I was at a local watering hole last night and wanted to play a song I often do by Green Day...the anti right wing, obviously anti Fox News ditty called 'American Idiot' which was one of the most powerful anti-media/thought control songs ever made in the post 911 age. I was wondering if anyone else had noticed that or would check it out the next time they were near one of these machines.
I've included a link to the actual song and video, so you can see for yourself what a powerful statement it was against the right wing influence in media as well as its paranoia and divisive nature. The tune, of course, begins with the priceless declaration, "Don't wanna be an American idiot. Don't want a nation under the new media. Can you hear the shout of hysteria? The sublminal mind-fvck America!" (I can see Bill O'Lielly chafing at that line!)
One of the most powerful lines in the song is, "Well maybe I'm the faggot America. I'm not part of the redneck agenda," which famously tossed the whole 'gay agenda' bullshit right back in the faces of the religious kooks who, when they're not complaining because a Muslim elected official actually wants to exercise the 'freedom of religion' guaranteed by our country by taking his oath of office on the Koran, are constantly trying whip up fear of the those uppity gays actually demanding their rights and recognition as American citizens! It was especially encouraging to see musicians actually address the relentless assault on gays and lesbians for a change. I think musicians could've done more to ridicule and take on the anti-gay loonies like Santorum, Dobson, Bush, et al.
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Now, of course, there may indeed be some reason why the song yanked off the playlist, but I just thought it odd that even with the more in depth search (which you may pay up to a dollar extra for)American Idiot does not appear, the the rest of the album's contents does. I hope I'm not coming off as one of those conspiracy nuts, but it does seem odd and I was wondering if any others had noticed it or any other clearly anti-Bush age music pulled from Touch Tunes line-up. Honest to God, I can't imagine why a rather popular and quite recent song would get yanked, but the Cowsills are readily available.