I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies.
Green Day has been around for awhile and while Dookie may be the album that brough them into the zeitgeist, American Idiot is the absolute peak of their career arc. Published in the aftermath of 9/11 and the middle eastern wars that resulted American Idiot was Green Days attempt at a punk rock opera to capture the feelings of what they believed America had become, a pipeline to build a Walmart on every street corner of the world.
"Holiday / Boulevard of Broken Dreams" are the two songs at the heart of this story. "Holiday" is about how the American dream has failed the youth and "Boulevard" is about how the youth has failed each other. Green Day later turned American Idiot into a stage musical, with songs of this quality it probally wasn't hard.
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