American Idiot

My analysis of this song would be that far from Green Day attempting to 'sell out', they do in fact - ludicrously, i know - believe that they have made a serious political point.

Green Day are not so much the producers of sound bite politics designed for the consumption of chic in-the-know Bush-bashing teens (complete with anti-war protest banners, and Bush=Hitler bumper stickers) though they are that, as the product. They honestly believe, on the authority of that great American social commentator Michael Moore no less, that Bush is stupid (you know, American IDIOT, who d'ya think we mean, Alice Cooper?), that Karl Rove controls the world from his evil island base of evilness, that Dick Cheney will only be restrained from his daily SHOTGUN KILLING RAMPAGE when George Bush hear's voices in his head from God telling him that now is the time to confiscate the guns from those crazy trigger-happy AmeriKKKans, that Republican's are brainwashed by Fox News into blowing up the countries of dark-skinned Arabs, leaving scorched earth where the desert used to be (well, y,know), that watching the media (which is like sooo biased towards the right wing) will make Americans want to kill ethnic minorities where they sleep, shoot homosexuals, and laugh while women, old people and babies are swept away by floods caused by deliberately badly constructed levies built by pharmaceutical companies staffed by fundamentalist, redneck, far-right, Christian, fat people carrying handguns that Karl Rove has trained up (and, of course, brainwashed) on his imperialist colonial Pacific Island base of hanging chad conspiracies, racist propaganda, illegal nuclear warfare, and evil.