im apologizing: i have no right to critisize you. you are the way you are and i cant change that. you are getting my frustration, meanwhile its green day themselves who turned out the way they did. you didnt made them, they attracted you because of the way they are. and im generalizing their fanbase and this forum i know. i do know its not that easy and balck and white, but its easier to write about it that way. and im not that bitter like i may sound. The only reason I started listening to Green Day is because "green" is my favorite color. And I'm not lying or joking about that. I don't care if they're the biggest sell-outs on the planet. If people can still like GnR even though Axl Rose is a dick, then why can't you like Green Day because they're "sell-outs"?
spark in the night Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 I'm kind of..um... yeah. Not sure what to think of Mike's latest picture.
blitzkriegdeb Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 Britt's fucking fit! Can't believe she's had 2 kids.
belinda jane Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 That was the last thing I was expecting on Mike's instagram... I don't even know what to say!
kelly42fox Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 Yeahhhh.... I may have spoken too soon... There are things I don't want to see (whether it's really Brit or not)...
It's Splash Time Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 That was the last thing I was expecting on Mike's instagram... I don't even know what to say! Lost a dare? I didn't expect that. At all. I don't think I want to post the actual picture here Wow.mike_dosxx Score mike1 Britt 0 14minhttp://distilleryimage5.s3.amazonaws.com/a6c9126cfeca11e180ff22000a1e8889_7.jpg
farley drexel hatcher Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 lol i wasn't sure what to expect after all the posts about mike's last pic but honestly i'm not shocked by it in the slightest? but then there were some portraits they had done a few years ago that were in a similar vein that leaked so i guess i'm just desensitized. looks like he's just messing around haha.
warding_off_regrets Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 I think it's cool you posted that - it takes a big person to disagree respectfully like that. I'd just like to mention that Green Day, if we're looking at this objectively, has always attracted a "teeny" crowd since they signed to a major label. Look back to videos from the Dooke era and you'll see 15 year old girls saying "I love When I Come Around and Billie Joe is so cute." Their faces were on posters in tween magazines and the whole bit. The reason Green Day made it so big as a "punk" band when so many others didnt is because they have been, and always will be, a brand of "punk" that the mainstream finds palatable. Punk that mom and dad will let you listen to. That is to say...they haven't ever been a strictly punk band. And again, going back as far as Dookie, they talk about how suddenly trust fund kids and jocks were coming to their shows - people who the members of Green Day never had a connection to growing up. You still have those people - the people who are there for the singles - and if camera phones had existed in 1994, you can bet your ass they would have been held up high then, too. And I really don't see the problem with t-shirt guns when they're already selling merchandise at their shows.
gdpony Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 I'm kind of..um... yeah. Not sure what to think of Mike's latest picture. Same here. I must be honest and say I think that's a bit weird.
gerardsangel4977 Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 Who gives a fuck? Why do people care so much about other people? Who cares if someone watches or likes something that's popular, or decides to follow the latest trends? People act as if popularity and trends started happening within the last 10 years or so, when they've been around since the dawn of time (animals follow trends, it's called INSTINCT, do what the others are doing). If I was in a big famous band, I personally wouldn't promote individuality (AKA being different for the sake of being different, which is fucking stupid). I'd promote people to do whatever makes them comfortable, not "rebel against the mainstream" because it's not cool, it's just as much a trend as going with it. The 21st century is the best century to live in when it comes to all forms of entertainment (i.e. Music, television, video games), because there's variety. Practically everything in the past is a victim of nostalgia. I think, I went overboard here. Eh, fuck it. I agree that being different for the sake of being different is silly. But I think Green Day's message is much closer to what you have said here. They have often asserted that people should just be themselves. I even remember Billie mentioning something about how it doesn't matter if people are wearing jelly bracelets and the like, as long as they're doing it because it's what they like and not because it's what they think they should like. hey guys i see where you are coming from, you dont see where im coming from. i know i have to deal with the fact green day has become on their own initiative a teeny band. its just difficult. u know for me its more than music what counts. and i really started to feel that when i went to the show in gladbach in germany. the people who are going to their concerts nowadays dont have anything in commmon with the way i understand music and life in general. welcome to paradise playing: no movement. no singing. but filming! heyho heyho. every fucking song. rockstars. but still shining through how awesome they are, when they pull this guy on stage to play she. but then: t-shirt cannons (is this a fucking baseball game?!). 24 songs... for 60 ¤. 1:30 h. goign off stage right into the limousine waiting for them. show done, moneys in the pocket, lets go. and besides me everybody seemed to really had their time of their lifes... and i was just like: hm ok, that was a punk-rock concert? it was like free-time rebellion for buisness and law students. why do i care: cause i still love this band and breaks my heart to see what they have become. and i cant quit, cause sometimes there are still this green day moments and you want to believe that they are still different to nickelback or marroon 5. and im apologizing: i have no right to critisize you. you are the way you are and i cant change that. you are getting my frustration, meanwhile its green day themselves who turned out the way they did. you didnt made them, they attracted you because of the way they are. and im generalizing their fanbase and this forum i know. i do know its not that easy and balck and white, but its easier to write about it that way. and im not that bitter like i may sound. One thing that is supremely confusing me...and I think this may just be a result of poor English translating, but didn't you say in a prior post that your were 15 years old?
spark in the night Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 I normally don't do this, but I'm going to. Keep this thread on topic.
Florence Posted September 15, 2012 Posted September 15, 2012 Lost a dare? I didn't expect that. At all. I don't think I want to post the actual picture here Wow.mike_dosxx Score mike1 Britt 0 14minhttp://distilleryima...00a1e8889_7.jpg :mellow:
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