It’s super nerdy, but that’s what I love about writing. For me, that’s like the greatest song I’ve ever done. The song’s got the intro, and it’s got a pre-chorus that goes into the chorus, and I decided to not do that pre-chorus going into the chorus in the second verse. A song like “Revolution Radio,” it’s so subtle and it’s so nerdy. The fact that I’m clearheaded - I just love making stuff. Sometimes I just gotta know when to back off something. Either you go and make the bigger mess right now, or that song doesn’t want to be written right now, your brain’s not ready for it. I’ve just become more focused I’ve learned to stop when I’m blocked. Has your songwriting process changed in sobriety? The best way I’m able to talk about it is when I do it in a song, and that’s sort of my release, and that’s what ends up coming along in our crowds these last few years. When you grow up in an era of social media and manifestoes and mass shootings and narcissism and that sort of evil side of American life, what do you say about something like that? You’re just left speechless.
It’s a release for everyone that’s singing it in the crowd. You touch on difficult topics on the album – “ Bang Bang ” is a song from the perspective of a mass shooter. It’s just reflecting what I see, and maybe coming up with a caricature of it. “Say Goodbye” is about watching how Ferguson is this military state, and you see all these tanks and tear gas. The song “ Ordinary World” is basically what that’s about. And the bottom line for this album is to find something that’s attainable, some kind of peace or serenity inside that chaos. Green Day records in general are about feeling kind of lost, and a bit stupid, in the midst of chaos and media and everything that’s changed. If there’s anything I share with them, it’s the joy and the love of music. Joey’s band, they’re really good, and they’re different. He writes songs that are straight from the heart. My youngest son, Jakob, he’s becoming a really good songwriter. Mostly they show me music that they’re into, they do a lot of demos and things like that on their own. I was a very young dad.Īnd your sons are both musicians. I think there’s more sensitivity training that’s involved in being a parent nowadays. It’s a different take on parenting, especially people that were maybe Generation X kind of people and are raising kids now. We’re seeing more and more of that nontraditional father onscreen.
#Billie joe armstrong ordinary world movie#
A couple of the guys that played dads in the movie came in, and we just acted out some of the scenes, which is super awkward at first, doing something you’ve never done, but eventually I got comfortable with it. Everybody wanted to make things really relaxed and fun. They’re brilliant people they’re not like half-good at what they do, they’re all the way good at what they do. It felt pretty intimidating, just because I have so much respect for those people.
This is all about the subtleties of acting to the camera, which is difficult for me, because I’m anything but subtle. Acting for the stage, you project to the back of the room, especially a character like St. I just went from experiences on my own, and I just tried to be as honest as I could. Me and Lee Kirk, the director, we spent a lot of time together fleshing the character out, putting it more in my language. Not like anything weird - I wasn’t exactly doing any, like, mime. Did you do any actorly things to prepare? I’m in the same high school rock ’n’ roll band I’ve been in since I was 16.” Here are edited excerpts from the conversation. He credits the ambition of “Idiot” with the new heights of success in his career.
Jimmy, the drug-pushing bad influence, in HBO’s “American Idiot,” a rock opera based on the 2004 Green Day album. “Ooh, that was good - pop-culture graveyard! I’m going to say that so many times in the next few days.” “It’s like that feeling of what’s obsolete,” he said, “like we’re turning into a pop-culture graveyard.” He paused. The cover for “Revolution Radio” is a boombox on fire. Armstrong - who went through rehab for substance abuse in 2012 after an onstage outburst at a pop festival - is grappling with his shifting generation.
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