Forgot how close these came out to each other. Three Green Day albums in four months should be a good thing. ¡Uno! - 9/21/12 ¡Dos! - 11/9/12 ¡Tré! - 12/7/12
Pretty sure the only song I revisit from the trilogy is Nightlife. And that is literally only because I’ll play it as a joke because that is the worst song this band will ever write.
Calling all the demons, this is the season Next stop is therapy We're the retarded and the brokenhearted The season of misery Here's to the wasted I can almost taste it The rejects and waste of times Gonna take it further Get away with murder And no one here is getting out alive I mean ... what the fuck is this? Did Billie just forget how to write songs?
I feel like the lyrics on the trilogy are on par with everything he’s written since and that’s not a bad thing, there are a lot of lyrics I love on the trilog
JAR When I Come Around Letterbomb Redundant Jesus Of Suburbia Burnout Westbound Sign Whatsername Prosthetic Head Nice Guys Finish Last Macy’s Day Parade Going to Pasalacqua Geek Stink Breath She Probably my favorites, no specific order
Ehh, I don't quite get how they're so like horrifically, the most awful shit ever level of bad like Jason feels, but I definitely think they're some of the worst lyrics of their career. Billie's writing is always clunky though. Like these hella stupid lyrics from Rev Rad: Looking for a cause Well all I got was Santa Claus I'm hanging on a dream that's too dumb to die I feel like a cello Lost somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, too scared to dream But too dumb to die Looking for a cause Well all I got was camouflage I'm hanging on a dream that's too dumb to die I feel like a cello Lost somewhere over the rainbow Way up high, too scared to dream But too dumb to
I feel like even when his lyrics don’t quite work on paper they almost always make sense in the context of the song
Katy Perry: Do you ever feel like a plastic bag? Me, an intellectual: I feel like a cello (edited out of shame)
OK, but this is why things like objectivity and truth matter. Because we can actually look at the words and see it's not true.
I also just straight up don’t believe art can be looked at objectively. We’ve had this exact discussion before, probably about the trilogy haha
This is simple: A random passage from Herman Melville is undeniably better than pulling something from a third grader's notebook. We know this to be true. We can observe this objective fact. Pretending that there's zero objectivity in aesthetic judgment is to pretend a child is as good a writer as David Foster Wallace. They're not.
To be fair, I made a similar argument when the girl I liked in high school told me the poem I wrote about her sucked.
I read somewhere that Billie Joe said that the whole cello thing was because he thinks cellos are the saddest sounding instrument in his opinion. So I feel like that lyric is supposed to be just feeling down/out of place when you are far from home