Posted on 05/09/2013 4:01:22 AM PDT by Biggirl
Green Day star Billie Joe Armstrong has taken aim at South Korean pop sensation Psy, calling the Gangham Style hitmaker the "herpes" of music.
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I guess Ol’ Billie means Psy is going to be with us for a long time. After all, Herpes is forever.
I concur however that means most other modern “music” is gonorrhea.
LOL! Sounds about right coming from Billie Joe. Love him live though. Green Day is a great band to see live.
Except “country and western!”
Well, that’s one way of putting it.
Years ago Billy declared himself bisexual. I bet he knows a lot about STDs.
The Pot calling the Kettle black!
That’s strong language coming from a guy who’s the equivalent of syphillis.
Green Day are has beens..... Next!!!!!
Sure about that?
So-called hasbeens have an amazing way of making “comebacks”.
I will be waiting for their 20 year American Idiot nostalgia tour. Okay?
Could the lead singer say in other words that rap or hip-hop is a “joke” to begin with?
I'm not a fan of Green Day and I'm familiar with only a handful of their songs but I do remember them being called a "flash in the pan" way back in the early 1990s when even those Nirvana people were still around.
Well the Green Day people are definitely having the last laugh and they continue to cash very large checks down at the bank.
Don't know anything about this "Psy" fellow except he apparently got a billion views on YouTube for some electronic "dance" number of his. Well, maybe that guy really is a flash in the pan. I guess we'll know for sure in 20 years. But I have a feeling that Green Day will still be doing concerts in 20 years regardless.
The Rolling Stones...now that is a band that hasn't had a creative thought for the past 30 years but they continue to tour and sell records for aging Baby Boomers at $200+ per ticket. I remember seeing the Rolling Stones on the 1981 tour at the L.A. Coliseum and even then they were considered a dinosaur rock band. At least back in 1981, they jumped around on stage a little bit and did not have too many wrinkles.
I don't know which is sadder: Some Korean guy getting a billion YouTube views for an electronic "dance" number or Mick Jagger at age 70 prancing around on stage to a bunch of toothless, drooling senior citizens trying to relive the 1960s.
Maybe he is right. And maybe Gaye nerD BJ Armstrong is the HIV of music. Too many celebrities live in echo chambers so much of the time they start to think their opinions are more valid than anyone else’s.
Green Day may be making bank, but Psy is more talented.
Green Day are pretty untalented, anti-American, and anti-Christian. Never had any one of their songs actually catch my ear.
Psy is closer to European techno than many of the so called American club stars. And if you are into that kind of thing, it is recognizable. If not, you will gladly move on and ignore it :)
He is also much like Kid Rock in his musical talents. I bought Psy’s CD when the song was first warming up, and the guy has talent.
I was sad to learn he had made such disparaging comments about Americans at some point in his life. But it doesn’t erase the fact, that for the music he composes/plays, he is pretty good.
Green Day sales to the anarchists, who believe their message and can thrash to their dead music.
Anything of “hip-hop”, which includes Psy, I disdain. Your posting say he is talented, but I beg to differ. He lacks talent IMHO.
Greed Day, NO FAN of them either, but I do love it when so-called talent goes after other so-called talent.
Give me country and western anytime!
You got it!
Like I say, you can only appreciate what you like :)
In the field of techno/dance music, Psy is talented.
In the field of punk rock, Green Day is not...
Now the Rolling Stones are legends, love them or hate them, they are legends even in their aging.
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