Over the weekend, 50 Cent appeared on Vh1’s Top 20 countdown—yes, it is focused on music videos!—and while introducing the No. 6 video of the week, Green Day’s “21 Guns,” Curtis said to host Jim Shearer, “Man, I’d love to be able to have a song called ‘21 Guns’ on VH1.” This isn’t the first time that 50 has (rightly) noted the odd discrepancies in MTV Networks’ lyric-bleeping thresholds, but it is a good moment to maybe do a rundown of what MTV and its matrix of sister networks have censored lately? (Hey, the lousy economy is resulting in all those channels playing more music videos!) A few noticeable omissions and non-omissions from recent tracks after the jump—feel free to add your own! MORE »
Posts Tagged ‘Green Day’
bleepwatch
Tracking The Ever-Shifting Priorities Of MTV Networks’ Standards And Practices Department
everybody's a winner
MTV Gets Ready To Honor “Single Ladies” One More Time
Beyoncé, Kings of Leon, and Shakira have each scooped up multiple nominations for MTV’s European Music Awards, which will be held in Berlin on Nov. 5 and feature performances by Green Day, X Factor-winning warbler Leona Lewis, and “popular on the Internet” mope-rock act Tokio Hotel. The winners in most of the categories—save Best Video Of The Year, which inexplicably includes Eminem’s stale-on-arrival “We Made You” as the lone male-fronted video in its ranks—will be determined by fan voting, which probably explains the Jonas Brothers vs. Tokio Hotel matchup in the “Best Group” category. (Gimme an S! Gimme an E! Gimme an O!) Full list of non-regional nominations after the jump. MORE »
putting the pseudo in pseudo-event
The Video Music Awards Will Take Place On A Green Day
Green Day and Pink are the latest additions to the “featured performers” lineup at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, taking place on Sept. 13; they join Muse and Taylor Swift on the evening’s bill. Pink will continue to flog Funhouse, which only came out a year ago (it feels like forever!); meanwhile, I am wondering if Green Day will bring out Stephanie, a fan in attendance at the band’s Madison Square Garden show the other night who hopped onstage and performed “Jesus Of Suburbia” with the band on guitar while clad in a Misfits T-shirt, and who had the crowd eating out of her hand by the time she was done. (Hey, the VMAs are in New York this year!) Clip of what is, I hope, the first of many incredible moments in this young woman’s life after the jump. MORE »
the biz
Will “Vinyl Saturday” Drag People Back To The Record Stores?
The people behind the one-day indie-music-retail blowout Record Store Day are hoping so; they’ve declared the third Saturday of every month Vinyl Saturday, on which limited-edition vinyl releases will be available at participating indie shops. The first installment is Saturday, June 20, and there will be four special releases on shelves that day: MORE »
upcoming tours
From the looks of their tour openers, it would seem that Green Day is still pretty nostalgic for the year that American Idiot came out: Franz Ferdinand, the Kaiser Chiefs, and the Bravery will open for the band as they crisscross the world from July to October. No, really, I swear this story isn’t a piece from 2004 that had a re-datestamped version of it horked up by Google News! Here’s proof! [LiveDaily] MORE »
everything must go
Green Day Knows Its Enemy, And Its Name Is Wal-Mart
Green Day’s 21st Century Breakdown is not available at Wal-Mart because the band refused to reconfigure the album into a cleaned-up version required by the Arkansas-based megachain. Yet it sold better than every other album that was available at a Wal-Mart last week. Is this a sign that holding on to artistic integrity pays, or just that your typical Green Day fan is more of a Target type? [AP] MORE »
the last word
Green Day Make Punk Arena-Sized
Our look at the closing lines of the week’s biggest new-music reviews continues with a roundup of reactions to 21st Century Breakdown, the eighth studio album by Green Day: MORE »
the new model
Green Day Would Like To Know Your Enemy… For Market-Research Purposes
Green Day’s May 20 show in New York City will be at a new venue called the PC Richard Theater, a new venue downtown that bills itself as “the new live performance home for Clear Channel Radio” in New York City. And if you didn’t think that was exciting enough, wait until you try to actually get tickets!
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(intentional) leak of the day
Green Day Hit The Accelerator, Unsure Of Where They’re Going To Wind Up
ARTIST: Green Day
TITLES: “East Jesus Nowhere,” “21 Guns,” “Restless Heart Syndrome,” “Before The Breakdown,” “21st Century Breakdown,” “American Eulogy”
WEB DEBUT: May 5, 2009 MORE »
100 and single
Green Day Own Rock Charts, Prepare to Qualify
The most notable move on any of Billboard’s flagship singles charts this week isn’t on the Hot 100, where the Black Eyed Peas make it a month at No. 1 with the tiresome “Boom Boom Pow.”
Instead, over on the normally snoozy Modern Rock chart, a veteran band makes the second-biggest leap to No. 1 in a decade and a half, and in the process breaks out of a tie with U2 for the second-biggest roster of penthouse-dwellers in this chart’s history.
I’m speaking of Green Day, a band with arguably the most daunting challenge of any act in post-millennial rock (especially since Axl Rose finally got Chinese Democracy out of his system): following up an album that hit the trifecta of popular success, critical acclaim and industry recognition.
Scoring a No. 1 hit right away at radio sets up that forthcoming album nicely. But a close examination of the erstwhile Bay Area punkers’ chart history indicates that this quick score doesn’t necessarily mean much as a predictor of Green Day’s success. MORE »
