TAG_TO_ADD_HERE Template:Infobox single American Idiot is the starting song in Green Day's American Idiot.
Overview
"American Idiot" is a song by the A
merican punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the first single from their album of the same name.
Released in 2004, the single peaked at #61 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Green Day's first Billboard Hot 100 chart entry (excluding singles that charted on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart), helping revive the band's career. However, the appearance of "American Idiot" on the US singles charts occurred just prior to Billboard's inclusion of internet download purchases into their Billboard Hot 100 chart data, which would have made a significant difference in the song's peak had it benefited from the new chart tabulation system. This most recent form of sales assessment has resulted in the far greater successes of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Holiday" and "Wake Me Up When September Ends". "American Idiot" became Green Day's first Top 5 single in the United Kingdom, reaching #3, and peaked at #7 in Australia. It debuted at #1 in Canada, holding onto the zenith position for five weeks. In Australia, the song was ranked #22 on Triple J's Hottest 100 of 2004. Green Day performed this song at the 2005 Grammy Awards. The album won for Best Rock Album.
Lyrics
Official music video
These are the lyrics for American Idiot from the album American Idiot.
- Don't wanna be an American idiot
- Don't want a nation under the new media
- And can you hear the sounds of hysteria?
- The subliminal mind fuck America
- Welcome to a new kind of tension
- All across the alienation
- 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
- Maybe I'm the faggot America
- I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
- Now everybody do the propaganda
- And sing along in the age of paranoia
- Welcome to a new kind of tension
- All across the alienation
- 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 wanna be an American idiot
- One nation controlled by the media
- Information age of hysteria
- It's going out to idiot America
- Welcome to a new kind of tension
- All across the alienation
- 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
Trivia
- Billie Joe said this song was about himself.