Green Day have announced their 14th album, Saviors, which arrives January 19 via Reprise/Warner (pre-order). It reunites them with longtime producer Rob Cavallo for the first time in over 10 years, and first single “The American Dream Is Killing Me” feels cut from the same cloth as American Idiot, with punchy power chords, a stadium-sized hook, a string section, and subject matter that Billie Joe Armstrong describes as “a look at the way the traditional American Dream doesn’t work for a lot of people — in fact, it’s hurting a lot of people.” It comes with a video inspired by black-and-white film noir and zombie apocalypse films, directed by Brendan Walter and Ryan Baxley. Check that out below.
The album announcement reads:
Saviors is an invitation into Green Day’s brain, their collective spirit as a band, and an understanding of friendship, culture and legacy of the last 30 plus years.
It’s raw and emotional. Funny and disturbing. It’s a laugh at the pain, weep in the happiness kind of record.
Honesty and vulnerability.
What is Saviors about, you ask?
Power pop, punk, rock, indie triumph. disease, war, inequality, influencers, yoga retreats, alt right, dating apps, masks, MENTAL HEALTH, climate change, oligarchs, social media division, free weed, fentanyl, fragility,,..
What would Andy Warhol do?
What would John Waters do?
What would Quentin Tarantino do?What would GREEN DAY do?
Green Day debuted “The American Dream Is Killing Me” live at an intimate Vegas show last week before playing it again at the When We Were Young festival over the weekend, where they also debuted a second track from the album, “Look Ma, No Brains!” Stay tuned for the official release of that one.
Green Day will play Amazon Music Live’s concert series on Thursday (10/26) and they’re headlining the Twisted Tea Grey Cup Halftime Show for the 110th Grey Cup in Ontario on November 19. They’ll be doing a stadium tour in 2024 with The Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and The Linda Lindas–dates TBA.
