Word: gd
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Billie Joe Armstrong’s self important new obsession with “politics” exposes him for the guy he wishes he had been on the last two GD records—an immature teenager trapped inside a thirty-something’s body. The anti-establishment imagery painted all over the album and its “backstory” aren’t very well reflected in the songs. Although this could have been a good development, they strangely vie to replace it with boring, disingenuous stories of teen angst and disenchantment. BJ seems...
...fishes-style, the publicity for a lame, tame series--in which telling Satan "Go to hell!" passes for a punch line--that a merciful deity would have let expire silently by April. Which raises a now familiar situation for a critic. You'd like to stand up for GD&B. Because that's your job, right? To defend viewers' free choice? To save misunderstood works of genius from the philistines? Except GD&B isn't a work of genius. It's just an inept sitcom that lucked into some free media...
...like South Park is, perversely, the most retro rarity on TV: an offensive and intelligent series, satirizing religion and society with proud coarseness (just as All in the Family did in its own way). South Park's bigoted, foulmouthed Eric Cartman may go to hell for it. But unlike GD&B's creators, he'll at least have something to show for his trip...