One Direction to cover WMUWSE live?

[Elena]

admittedly i didn't realize it had gotten that high on the us hot 100, but still. that's one song, and 22 isn't THAT high. no one who only listens to mainstream pop music would consider green day to be a popular band, now or around the time 21 guns came out. the last time they were truly popular within mainstream music was at the peak of american idiot.

green day were damn popular in 2009/2010, i remember that i recorded MTV Noise with just them and the premier of Last Of The American Girls was also shown there (April 1st if i remember correctly), 21 Guns was on the radio all the time, that's why most people are annoyed by that song (and not only fans, nearly EVERYONE on this planet)...it was that time that i became a fan, because i heard them a lot and liked the music and i did listen to only pop music before...a friend of mine said she bought 21st Century Breakdown at that time because she loved it and she only listens to pop music and doesn't even really like Green Day. Green Day filled whole stadiums and still do, i guess they are popular...now, maybe, they're not seen as totally popular by any mainstream pop music fans but back in 2009 they were, at least in my region...

[DookieLukie]

looks like you love to get banned don't you

It was a joke lol

well, considering they were no longer relevant in 2009, it did pretty well.

21st Century Breakdown sold 219,000 copies in its first THREE days of release. They were still very popular in 2009. And 21 Guns was a big hit in the US. I remember constantly hearing it on the radio, and lots of people in my high school knew it.

[Sarcasm]

It was a joke lol

21st Century Breakdown sold 219,000 copies in its first THREE days of release. They were still very popular in 2009. And 21 Guns was a big hit in the US. I remember constantly hearing it on the radio, and lots of people in my high school knew it.

Shut your whore mouth

I don't care how much of a joke it is, the only joke around here was your delivery

[Maddy.]

i really don't care how "well" it did in the charts or mtv. everyone around me at the time had never heard of them and thought know your enemy was shit. not quite the definition of popular.

[DookieLukie]

I don't care how much of a joke it is, the only joke around here was your delivery

Lots of people all over the internet use that phrase in a joking manner. It comes from a misquote of an Anchorman line. Jeez

[Maddy.]

Lots of people all over the internet use that phrase in a joking manner. It comes from a misquote of an Anchorman line. Jeez

what it comes down to is shut up

[DookieLukie]

i really don't care how "well" it did in the charts or mtv. everyone around me at the time had never heard of them and thought know your enemy was shit. not quite the definition of popular.

Yeah but charts and sales are usually a good way to tell how popular something is. That's like saying "I don't care that BOBD did well on the charts and sold lots of copies. Everyone around me had the OPINION that it wasn't popular.

[Guest]

Lots of people all over the internet use that phrase in a joking manner. It comes from a misquote of an Anchorman line. Jeez

That movie wasn't funny and neither are you tbh.

[Sarcasm]

Lots of people all over the internet use that phrase in a joking manner. It comes from a misquote of an Anchorman line. Jeez

I'm sure many people have said similar things in a lot of movies and shows, but out of context it's just words and not a quote

[Maddy.]

Yeah but charts and sales are usually a good way to tell how popular something is. That's like saying "I don't care that BOBD did well on the charts and sold lots of copies. Everyone around me had the OPINION that it wasn't popular.

Green Day was popular at the peak of American Idiot. And BOBD was top of the charts. 21 Guns didn't even make it to top 10 generally.

[Sarcasm]

That movie wasn't funny and neither are you tbh.

thats a subjective thing to say

[Maddy.]

thats a subjective thing to say

still factual

[ifmemoryserves]

green day were damn popular in 2009/2010, i remember that i recorded MTV Noise with just them and the premier of Last Of The American Girls was also shown there (April 1st if i remember correctly), 21 Guns was on the radio all the time, that's why most people are annoyed by that song (and not only fans, nearly EVERYONE on this planet)...it was that time that i became a fan, because i heard them a lot and liked the music and i did listen to only pop music before...a friend of mine said she bought 21st Century Breakdown at that time because she loved it and she only listens to pop music and doesn't even really like Green Day. Green Day filled whole stadiums and still do, i guess they are popular...now, maybe, they're not seen as totally popular by any mainstream pop music fans but back in 2009 they were, at least in my region...

maybe that's true for you but i can tell you that in the US, at least around me, it was rarely on the radio... if ever. i'm not annoyed by 21 guns at all really. although it is a fairly repetitive song so only hearing it a few times might make you feel that way?? green day can fill stadiums because they obviously still have lots of hardcores fans all around the world, and some people who are casually interested in them enough to buy a ticket. that doesn't mean that they are popular or relevant within mainstream radio pop.

i obviously don't truly know what anyone's opinion of green day was in 2009/2010 when they might have heard them on the radio, but i can only imagine most of it was like "oh, that band that did that 'i walk a lonely road' song 5 years ago has a new song that's not as good... now let me go listen to some lady gaga."

[Guest]

thats a subjective thing to say

Shut your whore mouth

See DookieLukie, that's how you do funny.

[Elena]

i really don't care how "well" it did in the charts or mtv. everyone around me at the time had never heard of them and thought know your enemy was shit. not quite the definition of popular.

it was on TV all the time, in the charts and really damn often on the radio, especially 21 Guns came so often that everyone got annoyed by it, seriously another friend than the one i've already mentioned in my last comment doesn't listen to Green Day at all and is totally into pop music, but she even got annoyed of 21 Guns cos she heard it too often on the radio...the song was OVERPLAYED and that only happens with popular songs....when everyone around you thought that Know Your Enemy was shit that still proves that they knew that song and knew Green Day and when it's on TV and on the radio so often there have to be other people who like it...see, i don't really like 1D and yet i think they're quite popular...and not many people around me like them

[Maddy.]

it was on TV all the time, in the charts and really damn often on the radio, especially 21 Guns came so often that everyone got annoyed by it, seriously another friend than the one i've already mentioned in my last comment doesn't listen to Green Day at all and is totally into pop music, but she even got annoyed of 21 Guns cos she heard it too often on the radio...the song was OVERPLAYED and that only happens with popular songs....when everyone around you thought that Know Your Enemy was shit that still proves that they knew that song and knew Green Day and when it's on TV and on the radio so often there have to be other people who like it...see, i don't really like 1D and yet i think they're quite popular...and not many people around me like them

knowing a band doesn't equate to them being popular??? green day was fading into obsolescence from like 2006 onwards. their popularity peaked arbitrarily little in 09 but nowhere near what it was like in 04/05. the fans remained fans, they gained a few but not a very noteworthy amount.

[Elena]

maybe that's true for you but i can tell you that in the US, at least around me, it was rarely on the radio... if ever. i'm not annoyed by 21 guns at all really. although it is a fairly repetitive song so only hearing it a few times might make you feel that way?? green day can fill stadiums because they obviously still have lots of hardcores fans all around the world, and some people who are casually interested in them enough to buy a ticket. that doesn't mean that they are popular or relevant within mainstream radio pop.

i obviously don't truly know what anyone's opinion of green day was in 2009/2010 when they might have heard them on the radio, but i can only imagine most of it was like "oh, that band that did that 'i walk a lonely road' song 5 years ago has a new song that's not as good... now let me go listen to some lady gaga."

naw believe me, i still love the song in some way, it's a great song with great lyrics but i'd never go on youtube and listen to that song because it got overplayed...i don't get annoyed by songs when i just hear them a few times and the song is still on the radio from time to time but in 2009/2010 it was really almost everything you could ever hear on the radio...it was like any lad gaga song, really and it's really not just me saying that, a lot of people around me say that, not just my friends that i've annoyed with the subject i came to this forum in 2011 and i remember how nearly everyone said they're annoyed by 21 Guns and can't hear it anymore cos it got overplayed, not just german fans btw...

...but at the beginning before everyone got so annoyed it was damn popular, there was a little hype around it...maybe not in the US, but in germany

about the concerts you might be true but then again...how did these fans become hardcore fans? i for my part got a fan at the time 21st Century Breakdown got released and when i went to festivals (no matter whether it's a 3 days festival or just one day where people really come because of Green Day) and i looked around and saw how most people don't know the lyrics i can't really say they're hardcore fans...that was in the trilogy era, though, so yeah... and people who are casually interested in them to buy a ticket could also be mainstream music fans...

[Vespertine]

knowing a band doesn't equate to them being popular??? green day was fading into obsolescence from like 2006 onwards. their popularity peaked arbitrarily little in 09 but nowhere near what it was like in 04/05. the fans remained fans, they gained a few but not a very noteworthy amount.

I don't think "the fans remained fans." Their fan base has shrunk dramatically imo.

[fukingcounterstrike]

Time to merge it

http://www.greendaycommunity.org/topic/96167-blasphemy-and-genocide-unpopular-green-day-opinions-part-2/

chopchop licketysplit now mods

[Maddy.]

I don't think "the fans remained fans." Their fan base has shrunk dramatically imo.

yeah because they've been increasingly shit. the core is still there though i mean look at this fuckin forum.

[Elena]

knowing a band doesn't equate to them being popular??? green day was fading into obsolescence from like 2006 onwards. their popularity peaked arbitrarily little in 09 but nowhere near what it was like in 04/05. the fans remained fans, they gained a few but not a very noteworthy amount.

maybe they weren't as popular in 2009 as they were in 2004 but that doesn't mean they weren't popular at all...i never said they got more popular or anything, i just said that they were popular...

[Maddy.]

maybe they weren't as popular in 2009 as they were in 2004 but that doesn't mean they weren't popular at all...i never said they got more popular or anything, i just said that they were popular...

whatever man. their popularity was negligible compared to the mainstream pop which is what i was getting at in the first place.

[Elena]

whatever man. their popularity was negligible compared to the mainstream pop which is what i was getting at in the first place.

yeah and imo it wasn't, though well, rock music is probably always less popular than pop, but 21 Guns really was one of the most popular songs of the year then...the album...no idea...but of which (mainstream) artist do ya know more than one song? idk...i've seen them as damn popular, might depend on where you live on how you view that

[Vespertine]

well, regardless of how popular they are, they still make mindless, catchy, simple and accessible music.

i think uno, dos and tre are some of the most generic pop albums of 2012/2013.

[Maddy.]

lol

yeah and imo it wasn't, though well, rock music is probably always less popular than pop, but 21 Guns really was one of the most popular songs of the year then...the album...no idea...but of which (mainstream) artist do ya know more than one song? idk...i've seen them as damn popular, might depend on where you live on how you view that

and lol

my research concludes 21 guns was #78 on the billboard top 100 of 2009 chart. right above soulja boy's turn my swag on. but still two below taylor swift's white horse.