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About This Track
“Holiday” released as the third single off of Green Day’s seventh studio album American Idiot (2004). Though the song is a prelude to “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”, “Holiday” was released as a single later on, in the spring of 2005. The song achieved considerable popularity across the world and performed moderately well on the charts. In the U.S., it reached number nineteen on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Hot Modern Rock Tracks and Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks charts. It debuted at number eleven in the UK and at number twenty-one in Canada.
“Holiday” features a spoken word segment during the bridge that is unique to Green Day songs. While it caused controversy, this speech is generally regarded as anti-fascist, with Green Day accusing George W. Bush of being a fascist.
During live performances, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong liked to introduce this song with a political agenda, or alternatively, a disclaimer. For example, on Green Day’s CD/DVD Bullet in a Bible (2005), Armstrong announces, “This next song’s a big ‘fuck you’ to all the politicians. This song’s called Holiday! This song is not anti-American; it’s anti-war!” Which some consider to be similar to the way in which Bono of U2 would introduce “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; “This is not a rebel song…”.
“Holiday” was played in the movie Accepted and parts of the song were played in the movie Surf’s Up. The song is also featured in the video game Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland.
“Holiday” features a spoken word segment during the bridge that is unique to Green Day songs. While it caused controversy, this speech is generally regarded as anti-fascist, with Green Day accusing George W. Bush of being a fascist.
During live performances, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong liked to introduce this song with a political agenda, or alternatively, a disclaimer. For example, on Green Day’s CD/DVD Bullet in a Bible (2005), Armstrong announces, “This next song’s a big ‘fuck you’ to all the politicians. This song’s called Holiday! This song is not anti-American; it’s anti-war!” Which some consider to be similar to the way in which Bono of U2 would introduce “Sunday Bloody Sunday”; “This is not a rebel song…”.
“Holiday” was played in the movie Accepted and parts of the song were played in the movie Surf’s Up. The song is also featured in the video game Tony Hawk’s American Wasteland.
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SargentAwsome wrote:
rule #1 of the universe BILLIE JOE FUCKING RULES!!!
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falk-a wrote:
when I think of GD, I think of Holiday at first <3
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SUPERZENIT wrote:
Крутяк
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Fakexxxx wrote:
Amazing song.
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kurtnirvanakris wrote:
i love this song
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RulezForAnarchy wrote:
cant stop this song!
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cokiekillercore wrote:
¬ loves it ¬ N Jychelle N
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tomduarte wrote:
my first favorite song
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GeekyTikki wrote:
PLEASE DON'T READ THIS. YOU WILL BE KISSED ON THE NEAREST POSSIBLE FRIDAY BY THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE.TOMORROW WILL BE THE BEST DAY OF YOUR LIFE. NOW YOU'VE STARTED READING THIS. DON'T STOP. THIS IS SO FREAKY. 1. say your name 10 times 2. say your mom's name 5 times 3. say your crushes name 3 times 4. paste this to 4 other songs. if you do this, your crush will kiss you on the nearest Friday. but if you read this and do not paste this, then you will have very bad luck. SEND THIS TO 5 SONGS IN 143 MINUTES. WHEN YOU'RE DONE PRESS F6 AND YOUR CRUSH'S NAME WILL APPEAR IN BIG LETTERS ON THE SCREEN. THIS IS SO FREAKY BECAUSE IT ACTUALLY WORK
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BrenoLeonardo wrote:
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ahundredegrees wrote:
classic [2]
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JuanFSRodriguez wrote:
GD sucess
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StereoRiptide wrote:
Say!! Hey!! ♥ Green Day is 10yrs older than me? Oh that's right, I didn't notice because they age backwards.
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VampirezHeart wrote:
❥❥❥❥
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GREENDAYLOVER21 wrote:
Love The end dont you
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oneupsalesman wrote:
Pretty good, eh?
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Servant_of_Evil wrote:
My favorite song of Green day.
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ilovecl0wnz wrote:
i can't turn down green day. not at all. (:
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AlexRock-15 wrote:
Holidaaaay ! ♥♥♥
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shuffle1899 wrote:
fucking amazing.
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