Green Day - Father of All Motherfuckers

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Given that George W Bush’s presidency so enraged Green Day they recorded 2004’s American Idiot in reaction, one could be forgiven for thinking that Father of All Motherfuckers might be a nod to the Trump era. Yet their 13th album is startlingly apolitical, more concerned with youthful angst and romance – or, as frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has said, “the lifestyle of not giving a fuck”. Which is all very well, but there is something wearying about hearing a 47-year‑old man singing the none-more-tautologous I Was a Teenage Teenager.

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