Who else finds the song, "american idiot" offensive?

Question

just listened to the song and found out how offensive it is to americans. I'm not american, and for some reason i still find it offensive. (hence i live in Canada)

Who made this song and what is he? canadian, french, asian, etc.

I know its from green day but what country are they from?

That is a very offensive song to americans.

so i basically have to questions here.

who finds it offensive?

and

where is he from? the guy who made the song?

thanks!

Answer 1

No I don't find the song offensive to Americans. And unless you feel that a band cannot be critical of mainstream American media then I don't understand how you would be offended by it.

But I do agree with the remark that people who wear make-up are hard to take seriously. Every time I watch Fox News and see all the mascara caked onto Shepherd Smith's eye lashes, I find it hard to take him seriously. I mean unless Sheperd was covering an underground drag queen ball, and then, of course, it would lend him some street cred, so to speak.

Answer 2

It was written by a bisexual, registered Libertarian Party voter in California, who is an obama supporter. Yes, he was born in the US... unfortunately, he can't be deported, or stripped of his Citizenship.

Billie Joe Armstrong was born February 17, 1972, in Rodeo, California.

Offensive, but considering the source, not surprising.

Answer 3

Green Day - punk band (says it all-anarchy)

Don't wanna be an American idiot.

Don't want a nation under the new media.

And can you hear the sound of hysteria?

The subliminal mindfuck America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.

All across the alien nation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

Well that's enough to argue.

Well maybe I'm the ****** 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 alien nation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

Well that's enough to argue.

Don't wanna be an American idiot.

One nation controlled by the media.

Information nation of hysteria.

It's going out to idiot America.

Welcome to a new kind of tension.

All across the alien nation.

Everything isn't meant to be okay.

Television dreams of tomorrow.

We're not the ones who're meant to follow.

Well that's enough to argue.

Answer 4

Americans are basically idiots in the sense that they are completley ignorant of what the government is doing and are too busy with entertainment to notice ("under the new media"). A lot of people don't even know that Bush gave our nuclear bomb secrets to China.

COME ON PEOPLE!

I don't particularly like the song but it does have some truth in it. We are an alien country, there are many foreigners here (not always legal which is what I find offensive). We ARE blind with the new media.

So no I don't find it offensive and I have lived in America my WHOLE life.

Answer 5

The band is from The USA. Pretty sure they are all from California. I don't find it offensive. I don't like the song, not because of the message. Greenday is lame, especially their newer music.

Answer 6

Its from Green Day

And men that wear makeup lack the ability to offend me

Answer 7

well they're right on one thing, I hate the biased liberal media that is portraying Obama as like our nation's saviour when all he's gunna do is flare up racial violence (simply because he's black regardless if he supports the fighting or not) and turn the United States into a socialist sess pit

Answer 8

A little late to the party? It's by Green Day, an American band, and it came out years ago. I'm not offended at all. It's rather accurate in several aspects.