The fanbase hated Green Day’s latest album, Father of All…(implied motherfuckers bcs I’m sure Spotify would have flagged it) but I didn’t, and here is why:
I did not vvibe deeply with it, I’m not gonna lie, but Green Day has had a very long journey in the industry and they finally have the autonomy, the respect and the means to do whatever they want, so I don’t think it’s weird that they wanted to do something experimental.
That’s how this album felt to me, experimental, like American Beauty/American Psycho by Fall Out Boy, the pop mess that was so fun to listen to but wasn’t really that cohesive, got a little tiring after a while and it really felt like an album made for testing out what the band was capable of doing but still very enjoyable.
It feels like this is exactly what this new album is supposed to be, fun to make, a little raw and a little messy, but the blueprint of an absurdly good next album, like Fall Out Boy’s Mania, which not only made a lot of sense as an evolution from AB/AP but it felt glorious, new and timeless at the same time, the kind of album that quickly became one of my favorites and had so many feelings tangled in it that even though I rarely listen to it these days, I absolutely adore it, 3 years after it’s release it provokes emotions so intense that it feels like the first time I heard it.
Green Day is a band that has evolved and keeps evolving album after album, to me it was actually weird to see them release Revolution Radio, an album that seems to me like a copy of American Idiot. They have grown and their albums sound like that, they sound like men who keep getting better and better for themselves and not for their audience, so I think Father of All… was a courageous fuck you to the music industry and to some of their fans still stuck in a 1993 album and I vvibe DEEPLY with that.
I absolutely adore Green Day and have been listening to them since I was 7 and they have been a band longer than I have been a person. I mean 34 years to 22? The band was already in middle school by the time I decided to show up. And they have grown, from young adults when they released Dookie to actual middle-aged men, and I don’t like this culture of expecting artists to keep making the same things through 30 years, I think it’s what people think they want but when it happens, see Red Hot Chilli Peppers, they don’t like it.
I believe fans exist to support and to understand artists and their decisions. As a fan of Green Day, I think we have to be grateful that they are still a band and still releasing new songs, also, still giving 300% of energy at every single concert. I always say a Green Day concert is an experience in itself, the way Billie Joe leads the crowd, the way he is 100% present, it’s a difficult thing to find these days, it’s raw, it’s glorious.
So I think Father of All… is good, not because I love it, but because I feel like I understand where it comes from, and am just happy they are still growing and experimenting and happy to be doing it as a band and the fact that they decide to share it with us, I love that. I think, considering the albums that come before, but not Revolution Radio, so yeah, the trilogy, it’s simply growth, evolution and I can almost feel them laughing through it.
In conclusion, I don’t think Father of All… is their best album, but I think it is the first glance we got of one.
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