Some additional thoughts/corrections: 1) This was a difficult one to work on sensitively. Especially the intro: It involves talking about a lot of pretty horrific things that don't really fit well with whimsical cartoons. I tried to be as respectful as possible, including simply leaving my hand off for a couple specific moments to avoid looking like I was trying to make light of them, but I apologize if my efforts on that were insufficient. 2) I realized while editing that, during the discussion of the intro riff, drawing a drummer elephant when I say "the rest of the band comes in" implies that I'm talking about Cool's entrance, but I'm actually talking about Dirnt's, along with the rhythm guitar part. Cool came in four bars earlier. My bad if that was confusing. 3) The alternating C chord in the verse is also important because without it, he couldn't have done that full bar on C in the melody without clashing with the underlying harmony. 4) Interestingly, that thing I talked about where the melody avoids the beginning of the chorus seems to be a Green Day thing, or at least a thing on this album, because he also does it on American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Not on Wake Me Up When September Ends, though. Read whatever you want into that. 5) There's a really cool moment that I didn't have space to get into in the transition into the final chorus, where the filtered radio-voice screaming of the chorus is overlaid with Armstrong's normal singing voice, and the timbral juxtaposition of the two sounds incredible. 6) Here's all the donation links to those organizations I mentioned: National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.org/donate/ National Bail Fund Network: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory Food Not Bombs: foodnotbombs.net/new_site/donate.php National Immigration Project: secure.nipnlg.org/forms/donate
Great video! Big fan of the song and your take on it. For anyone too young to remember the era, some important context - Green Day was one of the only mainstream-popular bands that were vocally, openly queer in an era when schoolkids treated being gay as the worst insult imaginable and sodomy laws were still on the books in many states. along those lines, re: 23:48 there's nothing pointless about the use of slurs here, it's specifically referencing how Billie Joe Armstrong referred to himself in interviews well before this album's release. It's specifically an attack at the widespread homophobia of the era and especially the actions of the Bush administration's and many of its supporters to try to maintain that status quo. That section is specifically and directly calling out the government's aggression towards a wide variety of targets. The section would lose a lot with different language - there is nothing pointless in its use.
I love your theory videos, but I was NOT expecting to be as emotionally moved as I feel right now. What we did as a nation was horrific, and it's easy to forget that in the face of what might be coming. I love Billie Joe's approach to songwriting, and I appreciate your insights as to why it seems to feel so effective to me. It all makes sense when you explain it. Before it was more like, he just knows how to string chords together with a good melody. But it's inextricable from the social context - what the song is about. Thanks so much!
6 minutes in and I've realized I need this entire album broken down by 12Tone yesterday. This was such a pivotal album for so many teenagers and young adults of the time, and I love hearing the details you point out! This album led me to a musical discovery of the band's catalog and 20 years later, they are still my favorite band. That's a credit to their musical and lyrical talents.
Bro it was a pivotal album for me as a 2 year old. It was the first album I ever owned and did a lot to shape me. I'm so glad he did Holiday cuz it was my childhood favorite.
best part is that theyre still relevant today, im 16 yrs old almost 17 and GD has been absolutely eye opening for me, definitley part of who i am and how i view the world + politics!!!! Def my fav band, was gutted i couldn't get tickets this year.
@@QueenFondue I'd love to see his explanations in a similar manner to this video, where he compares different songs on the album and explains why certain musical choices were likely made :)
@wolfraptorrox3605 Lyrically the band has always created relatable songs from their very first album. I'm glad you discovered them and one day, you'll see them live. Believe me, they are AMAZING live. It will be memorable for sure \m/
"Fighting back means paying attention" God damn that's good. I needed to hear that. I've been looking away a lot recently, using my own mental health as an excuse. It's time to start paying attention again.
But please only pay as much attention as your mind can handle, the human brain isn't designed for a constant onslaught of terrible news. It's a balance that I've struggled with.
@@mitchsmith9209good news, genz is already really into punk. Hell the Linda Linda's (one of green days openers for the saviors tour) are all younger than me. And I was born after 9/11.
Sidenote: when I saw these guys live for their American Idiot/Dookie anniversary tour (in SF) the person sitting next to me got up and left when they changed the “not part of the redneck agenda” line in American Idiot to “not part of the conservative agenda”. Like idk what these people were expecting, wtf did they think the album was about…
Legit, I remember when they did they New Years show and they did the same thing (however it was MAGA agenda rather than Redneck, which they've been saying for 10+ years at this point), and all these people were acting all suprised about it. Like did all these people getting mad about it ever listen to the themes of the album and pay attention to it, doesn't seem like it to me. I think my theory is that alot of people didn't realise that the music was calling out all these things that they were apart of, the message has always been the same but because they're paying more attention to things now. Due to various things, including the whole ramping up of media personalitites that feed them information searching for things that (even though they always have been) are crititcal of the things they belive in, more instances of this are happening.
I think tthere's also a bit of classism to it (surprise, surprise), bc "redneck" tends to be an insult to Southern, working-class white people. When the lyric was rednecks, conservatives could distance themselves from "those idiots", but being called out on it by name kinda shatters the class distinction there and keeps them from leaning on another scapegoat.
@@robertscott7812Rednecks, ironically, used to be socialists, until the upper class pointed at minorities - especially black people - and told them "they're trying to steal your stuff".
People, regardless of their voting preferences just liked green day and didn't think about the lyrics or about their criticisms of Bush. Easily what they sing about in American Idiot-Holiday applies to Trump as well and there's a special unjustified idolization/worship of Trump that no other American president ever had so now those same Republicans who didn't mind American Idiot before are absolutely offended now because of MAGA's control of people's lives/minds.
I think people forget just how brave it was for Green Day to gamble their career on such a bold message and album type in that environment. Whatever the quality of their later work, I will always have huge respect for them for doing this. Also. The Tesla logo is pure gold.
Something I keep telling myself, when I'm going to sleep, or just struggling in general (mental health is a hard war), is that you don't fight a battle because you can win, you fight because you have to. Life is a battle against death, and you're guaranteed to lose, but that's not the point. The point is to do as much as possible before you do. Seeing old protest songs like this (and I've seen ones from the 40s), is sad, but we are making progress. It's slow, and painful, and we have to fight to even keep what we have, but if we give up, then we really have lost, and that isn't an option.
Interesting words. Protest songs will always be around in one form or another I believe as long as humans still occupy this planet or the next among the stars in 1,000 years or whatever. The fight whether mentally, physically or spiritually as you say will still continue.
Please do more protest songs in the near future. Sometimes the little bit you can do is take actions to inspire others. Exploring how people have done this musically in the past could help inspire a new wave and/or help your followers better understand what is happening with the new wave.
Something I don't think gets mentioned enough is how badass the slide up from the Db to the high Ab chord is in the intro. Really sets you up for some madness.
I love how rotating a fairly simple loop by one chord can completely change the feeling of it! The loop (at least the version with the C chord) alternates movements by thirds with movements by fifths, which is a really regular sound, and yet when the stronger movements line up with the weak beats it becomes thoroughly disorienting (obviously it helps that at that point in the song you've got used to the unrotated version).
Man, I was a recent graduate during the Bush years and, yeah, you get it. I'm pretty sure it rewrote my brain chemistry. Thanks for really breaking it down
I like that at 3:49 you used a pig from the animated version of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" for "not all are created equal..." Great choice! :) We are living in a world that Orwell foretold was coming.
Omg YES! Green Day is one of my all time favorite bands, and Holiday is the song that made me discover them back when I was like 9 (I'm 19 today for reference) So happy to see you cover it
I couldn't help geeking out over the little andalite doodle at 13:30 for "changes shape," that's a nice touch. Amazing song from an amazing band, wish it wasn't somehow even more relevant 20 years later.
One of the worst things about being 50-something is seeing how dystopian books and protest songs really never become less relevant. The characters may change, but the fact that some people are willing to scorch the entire earth to obtain money or power... that never changes.
Oh, distracted by an art question: For "clearly different" is that Chicken Boo? Also, thanks for the little shout-out to us transeses. People can also support the Human Rights Campaign in addition to your wonderful suggestions.
I was just a kid at the time, so i forgot just HOW BAD the Bush years were...Really frustrated we didn't learn from our mistakes in 20 years... To say something about the actual song, a lot of the embelishments to the marching beat of this song are directly borrowed from actual military marching drummers, with the most obvious being the triplets on the toms in the intro. It's not just emblematic thereof, it's the same as.
@@jr2904 An endorsement is not the equivalent of having similar opinions to someone. Trump is very obviously of a similar political leaning as Bush, although Trump is certainly more open about being much more far right. Don't pretend not to know exactly why people compare 2004's presidency to 2016's.
@@jr2904An endorsement by Cheney _of a Democrat over her Republican opponent_ should indicate just how bad the Republican is, honestly. But hey, we tried to warn you. 43 days.
I was so glad to see the trans symbol when you were talking about marginalized and oppressed groups of people at 16:22. Thanks for seeing us! We appreciate you!!
Also: as he also points out, most of us see you and wish you all the best. Yet somehow rallying against certain groups is still electorally favourable. Go figure...
@@keithmyerscough697yeah, it gets votes and people, as in the video, even if they don’t hate minorities they don’t care enough about anyone else to NOT harm them
@@keithmyerscough697Sadly it's because those rallying against these marginalized and oppressed communities like the Trans community are a lot louder and more on the forefront then those rallying for these groups and because of this, sadly these communities will stay like this until something changes like the group rallying for these groups get louder or something massive happens that draws those distracted by the people rallying against these communities attention Here is hoping those rallying for these communities get so loud that good change happens
There's a motif you bring up multiple times that is incredibly relevant for this song: things that seem new, but aren't. It's relevant here because of how history tends to rhyme, and historical events as they are happening seem to be new, but really aren't. Instead, they are old patterns that are just repeating in ways that appear to be new, both because the people living through them haven't lived long enough to have seen them before, but also because the flavor of each decade makes each pattern look a little bit different than it did the last time it appeared. Another interesting song you might look at on the subject of fighting authority is Peter, Paul and Mary's song The Great Mandela, though that is told from the point of view of the oppressive machine, and of the failure of the person fighting the system. That makes that song more powerful to me because there is no catharsis of victory, and after the person fighting fails, there is no concern for them, because the machine does not care about people.
He elevated music theory into fundamental truths about the human condition, with ramifications to not just politics but human decency and the human condition. What a fantastic video!
"The representative from California has the floor" is also a very important line to me. I like to believe this is not just a throwaway line because Armstrong's from Cali, but that not even the most anti-war states are immune to the fear-mongering and misrepresentation that politicians, OF ANY PARTY, were AND ARE guilty of.
@beecat4183 That and an American politician calling the French "cheese-eating surrender monkies" (as well as other verbal pulvarisings) for not being as keen as marching into Iraq as America was (spoiler: they were still part of the NATO campaign, just clearly not as gung-ho about it for the US government's liking...).
@@NorthstarRocker There was no NATO campaign in the Iraq War. There were several NATO members that joined the US, but NATO as an organization was not involved, aside from protecting their own bases in Turkey. And France was not part of it at all. They weren't even a member of NATO during most of the war, only rejoining in 2009 after more than 40 years out of the organization. And they weren't just 'not as keen/gung ho', along with Germany they were consistently, highly critical of the whole thing.
@@Jacob_JungeFrance never left NATO they left the unified command structure because they didn’t want French troops being sent to die because some NATO (usually American) general told them to I remember reading something about “French troops will fight under French generals” thing
@@jameson1239 Fine, they didn't leave, they just severely downgraded their membership. The point is that even if there had been a NATO mission in the Iraq War, France would likely not have been part of it. And since there wasn't, they definitely weren't.
NOFX should have been mentioned in the list of anti-war/anti-Bush songs/albums. War on Errorism gave a more on-the-nose punk take. American Idiot is the better album, but NOFX provides a valuable catharsis.
I hope to God I'm just too old to be cool, and kids today really do have some anthem preaching truth in the world and to fight the good fight. Music like this was what got me through the dark I fear we're all about to face again.
"Palimpsest" by Protest the Hero is an album from 2020 in response to the "make America great again" sentiment. It's prog metal, but every song is such a great glimpse at American history and how various events are spun.
Hey, I appreciate this a lot. I love Holiday, learned a bunch (as usual) AND i'm definitely angry (scared) about unspecified events. Reassuring to be reminded that we're never in the rough days alone, in the past or the future
Use that fear and anger to push yourself to fight for change, Fear and Anger are great motivators but don't let them blind you into doing something stupid such as something violent Here's for positive change
I can't tell you how much I needed this video, man. I've been thinking about this album a lot. There's a lot of people experiencing fright right now that weren't born or old enough at the time to remember the social atmosphere shift of 2001-2004. This is why older (😭) music should keep being reviewed and analyzed.
Ironic a bit that you dropped this on the day my son and I both had a day off and he came over for some guitar lessons and this was the song we worked on. Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work.
Thank you for yelling out working locally! In my experience talking political action with people from the USA the local bit is almost always lost. And they never engage. Local politics is the most important politics. If you engage locally you can get that accessibility ramp installed for your cousin. As you'll be there to say it's needed when someone whines about cost. (As a hypothetical example)
Probably my favorite song on the album, maybe my favorite Green Day song period. Didn’t even realize the chord changes in the verse were that complex. Awesome breakdown.
I remember buying this album, ironically, at the PX in Baghdad when it first released. I introduced so many Iraqis to punk with it while out on patrol, and it's always been special to me since.
As a fellow 90s/00s kid, I greatly appreciate this video. The album was my first exposure to punk, and Holiday immediately became my favorite track. Although I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house that was critical of the Bush administration and the war, this song really helped me make sense of the chaos (as did the rest of American Idiot)
This album, and later Green Day in general, defined my adolescence. I'm not from the US so I wasn't that aware of many of their issues, and I didn't understand many references and subtle commentary because I was just starting to learn English. Yet the energy and power of this song and many others in the album really got to me. I know nothing about music theory, so I love watching your videos because, although I don't understand the technical terms, you explain things in a way that help me see the deeper meaning of these songs. You cast a new light on them, and they shine brighter than ever. Thank you so much for what you do, 12tone!! ❤
That awkward moment when you're uncomfortable about the use of the 🚬 word in the politician section... And then you remember that a certain US politician's just giddy to use the 📻 word now that she's found it useful to hate the trans community. History fucking rhymes too often
"But he got lost so he's starting over" with Luffy is so funny, I love it. Also, thanks for this, it's really important. As a trans person in the US it kinda sucks bad rn, but we gotta keep going!
I’m making an American Idiot fan film (trailer is on my channel), and I’m very happy with your interpretation of this iconic song, as we seem to have the same takeaways as to what makes this song so powerful. When writing the script, we knew we had to give Holiday that political anger and the banding together of people to fight against the government. Excellent analysis!
I live in Canada. Around that time I bought some merch from one if the biggest Christian ska bands that were definitely "punk" in attitude, Five Iron Frenzy. (Technically it was their follow up project, Brave Saint Saturn, which is a really interesting take on hopelessness.) Anyway, when the package finally arrived, it included a note from the lead singer, written with a marker on a small scrap of paper: SORRY IT'S LATE AND THAT OUR PRESIDENT SUCKS. - REESE
Thank you for your exhortations, as someone who's lately been struggling with depression (though mostly non-political in nature) there is some very real power in just doing something. It gets you, in whatever small way, out of your head and into the world and that alone is huge. Thank you for consistently providing entertaining, informative, and often provocative content, you've made me think twice about a lot of songs I thought I knew.
Fantastic video. Though I can't understand a lot, or really any, of the music theory elements, the technical explanation really helps understand how the lyrics and the message were musically conveyed.
The fact that this song is followed by "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", tied together so smoothly that it is purposefully played together, really adds a layer of depression now that I see this breakdown. Rise to fight, only to find this is a road walked alone.
Great video as always, and massive respect for highlighting those specific charities and the need to do something in the face of horrific events. I also loved the section about mutual aid with the IWW logo!
I feel one point in particular at the end is important to drive home: Don’t comply in advance. That single factor may be most responsible for the cruelty carried out in the last two centuries. Every time you bend to the rules before they are written, you entice them to write harsher rules. They will not meet you in the middle.
this has immediately stepped up to become my favorite of your analyses. it’s insightful, timely, and absolutely inspirational. of all the songs to choose, this was an excellent one. god i love punk.
Don't forget that Holiday is also a part of the larger story of American Idiot. It's amazing how they wrote a coherent and gripping story through this album while also expressing different themes in each song
American Idiot is the album that so many people claim is the one they sold out on because it had two mega hits in Wake Mr When September ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams... They either don't know or forgot that it was otherwise packed with killer anti-establishmen anthems like Holiday.
Beastie Boys also had a scathing Bush critique in "Time to build" off "To the 5 boroughs" which also came out in 2004 with the album art being the New York skyline with the towers prominently. Also Billie plays the intro riff I believe on just the A and B strings muting the D and G strings as a diad of a tenth, not whole triads, at least that's what it said in my guitar world transcription but there's probably an overdubbed guitar that plays the power chords so together it creates a full triad, which also add string noise and off harmonics given the key of the song
I love hearing these analysis breakdowns of popular songs. It not only highlights the depth and mastery of musical theory these artists employed, it helps me understand the intuitive choices I make when writing my own songs, and really drives home how important an understanding of music theory is. Knowing how to properly use a perfect fifth or a third, would significantly shortcut my searching for where the song is trying to go next, and it's incredible to see how the song is so intentionally laid out on levels I couldn't even comprehend before. I used to think these guys were just incredibly lucky and talented, and that's not wrong, but it's only a small part of the truth. Billy really understood exactly what he wanted to say and do, and moved forward with planned intention in every beat. That's amazing. I love the band even more now. I'm going to go dust off this album when I get home today.
I’ve been such a huge fan of your channel for so many years and I just have to say this might be my favorite video you’ve ever put out!! (And I swear it’s not just because I love everytime you cover anything from American Idiot lol) Aside from how beautifully and eloquently you broke down the context and musical/lyrical nuances … you cut much deeper to the real heart and message than I’ve ever seen before on TH-cam tbh. You helped make a 20 year old song feel as timely as ever. Thank you thank you thank you - not just for this video but for all your years of incredible videos!! ❤
I'd like to see a little more on the whole American Idiot album. As we all know, 'Holiday' directly blends it's way right into 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and in some cases, even digital versions of the 2 songs combined into 1, exist with the obvious intent to retain that perfect blending point.
As a german myself, with everything going on in Europe at the moment I do feel pretty lost and it's honestly pretty scary, war in ukraine, riots in georgia and the rise of the far right in all of Europe... It just feels like we're building back up to war and I'm terrified of that.
Something i realised while listening to this one was the extremely mocking tone of the line "trial by fire, setting the fire", it feels like a "hey we in power are purposefully doing this negative AND YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING HAHAHAH"
Still one of my favorite songs. Thanks for your analysis. It's cool that my daughter & her gen have embraced the music that meant so much to me and my gen. This summer's concert rocked! It was awesome to enjoy it with such a wide age range of fans.
I don't care for Billy and the gang's politics, but I love this album. It's a shame they've never captured this energy or sound in any of their projects since then.
Thank you for being you. I won't talk about what this song means to me on a personal level right now, but thank you for talking about a protest song for what it was at the time, and not sanitizing or self-censoring what should be said. Thank you for saying enough that people should see how it's still (unfortunately) relevant. I beg to dream and differ that some day the hollow lies referred to will no longer work.
Lol, I totally understand and appreciate the lack of consideration in your wording towards the end. Obviously a lot of us know what’s going on in the world some of it dealing with underlying issues. A person trying to relay a message to people. A message that does stand strong today. As he says, yeah, there’s not much one person can do get a bunch similarly minded people, and meet up with them. There’s no reason not to at least if everything goes to shit. lol you’re still friends
I've decided that I really like it when you get mad, and I was entirely unsurprised to find your analysis of Holiday in particular in my feed. I may or may not have had this song on my mind for the past month. I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one. As a Bush years teenager myself, right down to the point where American Idiot was my high school class' album the May after it came out, I can't help but feel like Holiday's persistent relevance feels poignant, as if the march we've been on with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool for the last 20 years hasn't gone anywhere. At the same time, it also feels habitual (especially with that minor axis progression): we've not just been marching for 20 years, no. We've been drilling.
"Get up, stand up. Don't give up the fight" Thank you for making this video. Even though I live in Europe, I still feel the presence of the Dark Lord. It is important not to let it bring you down. I watched this on Nebula, of course. ✌✌
I was ready to say a few things about that time and my experiences, but I read your pinned post. Out of respect, I've opted to just drop this fun fact: Samuel Bayer who directed "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the American Idiot videos including "Wake Me Up When September Ends" later directed commercials for the U.S. Army to recruit more soldiers.
This song, and especally your breakdown of it, really make me want to give in to an old show i wanted to make called "Fu*k it, lets talk politics." Your videos do something ive wanted to do all my life, which is explain music, lyrics, and the history behind them, and you do it in such a wonderful way. I hope one day my content can inspire someone the way you inspire me
Cool video as always. And stay strong US comrards. Greeting from France where we will maybe be in the same sh*t as you in 2 years (well we're already in some of it anyway... ).
Thanks for making this video. I've been watching a long time and it's great to see someone committing to being an ally during the hard times. Great band, good song, and an inspiring video from a solid creator. ❤
There's a mash up of this song that blows my mind - "Holiday" and "Doctorin the TARDIS" (which is itself a mash up from the 80s of Rock and Roll part 2 and Doctor Who theme). You mentioned a siren - which is present in this version. Anyway "Doctor Who on Holiday by Dean Gray from American Edit": th-cam.com/video/PAzzhJeTp-I/w-d-xo.html
16:30 this is still so true. One reason that Green Day’s a timeless artist: their ability to speak on social issues in their music and call out the injustices our politicians commit every single day.
19:17 - enden that frase on a C also lets him have the dominant feeling in the return jump from C (no 3) to Fmi - it’s very short - but it gives you a feeling of “oh we’re not done yet!” - Said feeling of being done is what you get in the next line, as the riff ends in an Eb-C-F.
Some additional thoughts/corrections:
1) This was a difficult one to work on sensitively. Especially the intro: It involves talking about a lot of pretty horrific things that don't really fit well with whimsical cartoons. I tried to be as respectful as possible, including simply leaving my hand off for a couple specific moments to avoid looking like I was trying to make light of them, but I apologize if my efforts on that were insufficient.
2) I realized while editing that, during the discussion of the intro riff, drawing a drummer elephant when I say "the rest of the band comes in" implies that I'm talking about Cool's entrance, but I'm actually talking about Dirnt's, along with the rhythm guitar part. Cool came in four bars earlier. My bad if that was confusing.
3) The alternating C chord in the verse is also important because without it, he couldn't have done that full bar on C in the melody without clashing with the underlying harmony.
4) Interestingly, that thing I talked about where the melody avoids the beginning of the chorus seems to be a Green Day thing, or at least a thing on this album, because he also does it on American Idiot and Boulevard of Broken Dreams. Not on Wake Me Up When September Ends, though. Read whatever you want into that.
5) There's a really cool moment that I didn't have space to get into in the transition into the final chorus, where the filtered radio-voice screaming of the chorus is overlaid with Armstrong's normal singing voice, and the timbral juxtaposition of the two sounds incredible.
6) Here's all the donation links to those organizations I mentioned:
National Network of Abortion Funds: abortionfunds.org/donate/
National Bail Fund Network: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-directory
Food Not Bombs: foodnotbombs.net/new_site/donate.php
National Immigration Project: secure.nipnlg.org/forms/donate
Great video! Big fan of the song and your take on it.
For anyone too young to remember the era, some important context - Green Day was one of the only mainstream-popular bands that were vocally, openly queer in an era when schoolkids treated being gay as the worst insult imaginable and sodomy laws were still on the books in many states.
along those lines, re: 23:48 there's nothing pointless about the use of slurs here, it's specifically referencing how Billie Joe Armstrong referred to himself in interviews well before this album's release. It's specifically an attack at the widespread homophobia of the era and especially the actions of the Bush administration's and many of its supporters to try to maintain that status quo. That section is specifically and directly calling out the government's aggression towards a wide variety of targets. The section would lose a lot with different language - there is nothing pointless in its use.
I love your theory videos, but I was NOT expecting to be as emotionally moved as I feel right now. What we did as a nation was horrific, and it's easy to forget that in the face of what might be coming. I love Billie Joe's approach to songwriting, and I appreciate your insights as to why it seems to feel so effective to me. It all makes sense when you explain it. Before it was more like, he just knows how to string chords together with a good melody. But it's inextricable from the social context - what the song is about. Thanks so much!
Do a Linkin Park song.
Possibly your best video.
@@xavierwalko4175 patron supporters get to suggest and vote on songs covered
Dont think we wont notice using the Tesla badge for "usually doesnt work" outstanding commentary.
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He actually did it twice, 2nd time with the Neuralink logo.
6 minutes in and I've realized I need this entire album broken down by 12Tone yesterday. This was such a pivotal album for so many teenagers and young adults of the time, and I love hearing the details you point out! This album led me to a musical discovery of the band's catalog and 20 years later, they are still my favorite band. That's a credit to their musical and lyrical talents.
I want to see his take on Whatsername. Honestly my favorite song on the album.
Bro it was a pivotal album for me as a 2 year old. It was the first album I ever owned and did a lot to shape me. I'm so glad he did Holiday cuz it was my childhood favorite.
best part is that theyre still relevant today, im 16 yrs old almost 17 and GD has been absolutely eye opening for me, definitley part of who i am and how i view the world + politics!!!! Def my fav band, was gutted i couldn't get tickets this year.
@@QueenFondue I'd love to see his explanations in a similar manner to this video, where he compares different songs on the album and explains why certain musical choices were likely made :)
@wolfraptorrox3605 Lyrically the band has always created relatable songs from their very first album. I'm glad you discovered them and one day, you'll see them live. Believe me, they are AMAZING live. It will be memorable for sure \m/
"Fighting back means paying attention" God damn that's good. I needed to hear that. I've been looking away a lot recently, using my own mental health as an excuse. It's time to start paying attention again.
But please only pay as much attention as your mind can handle, the human brain isn't designed for a constant onslaught of terrible news. It's a balance that I've struggled with.
"George W. Bush" *draws Skeletor*
Skeletor is the symbolic representation of Dick Cheney pulling on Bush’s puppet strings.
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@@CSXIVSkeletor has a lower body count...
A dumb yet still evil villain with a funny voice
Yeah, fits perfectly
“Now watch this drive,” he screams as he waves his Havoc Staff.
"usually doesn't work" and puts a tesla logo im dying 😭😭
What a great video about Green Day and the Bush presidency, I'm sure there are absolutely no other messages that might apply to current politics!
especially people falsely voting for someone coz of prices of groceries over literally anything else
Well, at least now we know how long it takes to go from idea/sketches to full video: almost exactly a month. How do we know that? Don't question it.
Time to get gen Z really into political punk music
@ i mean, punk was always meant to be political, who could have guessed capitalists would start selling anti capitalism for profit
@@mitchsmith9209good news, genz is already really into punk. Hell the Linda Linda's (one of green days openers for the saviors tour) are all younger than me. And I was born after 9/11.
Sidenote: when I saw these guys live for their American Idiot/Dookie anniversary tour (in SF) the person sitting next to me got up and left when they changed the “not part of the redneck agenda” line in American Idiot to “not part of the conservative agenda”. Like idk what these people were expecting, wtf did they think the album was about…
Legit, I remember when they did they New Years show and they did the same thing (however it was MAGA agenda rather than Redneck, which they've been saying for 10+ years at this point), and all these people were acting all suprised about it. Like did all these people getting mad about it ever listen to the themes of the album and pay attention to it, doesn't seem like it to me. I think my theory is that alot of people didn't realise that the music was calling out all these things that they were apart of, the message has always been the same but because they're paying more attention to things now. Due to various things, including the whole ramping up of media personalitites that feed them information searching for things that (even though they always have been) are crititcal of the things they belive in, more instances of this are happening.
I think tthere's also a bit of classism to it (surprise, surprise), bc "redneck" tends to be an insult to Southern, working-class white people. When the lyric was rednecks, conservatives could distance themselves from "those idiots", but being called out on it by name kinda shatters the class distinction there and keeps them from leaning on another scapegoat.
@@robertscott7812Rednecks, ironically, used to be socialists, until the upper class pointed at minorities - especially black people - and told them "they're trying to steal your stuff".
Meanwhile in England people are being put in cages for saying mean things on the Internet. Wonder what agenda Billy can blame that one on 🤔
People, regardless of their voting preferences just liked green day and didn't think about the lyrics or about their criticisms of Bush. Easily what they sing about in American Idiot-Holiday applies to Trump as well and there's a special unjustified idolization/worship of Trump that no other American president ever had so now those same Republicans who didn't mind American Idiot before are absolutely offended now because of MAGA's control of people's lives/minds.
This song choice was... very timely. Especially the info at the end. Thank you.
I think people forget just how brave it was for Green Day to gamble their career on such a bold message and album type in that environment.
Whatever the quality of their later work, I will always have huge respect for them for doing this.
Also. The Tesla logo is pure gold.
Something I keep telling myself, when I'm going to sleep, or just struggling in general (mental health is a hard war), is that you don't fight a battle because you can win, you fight because you have to. Life is a battle against death, and you're guaranteed to lose, but that's not the point. The point is to do as much as possible before you do. Seeing old protest songs like this (and I've seen ones from the 40s), is sad, but we are making progress. It's slow, and painful, and we have to fight to even keep what we have, but if we give up, then we really have lost, and that isn't an option.
Interesting words. Protest songs will always be around in one form or another I believe as long as humans still occupy this planet or the next among the stars in 1,000 years or whatever. The fight whether mentally, physically or spiritually as you say will still continue.
Ahhh, Holiday being in Tony Hawk's American Wasteland was what got me into Green Day as a kid.
A great song for a great game
Hawk tuah
It was the DS game for me!
Fuck I’m old.
Bro, that game was awesome!
Please do more protest songs in the near future. Sometimes the little bit you can do is take actions to inspire others. Exploring how people have done this musically in the past could help inspire a new wave and/or help your followers better understand what is happening with the new wave.
We NEED protest songs right now, maybe reviewing the great ones of the past will provide inspiration
It is so sad that an album written 20 years ago is still relavant today
Go back and re-listen to Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails. It's absurd how much of it still feels current.
@@Jaspertine I know. It's insane.
Sad, but not unexpected, given the nature of Boomers.
A sad repeat of history
It’s a blessing and a curse
Something I don't think gets mentioned enough is how badass the slide up from the Db to the high Ab chord is in the intro. Really sets you up for some madness.
Doodles were extra on-point and dare I say a bit feisty in this one
I love how rotating a fairly simple loop by one chord can completely change the feeling of it! The loop (at least the version with the C chord) alternates movements by thirds with movements by fifths, which is a really regular sound, and yet when the stronger movements line up with the weak beats it becomes thoroughly disorienting (obviously it helps that at that point in the song you've got used to the unrotated version).
Man, I was a recent graduate during the Bush years and, yeah, you get it. I'm pretty sure it rewrote my brain chemistry. Thanks for really breaking it down
I like that at 3:49 you used a pig from the animated version of George Orwell's "Animal Farm" for "not all are created equal..." Great choice! :) We are living in a world that Orwell foretold was coming.
Omg YES!
Green Day is one of my all time favorite bands, and Holiday is the song that made me discover them back when I was like 9 (I'm 19 today for reference)
So happy to see you cover it
I couldn't help geeking out over the little andalite doodle at 13:30 for "changes shape," that's a nice touch. Amazing song from an amazing band, wish it wasn't somehow even more relevant 20 years later.
One of the worst things about being 50-something is seeing how dystopian books and protest songs really never become less relevant. The characters may change, but the fact that some people are willing to scorch the entire earth to obtain money or power... that never changes.
Oh, distracted by an art question: For "clearly different" is that Chicken Boo?
Also, thanks for the little shout-out to us transeses. People can also support the Human Rights Campaign in addition to your wonderful suggestions.
I was just a kid at the time, so i forgot just HOW BAD the Bush years were...Really frustrated we didn't learn from our mistakes in 20 years...
To say something about the actual song, a lot of the embelishments to the marching beat of this song are directly borrowed from actual military marching drummers, with the most obvious being the triplets on the toms in the intro. It's not just emblematic thereof, it's the same as.
We did learn though, we didn't vote for someone who was endorsed by Dick Cheney lol
@@jr2904 An endorsement is not the equivalent of having similar opinions to someone. Trump is very obviously of a similar political leaning as Bush, although Trump is certainly more open about being much more far right. Don't pretend not to know exactly why people compare 2004's presidency to 2016's.
@@jr2904An endorsement by Cheney _of a Democrat over her Republican opponent_ should indicate just how bad the Republican is, honestly. But hey, we tried to warn you. 43 days.
I was so glad to see the trans symbol when you were talking about marginalized and oppressed groups of people at 16:22. Thanks for seeing us! We appreciate you!!
Also: as he also points out, most of us see you and wish you all the best. Yet somehow rallying against certain groups is still electorally favourable. Go figure...
@@keithmyerscough697yeah, it gets votes and people, as in the video, even if they don’t hate minorities they don’t care enough about anyone else to NOT harm them
12tone's agender btw so they definitely know the shit you guys have to put up with on a daily basis
@@keithmyerscough697Sadly it's because those rallying against these marginalized and oppressed communities like the Trans community are a lot louder and more on the forefront then those rallying for these groups and because of this, sadly these communities will stay like this until something changes like the group rallying for these groups get louder or something massive happens that draws those distracted by the people rallying against these communities attention
Here is hoping those rallying for these communities get so loud that good change happens
There's a motif you bring up multiple times that is incredibly relevant for this song: things that seem new, but aren't.
It's relevant here because of how history tends to rhyme, and historical events as they are happening seem to be new, but really aren't.
Instead, they are old patterns that are just repeating in ways that appear to be new, both because the people living through them haven't lived long enough to have seen them before, but also because the flavor of each decade makes each pattern look a little bit different than it did the last time it appeared.
Another interesting song you might look at on the subject of fighting authority is Peter, Paul and Mary's song The Great Mandela, though that is told from the point of view of the oppressive machine, and of the failure of the person fighting the system. That makes that song more powerful to me because there is no catharsis of victory, and after the person fighting fails, there is no concern for them, because the machine does not care about people.
I really appreciate the political references! Tragically timely and relevant.
He elevated music theory into fundamental truths about the human condition, with ramifications to not just politics but human decency and the human condition. What a fantastic video!
This is Twelve Tone at its best. Thank you for existing. You give me hope for the world and remind me why I love music
"The representative from California has the floor" is also a very important line to me. I like to believe this is not just a throwaway line because Armstrong's from Cali, but that not even the most anti-war states are immune to the fear-mongering and misrepresentation that politicians, OF ANY PARTY, were AND ARE guilty of.
(Generally not a fan of Green Day) "Bang bang goes the broken glass" is a reference to Kristallnacht, right?...
Yep and the previous lyric "pulvarize the eifel tower" was also a Hitler reference.
@beecat4183 That and an American politician calling the French "cheese-eating surrender monkies" (as well as other verbal pulvarisings) for not being as keen as marching into Iraq as America was (spoiler: they were still part of the NATO campaign, just clearly not as gung-ho about it for the US government's liking...).
@@NorthstarRocker There was no NATO campaign in the Iraq War. There were several NATO members that joined the US, but NATO as an organization was not involved, aside from protecting their own bases in Turkey.
And France was not part of it at all. They weren't even a member of NATO during most of the war, only rejoining in 2009 after more than 40 years out of the organization.
And they weren't just 'not as keen/gung ho', along with Germany they were consistently, highly critical of the whole thing.
@@Jacob_JungeFrance never left NATO they left the unified command structure because they didn’t want French troops being sent to die because some NATO (usually American) general told them to I remember reading something about “French troops will fight under French generals” thing
@@jameson1239 Fine, they didn't leave, they just severely downgraded their membership. The point is that even if there had been a NATO mission in the Iraq War, France would likely not have been part of it. And since there wasn't, they definitely weren't.
NOFX should have been mentioned in the list of anti-war/anti-Bush songs/albums. War on Errorism gave a more on-the-nose punk take. American Idiot is the better album, but NOFX provides a valuable catharsis.
War on Errorism still holds up. Album is full of bangers.
The Decline.
@ The Decline was released in 1999. By definition, it cannot be an anti-Bush/anti-Iraq War album, despite how prescient it was.
I mean if you're fucking around with protest songs, I'd love to see ya do Hind's Hall. Macklemore was cookin' with that
I hope to God I'm just too old to be cool, and kids today really do have some anthem preaching truth in the world and to fight the good fight. Music like this was what got me through the dark I fear we're all about to face again.
"Palimpsest" by Protest the Hero is an album from 2020 in response to the "make America great again" sentiment. It's prog metal, but every song is such a great glimpse at American history and how various events are spun.
Hey, I appreciate this a lot. I love Holiday, learned a bunch (as usual) AND i'm definitely angry (scared) about unspecified events. Reassuring to be reminded that we're never in the rough days alone, in the past or the future
Use that fear and anger to push yourself to fight for change, Fear and Anger are great motivators but don't let them blind you into doing something stupid such as something violent
Here's for positive change
I see what you did there. :-) One of your best videos ever.
What a fortuitous time for this to be realased.
Great work as usual!
I can't tell you how much I needed this video, man. I've been thinking about this album a lot. There's a lot of people experiencing fright right now that weren't born or old enough at the time to remember the social atmosphere shift of 2001-2004. This is why older (😭) music should keep being reviewed and analyzed.
Ironic a bit that you dropped this on the day my son and I both had a day off and he came over for some guitar lessons and this was the song we worked on. Thanks for the video, and keep up the good work.
Thank you for yelling out working locally!
In my experience talking political action with people from the USA the local bit is almost always lost. And they never engage.
Local politics is the most important politics.
If you engage locally you can get that accessibility ramp installed for your cousin. As you'll be there to say it's needed when someone whines about cost. (As a hypothetical example)
Probably my favorite song on the album, maybe my favorite Green Day song period. Didn’t even realize the chord changes in the verse were that complex. Awesome breakdown.
2024 to 2028: the return of the punk rocker.
Awesome... wait...
yeah when the far right takes control of liberal ideas we at least actually have leftists
@Wrenifferthey did that decades ago
This isn’t what you think it is
Punk rockers and green day have no place together
@@mototoad1242 All my favorite surf punk and whatever came out post 2016 granted I think its just cause thats when all these bands formed lmao
Brilliant analysis. And the motivation at the end is really welcome. Thanks as always for everything you do.
I remember buying this album, ironically, at the PX in Baghdad when it first released. I introduced so many Iraqis to punk with it while out on patrol, and it's always been special to me since.
As a fellow 90s/00s kid, I greatly appreciate this video. The album was my first exposure to punk, and Holiday immediately became my favorite track. Although I was fortunate enough to grow up in a house that was critical of the Bush administration and the war, this song really helped me make sense of the chaos (as did the rest of American Idiot)
This album, and later Green Day in general, defined my adolescence. I'm not from the US so I wasn't that aware of many of their issues, and I didn't understand many references and subtle commentary because I was just starting to learn English. Yet the energy and power of this song and many others in the album really got to me.
I know nothing about music theory, so I love watching your videos because, although I don't understand the technical terms, you explain things in a way that help me see the deeper meaning of these songs. You cast a new light on them, and they shine brighter than ever.
Thank you so much for what you do, 12tone!! ❤
I relistened to this whole album and I was stunned how much I under appreciated this song. It might really be a highlight of the whole experience
That awkward moment when you're uncomfortable about the use of the 🚬 word in the politician section... And then you remember that a certain US politician's just giddy to use the 📻 word now that she's found it useful to hate the trans community.
History fucking rhymes too often
What the fuck is a radio word
"But he got lost so he's starting over" with Luffy is so funny, I love it. Also, thanks for this, it's really important. As a trans person in the US it kinda sucks bad rn, but we gotta keep going!
It's going to get worse before it gets better, but history shows us that - at least on a large scale - it WILL get better.
I’m making an American Idiot fan film (trailer is on my channel), and I’m very happy with your interpretation of this iconic song, as we seem to have the same takeaways as to what makes this song so powerful.
When writing the script, we knew we had to give Holiday that political anger and the banding together of people to fight against the government.
Excellent analysis!
american idiot fan film?? where do i sign up
A little bit can be really little. For our trans and queer friends and siblings, just staying alive is a little thing you can do.
This is my second favorite track from the album, next to Jesus of Suburbia. Love seeing a video on it!
I live in Canada. Around that time I bought some merch from one if the biggest Christian ska bands that were definitely "punk" in attitude, Five Iron Frenzy. (Technically it was their follow up project, Brave Saint Saturn, which is a really interesting take on hopelessness.)
Anyway, when the package finally arrived, it included a note from the lead singer, written with a marker on a small scrap of paper:
SORRY IT'S LATE
AND THAT OUR PRESIDENT SUCKS.
- REESE
For anyone who doesn't know about Christian ska/punk, you're missing out.
Check out the lyrics on FIF's "Zen and the Art of Xenophobia".
Thank you for your exhortations, as someone who's lately been struggling with depression (though mostly non-political in nature) there is some very real power in just doing something. It gets you, in whatever small way, out of your head and into the world and that alone is huge. Thank you for consistently providing entertaining, informative, and often provocative content, you've made me think twice about a lot of songs I thought I knew.
Fantastic video. Though I can't understand a lot, or really any, of the music theory elements, the technical explanation really helps understand how the lyrics and the message were musically conveyed.
The fact that this song is followed by "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", tied together so smoothly that it is purposefully played together, really adds a layer of depression now that I see this breakdown. Rise to fight, only to find this is a road walked alone.
Great video as always, and massive respect for highlighting those specific charities and the need to do something in the face of horrific events. I also loved the section about mutual aid with the IWW logo!
“This song is not Anti-American, it’s Anti-WARRRRRR” top 10 phrases of all time
I feel one point in particular at the end is important to drive home: Don’t comply in advance. That single factor may be most responsible for the cruelty carried out in the last two centuries. Every time you bend to the rules before they are written, you entice them to write harsher rules. They will not meet you in the middle.
this has immediately stepped up to become my favorite of your analyses. it’s insightful, timely, and absolutely inspirational. of all the songs to choose, this was an excellent one. god i love punk.
Don't forget that Holiday is also a part of the larger story of American Idiot. It's amazing how they wrote a coherent and gripping story through this album while also expressing different themes in each song
Been waiting for this one! Very well done. I can appreciate how tough this one might be to dissect. Thank you!
American Idiot is the album that so many people claim is the one they sold out on because it had two mega hits in Wake Mr When September ends and Boulevard of Broken Dreams... They either don't know or forgot that it was otherwise packed with killer anti-establishmen anthems like Holiday.
Beastie Boys also had a scathing Bush critique in "Time to build" off "To the 5 boroughs" which also came out in 2004 with the album art being the New York skyline with the towers prominently.
Also Billie plays the intro riff I believe on just the A and B strings muting the D and G strings as a diad of a tenth, not whole triads, at least that's what it said in my guitar world transcription but there's probably an overdubbed guitar that plays the power chords so together it creates a full triad, which also add string noise and off harmonics given the key of the song
You so punk rock and your timing is spot on.
thank you, this is my favourite track on the album and possibly my favourite greenday song.
I love hearing these analysis breakdowns of popular songs. It not only highlights the depth and mastery of musical theory these artists employed, it helps me understand the intuitive choices I make when writing my own songs, and really drives home how important an understanding of music theory is.
Knowing how to properly use a perfect fifth or a third, would significantly shortcut my searching for where the song is trying to go next, and it's incredible to see how the song is so intentionally laid out on levels I couldn't even comprehend before.
I used to think these guys were just incredibly lucky and talented, and that's not wrong, but it's only a small part of the truth. Billy really understood exactly what he wanted to say and do, and moved forward with planned intention in every beat. That's amazing. I love the band even more now. I'm going to go dust off this album when I get home today.
I’ve been such a huge fan of your channel for so many years and I just have to say this might be my favorite video you’ve ever put out!! (And I swear it’s not just because I love everytime you cover anything from American Idiot lol) Aside from how beautifully and eloquently you broke down the context and musical/lyrical nuances … you cut much deeper to the real heart and message than I’ve ever seen before on TH-cam tbh. You helped make a 20 year old song feel as timely as ever. Thank you thank you thank you - not just for this video but for all your years of incredible videos!! ❤
I'd like to see a little more on the whole American Idiot album. As we all know, 'Holiday' directly blends it's way right into 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams' and in some cases, even digital versions of the 2 songs combined into 1, exist with the obvious intent to retain that perfect blending point.
That “AMEN!!” Live was one of the most electrifying moments when I saw them
As a german myself, with everything going on in Europe at the moment I do feel pretty lost and it's honestly pretty scary, war in ukraine, riots in georgia and the rise of the far right in all of Europe... It just feels like we're building back up to war and I'm terrified of that.
Something i realised while listening to this one was the extremely mocking tone of the line "trial by fire, setting the fire", it feels like a "hey we in power are purposefully doing this negative AND YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING HAHAHAH"
The rhythm of the opening rift feels like the rhythm of skipping, then it drops down into running.
Still one of my favorite songs. Thanks for your analysis. It's cool that my daughter & her gen have embraced the music that meant so much to me and my gen. This summer's concert rocked! It was awesome to enjoy it with such a wide age range of fans.
I think the saying is that “History repeats itself” and we just have to watch it burn
the first Green Day song i heard, and still a favorite. thank you for this
Speaking as an American trans-youth, AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHGGG!! Good vid, thanks for the words of encouragement.
Yeah, this channel is one that's keeping me remembering that "it makes a difference to that one"
I don't care for Billy and the gang's politics, but I love this album. It's a shame they've never captured this energy or sound in any of their projects since then.
This is amazing, truly well done
I realise we are probably far too close to christmas for a video to be made in time but it wld be awesome if we got a "fairytale of New York" video
Thank you for being you. I won't talk about what this song means to me on a personal level right now, but thank you for talking about a protest song for what it was at the time, and not sanitizing or self-censoring what should be said. Thank you for saying enough that people should see how it's still (unfortunately) relevant. I beg to dream and differ that some day the hollow lies referred to will no longer work.
As a post 9/11 veteran, i hate hearing it's about oil.
It was about opiates guarding poppy fields 😂
Lol, I totally understand and appreciate the lack of consideration in your wording towards the end. Obviously a lot of us know what’s going on in the world some of it dealing with underlying issues. A person trying to relay a message to people. A message that does stand strong today.
As he says, yeah, there’s not much one person can do get a bunch similarly minded people, and meet up with them. There’s no reason not to at least if everything goes to shit. lol you’re still friends
sure glad we dont have any of these problems any more! thatd really suck
I've decided that I really like it when you get mad, and I was entirely unsurprised to find your analysis of Holiday in particular in my feed. I may or may not have had this song on my mind for the past month. I'm kinda glad I'm not the only one.
As a Bush years teenager myself, right down to the point where American Idiot was my high school class' album the May after it came out, I can't help but feel like Holiday's persistent relevance feels poignant, as if the march we've been on with Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, and Tré Cool for the last 20 years hasn't gone anywhere. At the same time, it also feels habitual (especially with that minor axis progression): we've not just been marching for 20 years, no. We've been drilling.
Insightful as always, Corey. Good job on that outro too. Keep up the good fight!
The Emporers New Groove llama had no business showing up in 2024 I love it
absolutely LOVE THIS SONG TY!! it was one of my childhood band's first covers, hilariously
"Get up, stand up. Don't give up the fight"
Thank you for making this video.
Even though I live in Europe,
I still feel the presence of the Dark Lord.
It is important not to let it bring you down.
I watched this on Nebula, of course.
✌✌
The amen part is even better on more recent shows cause you get a big pyro explosion on each syllable BANG BANG as the crowd chants, so sick 🤩
This was my favorite song in fourth grade. You're taking me back, and it's not all great, but I'm grateful for this dope video about a spanking song!
I was ready to say a few things about that time and my experiences, but I read your pinned post. Out of respect, I've opted to just drop this fun fact: Samuel Bayer who directed "Smells Like Teen Spirit", the American Idiot videos including "Wake Me Up When September Ends" later directed commercials for the U.S. Army to recruit more soldiers.
You are actually a godsend, i’m writing an essay about political music right now and used this song as a source
This song, and especally your breakdown of it, really make me want to give in to an old show i wanted to make called "Fu*k it, lets talk politics."
Your videos do something ive wanted to do all my life, which is explain music, lyrics, and the history behind them, and you do it in such a wonderful way.
I hope one day my content can inspire someone the way you inspire me
Cool video as always.
And stay strong US comrards. Greeting from France where we will maybe be in the same sh*t as you in 2 years (well we're already in some of it anyway... ).
❤💪
Thanks for making this video. I've been watching a long time and it's great to see someone committing to being an ally during the hard times. Great band, good song, and an inspiring video from a solid creator. ❤
guys that thumbnail is actually crazy
There's a mash up of this song that blows my mind - "Holiday" and "Doctorin the TARDIS" (which is itself a mash up from the 80s of Rock and Roll part 2 and Doctor Who theme). You mentioned a siren - which is present in this version. Anyway "Doctor Who on Holiday by Dean Gray from American Edit": th-cam.com/video/PAzzhJeTp-I/w-d-xo.html
16:30 this is still so true. One reason that Green Day’s a timeless artist: their ability to speak on social issues in their music and call out the injustices our politicians commit every single day.
Audioslave's "Wide Awake" always comes to mind during that ...era. The live version of Chris Cornell performing it solo is Earth-shattering.
The video for Otep's Warhead is what sparked my interest in graphic design
19:17 - enden that frase on a C also lets him have the dominant feeling in the return jump from C (no 3) to Fmi - it’s very short - but it gives you a feeling of “oh we’re not done yet!” - Said feeling of being done is what you get in the next line, as the riff ends in an Eb-C-F.