The politics of Green Day

Let's get one thing off, I hate the concept of a "Rock-Opera", it's lame and ever since The Beatles pulled it off (Sgt. Pepper and the Lonely Heart Club Band) no one else has managed to do so. And even the Beatles' record wasn't a rock opera, it was just an album with songs that mixed with each other. "American Idiot" Green Day's revival, that's what a lot of people said. Out of the entire mess that the album was only one song was good, in my opinion, that was "Wake me up when September Ends". And that's it, the rest songs were trash, musically and lyrically. And now they're about to release "21st Century Breakdown" the followup to "Idiot", please give us a break, Green Day. The best thing for the boys to do is go back to their quasi-punkish roots and blast out a 2 minute song with no solo, and make a funny video and watch the money roll right on! I liked when Green Day didn't think it was up to them to rouse the masses to fight the power, their old stuff was better. This new stuff with "political" messages, of course, if you can even call that politically charged,is lame. Green Day is best suited to do what it was created to do: snappy pop-punk songs that don't top 3:30 minutes, and don't have a seven minute video.

So This new album deals with two persons (Christian and Gloria) as they try to live in a fucked up world. It is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons" "Charlatans and Saints" and " Horseshoes and Handgrenades" but if you tell me these three acts are exactly alike. The Heroes are the Saints, the Horseshoes are the Heroes and the Saints, and the Cons are the Charlatans, and the Handgrenades are the Cons and Charlatans, but hey it's their damn title. Most of the reviews have been positive, but were we expecting anything less than 3 stars or a B+ grade? Nope, I knew no one would grade it truthfully. I'll just have to wait to get the album and review it.
But as of now I think this album will be the same as "American Idiot" bad and bloated, really bloated.