Listen to the audio version of the article
It’s called “Saviors” and it is the fourteenth studio album by Green Day, the American rock band that last October had anticipated the song “The American dream is killing me” as the lead single of the new work. The song is a powerful punk rock anthem that highlights all the band’s nonconformism and is configured as a protest anthem against the American lifestyle.
“American Idiot”
Among other things, the band is not new to launching a certain type of message in their lyrics, targeting the way of life of their compatriots who are often mocked; as in “American Idiot” in which they harshly criticized the slope that the country was taking under the leadership of former president George Bush.
Billie Joe Armstrong, the band’s frontman, in fact, describes the single and the entire work as “a look at the way in which the traditional American dream doesn’t work for many people” and that, indeed, it is precisely the dream that “kills them” . A harsh criticism which contains numerous references to American current affairs; from the housing crisis, to the role of Tiktokers who seem like new gurus, to unemployment and the impact all this has on society.
All these elements were already contained in the single “The American Dream is Killing Me” which, as soon as it was written and recorded – initially – to be one of the last songs on the album, was then chosen as the main song of “Saviors”.
Back to the origins
The album promises to be a real return to the origins, also due to the presence of Rob Cavallo who had not worked with the band as a producer since 2012 and with whom they had already recorded “Dookie”, the third work of the American group. According to the band’s intentions, “Saviors” is “an invitation to enter the brain of Green Day, into their concept of community and friendship, of culture and legacy of the last 30-plus years. It’s raw and emotional. Funny and disturbing. It’s a laugh in pain, a cry in happiness. Honesty and vulnerability”. The tracklist is made up of 15 tracks which will – almost all – be part of the tour that will start in the United States in 2024 with Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and The Linda Lindas.