It has been fairly the week for Green Day. The band kicked off the 12 months with an look on Dick Clark’s New 12 months’s Rockin Eve, the place singer Billie Joe Armstrong angered MAGA supporters by altering a line in “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda.” Naturally, that received people up in arms and was a speaking level on cable information.
This morning (Jan. 5), the band shared the fourth single from their upcoming album, Saviors. Titled “One Eyed Bastard,” the monitor veers away from the pop-punk sound prevalent on Saviors’ first three singles and as a substitute leans into laborious rock.
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“’One Eyed Bastard’ began off as only a riff that I had — a shuffle, virtually like a Black Sabbath type of riff. Lyrically, I used to be simply reflecting on unhealthy instances in life,” Armstrong says. “That’s the factor about nostalgia, typically you assume, ‘That was an terrible time.’ All people’s received that ugly place of their life the place they should cope with ugly ideas — it could possibly be like revenge or no matter. Fortunately, I’ve an outlet in songwriting.”
Saviors is Green Day’s first album since 2020s’ Father of All… and is out on Jan. 19. Later this 12 months, the band will probably be hitting the highway for a stadium tour in assist of the album and to honor the thirtieth and twentieth anniversaries of Dookie and American Fool, respectively. Opening acts embody the Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and the Linda Lindas in North America and Nothing However Thieves, the Hives, Donots, the Interrupters and Maid of Ace in Europe.
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