Green Day are back. The band’s new album, Saviors, is due out on Friday, 19th January 2024. It’s their first record since 2020’s Father of All Motherfuckers, a spottily reviewed record but one that was warmly embraced by the fans who have had Dookie ringing in their ears since it came out back in 1994.
The album’s lead single, ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’, has just dropped. Billie Joe Armstrong, the group’s creative force, described it as a song that looks “at the way the traditional American Dream doesn’t work for a lot of people – in fact, it’s hurting a lot of people.”
Green Day – ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’
Green Day worked with directors Brendan Walter and Ryan Baxley on the video for ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’. The noir-ish black and white visual features Green Day performing the song in the midst of a zombie apocalypse.
Saviors is being pitched as something of a return to the halcyon days of Green Day. Co-producer Rob Cavallo previously worked on both Dookie and 2004’s American Idiot, widely regarded as the two best records in the band’s discography.
Further Reading
Green Day Announce ‘Dookie’ 30th Anniversary Deluxe Reissue
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