Greenday- American Idiot

Greenday – American Idiot

I don’t want to be an American idiot.
Don’t want a nation under the new mania
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.Well maybe I’m the faggot America.
I’m not a part of a redneck agenda.
Now everybody do the propaganda.
And sing along to the age of paranoia.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.

Don’t want to be an American idiot.
One nation controlled by the media.
Information age of hysteria.
It’s calling out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.
All across the alien nation.
Where everything isn’t meant to be okay.
Television dreams of tomorrow.
We’re not the ones who’re meant to follow.
For that’s enough to argue.

“American Idiot”is the 7th album of the band green Day. 

The song was created to criticize the policy and acting of the U.S.A. after the terrorist attack of 9.11. . Referring to such issues as paranoia, propaganda and media, as well as “redneck agendas” and “alien nations” the song describes the everyday insanity caused by the american policy and  government. As the song was published in 2004, when George W. Bush was re-elected it can be seen as harsh criticism on his policy especially.  It mainly denounces the growing influence of media and propaganda onto the American people, done by politicians and their propaganda, and the hysteria caused by the scare tactics America uses as justification for happenings like the Iraq War which otherwise couldn’t be justified by any means.

The person in the song refuses to take part in this society and breaks through the common anthypathie.