unless you're talking about green day. ♪. ♪ ♪ >> don't want to be an american idiot >> you can't under sell how shocking it was that the definitive statement on george bush's america came from green day. ♪. ♪. ♪ it was kind of like a rock opera, you had to listen to it from front to back. he told the entire story of what was going on in the decade. >> wake me up when september ends. >> the fear of terrorism, the media, wars people being sent off to fight. >> rock wasn't all that surprising in the 2000s when you got something like american idiot, it was wow, this is unexpected. is this shaking things up a little bit. wake me up when september ends.