Why most musicals are bad.

American Idiot- The Musical. Are we really so out of ideas that we have to take a band that's over glorified and make them into a Broadway musical? What has our world come to? Since Green Day isn’t making enough money on their so called music, we better make them a musical so they can suck more money out of… well… American Idiots.

I liked Green Day once. I liked their album Dookie, which is my basis for any good punk band or song. Green Day’s Dookie set the standard for true punk music. And they threw it all away. I’m going to be legitimately honest; some songs on American Idiot were okay (like Holiday and Wake Me Up When September Ends) But a musical? Really guys? Let’s give a punk rock band a musical to make people with poor taste to spend more money on their sad excuse for music and to piss off the informed population even more. Are you freaking kidding me?

And the story behind Wake Me Up When September Ends isn’t a patriotic tale about 9/11. The original meaning behind the song was when Billy Joel Armstrong’s father died in 1982 when he was ten. During his father’s funeral Armstrong ran home and hid himself in his room, and when his mother came to check on him he asked her to wake him up when September ended. Now, a lot of Americans took the song and thought of 9/11, which is fine, the lyrics match up really well ("Drenched in my pain again, becoming who we are" - the realization of the fact that everything we go through, all the pain and losses), but it pisses me off that people don’t know the actual story behind the song. IF you’re a real fan, you do. And I wouldn’t consider myself a fan, so why do I know that? Google. That’s how. If you really like a band, you’ll at least google them. Come on.

The musical is pretty much a bunch of Broadway idiots dancing around in grunge-punk clothing and ridiculous amounts of eyeliner, imagining they are actually going to make it somewhere. Yeah right! Apparently they invited a story line out of Green Day’s bullshit anti-America album, American Idiot. The “story” follows three friends trying to follow their dreams and find meaning in the September 11^th terrorist attacks. So, they’re making a patriotic musical about… an album smashing the American system and the American people? Awesome. That’s not any form of money making crap. I’m so done with Green Day. Wake me up when this crappy musical ends.