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Then what's the difference between liking Green Day's music and the right-wing's reactions to Madonna, Bruce, etc.?
Punk rock fans generally are rebelling against the establishment. Such an album resonated with punk rock fans and people who already hated Bush. Dixie Chicks are country music and their fans tend to be more loving of God and Country.
And if you want shocking, try Alice Cooper's "I Love The Dead". It's a nice loving poem.
I love the dead before they're cold
their bluing flesh for me to hold
cadaver eyes upon me see
nothing
I love the dead before they rise
no farewell no good-byes
I never even knew you're now rotting faces
I have ever so many uses for you darling
When I pay to go see an artist perform, I pay to hear their music. What I DON'T pay for is to hear their personal political views spewed to the crowd.
Yep!
Last artist I saw in concert was Billy Joel. Only appeal he made to the masses was apologizing and explaining that this particular concert was NOT the "last play at Shea" as it was supposed to be.
I agree with the comments: just like that one lady in New York in 1972 wondered how Nixon won the election when "nobody I know voted for him", a lot of people in Middle America simply never heard of Green Day or never heard the album, or didn't understand the lyrics.
As for myself: I love Green Day, loved the album, loved the political sentiments on the album, but most of the songs were personal, not political; the theme was alienation. It was the Quadrophenia or the Wall of my age group (29 in 2004) and down from there, to about mid-teens, and among us it was a hit.
There were certainly scattered attacks on Bush and the Iraq war, mostly pretty oblique.
I was indeed disappointed in not seeing more scowls of outrage from the right after they performed the title song at the Grammys, but I can't have everything.
You may not be hearing too many objections because some of American Idiot's lyrics seem to be disparaging liberals' Obama hysteria and what has turned out to be the Obama scam...
"Don't want to be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media And can you hear the sound of hysteria? The subliminal mind f**k America."
That describes nearly perfectly the MSM's gushing, slobbering love affair with Obama.
"Welcome to a new kind of tension. All across the alien nation. Where everything isn't meant to be okay. Television dreams of tomorrow. We're not the ones who're meant to follow. For that's enough to argue."
Those lyrics describe many who are dissatisfied with Obama's poor leadership and blatant corruption (closed-door deals with the unions, etc.).
Green Day hit the Obama scam squarely on the head without even realizing it.
I agree with the comments: just like that one lady in New York in 1972 wondered how Nixon won the election when "nobody I know voted for him", a lot of people in Middle America simply never heard of Green Day or never heard the album, or didn't understand the lyrics.
As for myself: I love Green Day, loved the album, loved the political sentiments on the album, but most of the songs were personal, not political; the theme was alienation. It was the Quadrophenia or the Wall of my age group (29 in 2004) and down from there, to about mid-teens, and among us it was a hit.
There were certainly scattered attacks on Bush and the Iraq war, mostly pretty oblique.
I was indeed disappointed in not seeing more scowls of outrage from the right after they performed the title song at the Grammys, but I can't have everything.
That does not stop them from hating hip-hop and hip-hop artist.
Doesn't anyone beside me listen to music simply because it sounds good?
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