Favourite music videos-Peter

Green Day is a punk rock band, and my favourite track from the band is entitled “Holiday”.

The song ”Holiday” is taken from the album “American Idiot” by Green Day, released in 2004. It tells a story about the main character of the album, Jesus of Suburbia. He finally breaks free from his dead end job and enters the city. He is feeling extremely excited and elated about it. He is on holiday and starting a new chapter in his life.
The song was written by the lead singer of the band, Billy Joe Armstrong. He stated that the song was an “anti-war” song, and we can tell this from many of the lyrics.
“Hear the sound of the falling rain, coming down like an Armageddon flame”. He feels the war started by George Bush could signal the end of the world as a whole.
“The shame, the ones who died without a name”. This tells of all the victims of war, both soldiers and civilians, who have died in war situations.
The first half of the video takes place in a car, and shows the members of the band partying around the town.
The second half is set in a bar and each of the band members play several different characters. Billie Joe Armstrong plays a Representative of California, two men fighting, and a punk rocker. Tre Cool plays a drunken priest, a man who has been arrested and a female prostitute. Mike Dirnt plays the barman, another punk and the policeman.
There are also scenes showing tired and worn out can-can dancers.
This video links into the video for the next track on the album entitled Boulevard of Broken Dreams. The car they are travelling in breaks down in a field.
This video is my favourite as it has created a very memorable image in my head. The lyrics are also very catchy making them stick in my head. The part I mainly remember is the section where the beat dies down and Billy commences with ‘seek out the president gas man…’ The beat backing this section sticks in my head as it’s the same guitar chords repeated over and over again.  The beat also has a very fast pace which fits to the fast pace of the video, which shows how well it was edited together. The actual video itself contains moments of humour i.e. seeing Tré dressed as a woman. This appeals to me as I appreciate this form of humour. The music genre of the video is punk-rock which is my favourite style of music as it has a heavy beat and good lyrics. The costumes also appeal to me, as they are quite formal with a shirt and tie. This is a style I often wear. I very much hope to go to a Green Day concert.

~Peter~