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God knows I didn't until five minutes ago.
But not everyone seems to be cool with this totally not pathetic attempt by a bunch of millionaires pushing fifty trying to jump on the woke bus and get thos sweet, sweet asspats and $$$s!
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Article Link: https://www.spin.com/2019/04/green-day-graphic-novel-last-of-the-american-girls/
Green Day Wrote a Graphic Novel About “True Rebel Girls”
Green Day have announced a new graphic novel based on “Last of the American Girls” from their 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown. Fans will recall the song tells the story of a bike-riding, hunger-striking character named Gloria who dons makeup “like graffiti on the walls of the heartland.” A production description says the book celebrates “true rebel girls—girls who push back, girls who use their voice, girls who say no.” The band partnered with cartoonist Frank Caruso for the illustrations.
Green Day released their latest album Revolution Radio in 2016. That same year, they were reported to be working on a film adaptation of their album and subsequent stage musical American Idiot for HBO. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s newest band The Longshot released their debut album Love Is For Losers last April.
Green Day Wrote a Graphic Novel About “True Rebel Girls”
Green Day have announced a new graphic novel based on “Last of the American Girls” from their 2009 album 21st Century Breakdown. Fans will recall the song tells the story of a bike-riding, hunger-striking character named Gloria who dons makeup “like graffiti on the walls of the heartland.” A production description says the book celebrates “true rebel girls—girls who push back, girls who use their voice, girls who say no.” The band partnered with cartoonist Frank Caruso for the illustrations.
Green Day released their latest album Revolution Radio in 2016. That same year, they were reported to be working on a film adaptation of their album and subsequent stage musical American Idiot for HBO. Frontman Billie Joe Armstrong’s newest band The Longshot released their debut album Love Is For Losers last April.
Direct Link: https://www.harpercollins.com/9780062964106/last-of-the-american-girls/
A rallying cry for all rebel girls: from Green Day and co-authored and illustrated by artist Frank Caruso comes a timely, inspiring illustrated rendition of the Grammy winning band’s classic hit “Last of the American Girls”—the song Rolling Stone called “a fabulous left-wing love song to a rebel girl . . . when Armstrong sings, ‘she won’t cooperate,’ he’s giving her the highest compliment he can imagine.”
One of the most important and influential artists of their generation, the high-energy rock band Green Day has continued to inspire millions of fans worldwide with their music, political views, and iconoclastic conviction. Now, they transform their Billboard hit “Last of the American Girls” into a full-color illustrated book of the song's lyrics.
She’s a runaway of the establishment incorporated
She won’t cooperate
She will come in first
For the end of western civilization
She’s a natural disaster
She’s the last of the American girls
Since they exploded in the culture in 1994, Green Day has continued to surprise and energize its fans through the evolution of its music, songwriting, and artistic ambition. The band has long been ahead of its time, and “Last of the American Girls” is a testament to their vision. Released in 2010, the song about a spirited nonconformist young woman named Gloria embodies today’s cultural zeitgeist and is a salute and tribute to female empowerment and individuality. Celebrating true rebel girls—girls who push back, girls who use their voice, girls who say no—Last of the American Girls takes on both the establishment and the upwardly mobile, espousing an infectious spirit that has never been more relevant.
A rallying cry for all rebel girls: from Green Day and co-authored and illustrated by artist Frank Caruso comes a timely, inspiring illustrated rendition of the Grammy winning band’s classic hit “Last of the American Girls”—the song Rolling Stone called “a fabulous left-wing love song to a rebel girl . . . when Armstrong sings, ‘she won’t cooperate,’ he’s giving her the highest compliment he can imagine.”
One of the most important and influential artists of their generation, the high-energy rock band Green Day has continued to inspire millions of fans worldwide with their music, political views, and iconoclastic conviction. Now, they transform their Billboard hit “Last of the American Girls” into a full-color illustrated book of the song's lyrics.
She’s a runaway of the establishment incorporated
She won’t cooperate
She will come in first
For the end of western civilization
She’s a natural disaster
She’s the last of the American girls
Since they exploded in the culture in 1994, Green Day has continued to surprise and energize its fans through the evolution of its music, songwriting, and artistic ambition. The band has long been ahead of its time, and “Last of the American Girls” is a testament to their vision. Released in 2010, the song about a spirited nonconformist young woman named Gloria embodies today’s cultural zeitgeist and is a salute and tribute to female empowerment and individuality. Celebrating true rebel girls—girls who push back, girls who use their voice, girls who say no—Last of the American Girls takes on both the establishment and the upwardly mobile, espousing an infectious spirit that has never been more relevant.
But not everyone seems to be cool with this totally not pathetic attempt by a bunch of millionaires pushing fifty trying to jump on the woke bus and get thos sweet, sweet asspats and $$$s!
Direct Link: https://www.theguardian.com/music/s...t-authors-for-a-book-about-female-empowerment
What makes Green Day think four men are the perfect authors for a book about female empowerment?
The three washed-up male punks and cartoonist Frank Caruso have struck a bum note in trying to celebrate the rebellious woman
Greta Thunberg, Emma González, Amandla Stenberg? Step aside, dilettantes. The new voice of female activism is here, and she is a “natural disaster”, a “hurricane in the heart of the devastation”, “a runaway of the establishment incorporated”. She is also fictional, dreamed up by four men: punk band Green Day and cartoonist Frank Caruso.
Caruso has adapted Green Day’s 2009 song, Last of the American Girls, into a graphic novel of the same name, billed as “an inspiring homage [to] and handbook for the rebellious – every woman who refuses to capitulate”. Shall we play Feminist Press Release Bingo? It’s a “rallying cry for rebel girls”, a tribute to “female empowerment”. This “infectious spirit” has, of course, “never been more relevant”.
You can’t help but wonder if Green Day thought this through. Surely no self-respecting rebellious woman would buy a book about “female empowerment” by three washed-up punks. If only songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong could portray women as anything other than a random assembly of rabble-rousing tropes, including wearing makeup that looks “like graffiti on the walls of the heartland”, digging conspiracy theories and owning vinyl.
Armstrong’s manic punky dream girl is the nadir of publishing’s obsession with rebellious women. As the trend has proliferated, so the sharp edges of the women whose lives they document have been sanded down into vaguely aspirational #girlboss dross. It is also the nadir of Armstrong’s songwriting. Green Day’s early work was surprisingly progressive, and rarely – especially for US pop-punk – overtly misogynist. But in recent years, fetishising, contemptuous and paternalistic language has soiled Armstrong’s lyrics: irresistible women tease him with their devilish ways; the titular figure from 2012’s Drama Queen is “old enough to bleed now”, and the video to that year’s Oh Love is inexplicably filled with barely clothed models.
The irrelevance of punk’s old lags is well established: Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled By Women, declared the New York Times two years ago. Rather than glom on to that wave with a cash-in book, Green Day would do better to cede the floor.
What makes Green Day think four men are the perfect authors for a book about female empowerment?
The three washed-up male punks and cartoonist Frank Caruso have struck a bum note in trying to celebrate the rebellious woman
Greta Thunberg, Emma González, Amandla Stenberg? Step aside, dilettantes. The new voice of female activism is here, and she is a “natural disaster”, a “hurricane in the heart of the devastation”, “a runaway of the establishment incorporated”. She is also fictional, dreamed up by four men: punk band Green Day and cartoonist Frank Caruso.
Caruso has adapted Green Day’s 2009 song, Last of the American Girls, into a graphic novel of the same name, billed as “an inspiring homage [to] and handbook for the rebellious – every woman who refuses to capitulate”. Shall we play Feminist Press Release Bingo? It’s a “rallying cry for rebel girls”, a tribute to “female empowerment”. This “infectious spirit” has, of course, “never been more relevant”.
You can’t help but wonder if Green Day thought this through. Surely no self-respecting rebellious woman would buy a book about “female empowerment” by three washed-up punks. If only songwriter Billie Joe Armstrong could portray women as anything other than a random assembly of rabble-rousing tropes, including wearing makeup that looks “like graffiti on the walls of the heartland”, digging conspiracy theories and owning vinyl.
Armstrong’s manic punky dream girl is the nadir of publishing’s obsession with rebellious women. As the trend has proliferated, so the sharp edges of the women whose lives they document have been sanded down into vaguely aspirational #girlboss dross. It is also the nadir of Armstrong’s songwriting. Green Day’s early work was surprisingly progressive, and rarely – especially for US pop-punk – overtly misogynist. But in recent years, fetishising, contemptuous and paternalistic language has soiled Armstrong’s lyrics: irresistible women tease him with their devilish ways; the titular figure from 2012’s Drama Queen is “old enough to bleed now”, and the video to that year’s Oh Love is inexplicably filled with barely clothed models.
The irrelevance of punk’s old lags is well established: Rock’s Not Dead, It’s Ruled By Women, declared the New York Times two years ago. Rather than glom on to that wave with a cash-in book, Green Day would do better to cede the floor.
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