Sekilas tentang lagu American Idiot.
Artikel ini berisi tentang album karya
Green Day. Untuk lagu Green Day dengan judul sama.
American
Idiot adalah album studio ketujuh dari band
Green Day. Album ini
dirilis pada 21 September 2004 melalui label Reprise Records dan
diproduseri oleh Rob Cavallo. Album ini mulai direkam di Studio 880,
Oakland, California, dan diselesaikan di Los Angeles. American Idiot
sendiri adalah sebuah album konsep dimana album ini bercerita seputar
kisah "Jesus of Suburbia", seorang tokoh fiksi anti-hero yang dibuat
oleh
Billie Joe Armstrong.
American Idiot terbilang
sukses di seluruh dunia, berhasil memasuki chart di 26 negara berbeda
dan mencapai posisi nomor satu di 19 negara, termasuk Amerika Serikat
dan Inggris. Album ini terjual sebanyak
267,000 copy pada minggu
pertama, dan sejak dirilis telah terjual lebih dari 6 juta copy di
Amerika Serikat dengan total lebih dari 14 juta copy di seluruh dunia.
American Idiot adalah lagu favorite ku dari
Green Day.
Lyrics:
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 fuck America.
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.
Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.
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.
Don't want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It's calling out to idiot America.
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......
Billie Joe Armstrong (Green Day)
