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21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album by the American punk rock band Green Day. It is the band's second rock opera, following American Idiot, and their first album to be produced by Butch Vig. Green Day commenced work on the record in January 2006. Forty-five songs were written by singer and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong by October 2007, but the band members did not enter studio work with Vig until January 2008. The writing and recording process spanned three years and four California recording studios and was finished in April 2009.

21st Century Breakdown was released May 15, 2009 through Reprise Records. Armstrong has described the album as a "snapshot of the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us, whether it be the government, religion, media or frankly any form of authority".[1] The singles, "Know Your Enemy" and "21 Guns" exemplify the themes of alienation and politically-motivated anger present in the record.

Critical response to 21st Century Breakdown was generally positive. Critics praising the album considered the composition and Armstrong's lyrics a success; skeptical reviewers were critical of the album's concept, describing it as vague and directionless. The record achieved Green Day's best chart performance to date by reaching number one on the album charts of various countries, including the United States Billboard 200, the European Top 100 Albums, and the United Kingdom Albums Chart. It was awarded the Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at the 52nd Grammy Awards held on January 31, 2010. As of November, 2010 21st Century Breakdown has sold 997,000 copies in the United States[2] and more than 3.5 million worldwide.

Writing and recording

Green Day began to write new songs for what would become 21st Century Breakdown in January 2006 after touring extensively in 2005 in support of their seventh studio album American Idiot.[3] At the time, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stated, "We'll start with silence, and that's how we'll be able to find the inspiration to find another record."[4] The band did not release any details of the writing and recording process until October 2007, when Armstrong said in an interview with Rolling Stone that he had written "something like 45 songs".[5][6] The band members worked on the primitive conceptual stages of the album at their rehearsal studio in Oakland, California. Little was revealed on the themes or musical style of the album, but Armstrong pointed out, "I want to dig into who I am and what I'm feeling at this moment – which is middle-aged." He added that many of the 45 songs were written on piano rather than guitar.[5]

Green Day began the recording process for 21st Century Breakdown in January 2008.[7] Later that year, it was confirmed that the band worked with producer Butch Vig.[8] The album was recorded with Vig throughout 2008 and into early 2009 at four different locations: Ocean Way Recording in Hollywood, California, Studio 880 in Oakland, California, Jel Studios in Newport Beach, California, and Costa Mesa Studios in Costa Mesa, California.[9] While recording in Hollywood, the band members bought cheap turntables from Amoeba Music and listened to many vinyl records for inspiration, including albums by The Beat and The Plimsouls.[10] Armstrong cited as inspiration the music of The Kinks' Ray Davies, The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow, The Doors' The Doors and Strange Days, and Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell.[10] Drummer Tré Cool noted the influence of Eddie Cochran and The Creation on Armstrong's writing.[10]

While writing at his home studio, Armstrong worked on a cover of The Who's 1966 mini-opera "A Quick One, While He's Away"; Green Day recorded a full-band version of the song during the album sessions.[11] Vig noted that frustrations would sometimes cause delays in the recording process for 21st Century Breakdown.[6] Armstrong kept his lyrics closely guarded and intentionally mixed his demos so that the vocals were low in the mix and thus unintelligible to the other band members.[10] It was not until late 2008 that he chose to share his words with Cool, Vig, and bassist Mike Dirnt by sitting down with them and reading the entire album's lyrics aloud in order.[10] The band members made the finishing touches on the album in early April 2009 and claimed that its release would lead to a "kind of... post-partum depression".[12]

Themes and composition

I look at Christian and Gloria, and it's me. Gloria is one side: this person trying to hold on to this sense of belief, still trying to do good. Whereas Christian is deep into his own demons and victimizing himself over that.[10]

Billie Joe Armstrong, on the link between the two main protagonists of 21st Century Breakdown and himself

21st Century Breakdown continues the rock opera style of its predecessor, American Idiot.[13] The album is divided into three acts: "Heroes and Cons", "Charlatans and Saints", and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades" and is set in Detroit, Michigan.[14] Its loose narrative follows a young couple named Christian and Gloria through the challenges present in the U.S. following the presidency of George W. Bush.[15] Bassist Mike Dirnt has compared the relationships between the songs to those in Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run, saying that the themes are not as tightly interwoven as in a concept album, but that they are still connected.[16] Many of the record's themes and lyrics are drawn from Armstrong's personal life and he sings in the first-person narrative style about abandonment and vengeance in "Before the Lobotomy", "Christian's Inferno", and "Peacemaker".[10] Rolling Stone noted that the album is "the most personal, emotionally convulsive record Armstrong has ever written".[10]

The title track's opening lyric "Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell" references Armstrong's birth year of 1972, while "We are the class of '13" references the fact that his eldest son, Joseph, will graduate from high school in 2013.[10] Dirnt has expressed his belief that "Last of the American Girls" was written about Armstrong's wife Adrienne, who he claimed is steadfast in her beliefs and assertively defends them.[10] Armstrong has cited his "disconnected" childhood—he was raised by his five older siblings after their father's death, while their mother worked graveyard shifts as a waitress—as the roots of the discontent expressed on 21st Century Breakdown.[10] "East Jesus Nowhere" rebukes fundamentalist religion and was written after Armstrong attended a church service where a friend's baby was baptized.[10]

Musically, 21st Century Breakdown is similar to the punk rock style of American Idiot,[17][18] but many critics have claimed that Green Day's traditional sound has evolved in the five years since their last release to incorporate new influences such as heavier, louder pop rock and stadium rock on an epic scale.[19][20] Rob Sheffield of Rolling Stone indicated that the album sports ballads that are Green Day's most polished; he claimed that the band "combine punk thrash with their newfound love of classic-rock grandiosity".[17] MTV compared the material to that of classic rockers like The Who,[21] while Spin called the title track "Green Day's most epic song yet".[22] Cool has remarked, "It's important to us that we're still looked at as a punk band. It was our religion, our higher education", but has noted that Armstrong had delved into the past in writing 21st Century Breakdown by gleaning inspiration from the artists who shaped rock music.[10] Armstrong himself has stated, "Ground zero for me is still punk rock. I like painting an ugly picture. I get something uplifting out of singing some of the most horrifying shit you can sing about. It's just my DNA."[10]

Promotion and release

Green Day performing in a 21st Century Breakdown showcase concert at the Kesselhaus, Berlin, May 7, 2009

On February 9, 2009, Green Day announced the album title and that the record would be split into three acts: "Heroes and Cons", "Charlatans and Saints", and "Horseshoes and Handgrenades".[23] On March 17, a teaser trailer for 21st Century Breakdown was posted on the band's website.[24] The international release date of May 15 was announced on March 25.[25] In early April 2009, Green Day premiered "Know Your Enemy" on television; a portion of the song was used as introductory music to the 2009 NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament Championship game.[26] The band first performed 21st Century Breakdown in full during a string of California club shows in April 2009.[27][28] At each show, concertgoers were given programs containing all of the album's lyrics.[28] The first single, "Know Your Enemy", was released on April 16,[29] and the world premiere of the song's music video occurred on April 24 on the MTV UK website.[30]

21st Century Breakdown was released internationally on May 15, 2009, through Reprise Records.[31] The special edition vinyl version was limited to 3,000 copies and consisted of three 10" records, one for each of the album's "acts", a CD copy of the album, a 60-page art booklet, and a code for the digital download of the full album.[32][33] The album artwork process was led by Chris Bilheimer and is based on a work from artist Sixten, who confirmed that the couple on the cover were "just friends of a friend at a party in Eskilstuna, Sweden" and explained that a mutual friend snapped a picture of the pair kissing.[34] He added, "I love their passion, and just had to make a stencil out of it to spread the love."[34] The cover art was noted for a marked similarity with that of Blur's 2003 album Think Tank, itself a stencil by artist Banksy.[35] Green Day showcased a collection of similarly themed art, called "The Art of Rock", at an art exhibition in London between October 23 and November 1, 2009.[36]

The record reached number one on the Billboard 200 in the U.S., where it sold 215,000 copies in its first week, which was a shortened three days.[37] The album remained at number one on the Billboard Top Rock Albums chart for three weeks.[38] It debuted at the top of sales charts in twenty four countries,[37] including a peak of number one on the European Top 100 Albums.[39] 21st Century Breakdown was only released in a Parental Advisory version containing explicit lyrics and content; Wal-Mart refuses to sell albums with a Parental Advisory sticker and requested that Green Day release a censored edition. The band members responded by stating, "There's nothing dirty about our record... They want artists to censor their records in order to be carried in there. We just said no. We've never done it before. You feel like you're in 1953 or something."[40] The second single, "21 Guns", was released to radio stations on May 25.[41] The band embarked on a world tour in July 2009; the North American leg lasted through September and the European leg ended in November.[27] "East Jesus Nowhere" was released as the album's third single on October 19, 2009.[42][43]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[44]
Robert Christgau(C)[45]
Entertainment Weekly(B)[46]
Los Angeles Times[47]
NME(8/10)[48]
The Observer[49]
Pitchfork Media(4.8/10)[50]
Rolling Stone[17]
Slant Magazine[51]
Spin[52]

Media reception to 21st Century Breakdown was generally favorable; aggregating website Metacritic reported a rating of 70 percent in July 2009 based on 30 critical reviews.[53] Dan Silver of The Observer awarded the record four stars out of five and likened it to both Bruce Springsteen's music and the avant-garde writing of Chuck Palahniuk.[49] Rolling Stone's David Fricke called 21st Century Breakdown "a compound bomb of classic-rock ecstasy, no-mercy punk assault and pop-song wiles; it's like The Clash's London Calling, The Who's Quadrophenia and Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade all compressed into 18 songs".[6] Dan Cairns of The Times concluded, "Lyrically, it may succeed in capturing the contradictions, vulnerabilities and longing for harmony that thrum through Armstrong, Dirnt and Cool, their country, and humanity as a whole. But its real triumph, in an age of trimming, of market testing, of self-censorship and lowest common denominators, is not simply to aim insanely high, but to make it to the summit."[54]

Criticism centered on the concept of the record; BBC's Chris Jones said that it is "griping vaguely against 'authority' " and that "too many buzz words obscure incisive meaning".[55] Steve Kandell of Spin wrote that the humor of American Idiot was "sorely missed" and that the energy of the album seemed "directionless".[52] The Guardian's Alexis Petridis indicated that "the storyline becomes impossible to follow".[20] Adam Downer of Sputnikmusic was the most critical professional reviewer of the album and questioned the clarity of the lyrics by calling 21st Century Breakdown "more conceptually vague/ridiculous than American Idiot"; he went on to say that it "spirals out of control in its own heroic glory and never regains focus, thus ending with a product that Green Day couldn’t afford to produce: an average record".[56]

Accolades

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Rolling Stone United States Best Albums of 2009[57] 2009 5
Kerrang! United Kingdom Reader's Choice: Best 50 Albums of the 21st Century [58] 2009 17
Rhapsody United States The 25 Best Albums of 2009[59] 2009 16

Album awards

Ceremony Award Country Year Result
52nd Grammy Awards Grammy Award for Best Rock Album USA 2009 won
Teen Choice Awards Music Album Group nominated
TMF Awards Best International Album Belgium
Kerrang! Awards Best Album United Kingdom
MTV Video Music Awards Japan Album of the Year Japan 2010
NME Best Album United Kingdom
Worst Album

Songs awards

Ceremony Work Award Year Result
52nd Grammy Awards "21 Guns" Grammy Award for Best Rock Song 2009 nominated
Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal
MuchMusic Video Awards "Know Your Enemy" Best International Group Video
2009 MTV Video Music Awards "21 Guns" Best Rock Video won
MTV Video Music Award for Best Direction
MTV Video Music Award for Best Cinematography
MTV Video Music Awards Japan "Know Your Enemy" Best Rock Video 2010 nominated
MuchMusic Video Awards "21 Guns" Best International Group Video
Teen Choice Awards "Know Your Enemy" Music Rock Track

Track listing

All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong; all music is composed by Green Day

No.TitleLength
1."Song of the Century"0:57
Act I: Heroes and Cons
No.TitleLength
2."21st Century Breakdown"5:09
3."Know Your Enemy"3:11
4."¡Viva la Gloria!"3:31
5."Before the Lobotomy"4:37
6."Christian's Inferno"3:07
7."Last Night on Earth"3:57
Act II: Charlatans and Saints
No.TitleLength
8."East Jesus Nowhere"4:35
9."Peacemaker"3:24
10."Last of the American Girls"3:51
11."Murder City"2:54
12."¿Viva la Gloria? (Little Girl)"3:48
13."Restless Heart Syndrome"4:21
Act III: Horseshoes and Handgrenades
No.TitleLength
14."Horseshoes and Handgrenades"3:14
15."The Static Age"4:17
16."21 Guns"5:21
17."American Eulogy" (A. "Mass Hysteria" / B. "Modern World")4:26
18."See the Light"4:36
Total length:69:16

Bonus tracks

All lyrics are written by Billie Joe Armstrong; all music is composed by Green Day, except where noted

Amazon.com MP3 version
No.TitleLength
19."Burnout" (live)2:21
iTunes deluxe edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
19."A Quick One, While He's Away" (originally performed by The Who)Pete Townshend7:59
20."Another State of Mind" (originally performed by Social Distortion)Mike Ness2:46
iTunes pre-order edition
No.TitleWriter(s)Length
21."That's All Right" (originally performed by Elvis Presley)Arthur Crudup2:01
22."Like a Rolling Stone" (originally performed by Bob Dylan)Bob Dylan6:10
Japanese edition
No.TitleLength
19."Lights Out"2:16
Rhapsody version
No.TitleLength
19."Know Your Enemy" (live)4:47
20."The Static Age" (live)4:30
Target version bonus CD (Live in Japan)
No.TitleLength
1."American Idiot" (live)4:18
2."Jesus of Suburbia" (live)9:22
3."Holiday" (live)4:34
4."Are We the Waiting" (live)2:49
5."St. Jimmy" (live)2:58
6."Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (live)4:41

Personnel

Release history

Region Date Label Format Catalog
World May 15, 2009 Warner Music Digital download —
United States Reprise CD, double LP 517153[44]
United Kingdom Warner Music CD 9362-49802-1[60]
Europe
Australia 9362498021[61]
Deluxe CD 9362497777[61]
May 29, 2009 LP 9362497853[61]

Chart performance

Preceded by UK Albums Chart number one album
May 17, 2009 – May 24, 2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Japanese Oricon Albums Chart number one albums
May 25, 2009 – June 1, 2009
Preceded by Billboard 200 number-one album
May 30, 2009
Preceded by European Top 100 Albums number-one album
June 6, 2009 – June 27, 2009 		Succeeded by
Preceded by Italian Albums Chart number-one album
May 15, 2009 – May 22, 2009 		Succeeded by

Notes

  • Fricke, David (May 28, 2009). "Green Day Fights On". Rolling Stone. pp. 48–50.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)

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