As the pre-eminent power-pop-punk trio watch their latest album , 21st Century Breakdown, top the Billboard album chart, it's revealed that they did it without the help of the biggest chain-store in the known universe. Wal-Mart reportedly wanted Green Day to clean up some language and content on the now #1 album before they would put it on their shelves. In the good old spirit of punk-rock, the Berkeley, CA band gave a symbolic middle finger to corporate bully tactics by refusing to clean up the album's language and content. And who needs Wal-Mart anyway? Green Day sold about 215,000 copies of 21st Century Breakdown since its release last Friday.
On a very related note, 21st Century Breakdown is an excellent album from start to finish. Loaded with punk-rock blasts, anthemic shout-alongs, and songs that get stuck in your head for days, Green Day prove once again that it's possible to produce artistic statements accessible to all walks of life. They also have consciously decided to neither burn our or fade away, instead producing some of the best work of their career almost twenty years into it.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
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