American Idiot

You know, My Chemical Romance, the success they have with that album speak for itself.

Rob Cavallo was hot off most recently Green Day's American Idiot, one of the biggest albums in the world from 2004 that that band had been touring for the better part of two years.

So it's kind of just a natural thing pairing in my mind um and he would go on to produce the band's future albums as well but he got them on a plane uh to back out west to la um to start recording the album and i i don't know what are your thoughts about this pairing walker rob caballo strengths as a producer

I think it's wonderful.

Aside from that, it is not a nepotism thing.

It's not nepotism that I think this guy's really good at his job.

Just the Green Day albums here that he's produced are Dookie, Insomniac, Nimrod, and American Idiot.

And this is not a hot take about Green Day, but to me that is a pretty... run in terms of just four classics back to back.

Samuel Bayer, on top of directing the

majority, if not all, of the Green Day's American Idiot music videos... like all the songs from that album.

He's primarily a music video director, which is fairly obvious from watching these opening credits and stuff.

It definitely has that vibe.

So number 92 was Mine, Holiday by Green Day.

Love the American Idiot album.

I know that's quite controversial.

It was a war album protest against the US's invasion of Iraq, but it's one of those generational songs.

Green Day with American Idiot, which is where I came in 2009, is also when they released 21st Century Breakdown, which I feel like was also a turning point for them.

And in retrospect, that album is like so much a carbon copy of American Idiot that it's like frustrating.

To kind of like look back at that and be like, oh, they were kind of just trying to do the same thing again.

Yeah.

Yeah,

they definitely did.

That was what worked on American Idiot and not that it was the best songs they had ever written.

Right.

And then before you know it, there's Dookie, and they're one of the biggest rock bands in the country.

And then in the early 2000s, they do American Idiot, and a lot of people disliked American Idiot.

A lot of people liked it, a lot of people disliked it.

Metallica, giant heavy metal band.

And maybe that's the key in all of this.

But the question is, can you sell out and still maintain some level of authenticity that keeps your core group of people interested? Particularly in an opinion business.

There will always be people that like Dookie and like American Idiot and like whatever is done by Green Day.

There will always be Metallica.