Originally Posted by
Hsu
American Idiot made me really dislike Greenday. I really wanted to get into the album and its message, but it just was all poorly done. At the end of the day, it was still just pop punk with meaningless lyrics. Then they went on and did TV specials about how they knew their work was such a significant rock opera criticizing the government, and how it was such a big deal and they were awesome. But it just wasn't.
The whole thing was just so pretentious, it turned me off of them entirely.