Global rock superstars Green Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – have returned with a fiery call to action on their brand-new single “The American Dream Is Killing Me.” The single is the opening track from the group’s 14th studio album, Saviors, released on 19th January 2024.
“The American Dream Is Killing Me” is accompanied by a film noir-inspired black and white music video featuring Green Day in the midst of a zombie apocalypse. The video was directed by Brendan Walter and Ryan Baxley and shot in Los Angeles.
The band debuted “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Look Ma, No Brains!” from the new album live last weekend during their triumphant and electrifying Las Vegas, NV, takeover. The band played a surprise, sold-out show at the 800-capacity Fremont, where they performed Dookie from front to back, as well as two headline performances at the When We Were Young Festival.
“The American Dream Is Killing Me” was one of the last tracks written and recorded by Green Day for Saviors. “As soon we cut it, we said, Okay, that’s going first,’” says Billie Joe Armstrong, who describes the new song 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.”
Listen to “The American Dream Is Killing Me” – BELOW:
Green Day’s new album Saviors, will be available in a number of exclusive vinyl versions. These include neon pink with neon green splatter and black ice with hot pink splatter, with most in very limited supply and pressed only once. Recorded in London and Los Angeles, Saviors is the latest powerful collaboration between Green Day and Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo, whose notable previous work with Green Day includes two of the band’s most iconic albums, 1994’s Dookie and 2004’s American Idiot.
The release of Saviors comes just ahead of Dookie’s 30th anniversary, and celebrations for that anniversary have already begun with the release of a massive deluxe edition of the album, as well as the recent Las Vegas show.
Green Day will be performing this Thursday, 26th October, as part of Amazon Music Live’s concert series and on 19th November, they headline the Twisted Tea Grey Cup Halftime Show for the 110th Grey Cup at Tim Hortons Field in Hamilton, Ontario.
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