Green day are a punk rock band that have been around since 1987, The band consists of lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong, bassist and backing vocalist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tré Cool. Green Day only started to become a big band in their break through year of 1994 with their album Dookie, then 9 years later they produced american idiot, which sold 7 million copies in the first week world wide. Green Day have biult up a punk rock reputation through out their career by the music they play (lyrically and instrumentally), clothes they wear and by their videos (the people who star in it and the actions that occur in the videos). A good example of how Green Day are represented is by the video to jesus of suburbia as the video is about drinking and drug use by people who are from a punk background, you can tell this as they are wearing leather jackets and have shaved heads or spiky and individual styles of hair with ripped clothing like they don't care what they wear, this is what green day dress like. Also the punks in the video look like they are wanting to rebel against things which is another thing green day represents through their music in certain songs like American idiot or holiday which is about how the government use propaganda and how things are done. But as Green Day are getting at a ripe age as a band they have calmed down their style of music and produced some softer style of rock instead of their energetic music they started off with.
Sam Lyon
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