It has become as commonplace as it is boring: Every year at the beginning and end of September, Billie Joe Armstrong becomes a meme because of “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” a hit by Green Day. First it’s time to let the singer and guitarist go to sleep. Then you have to wake him up.
In 2023, the band themselves decided to join the wave and released a teaser on their social networks. The post includes a video of the frontman waking up and hitting snooze on his alarm clock, which appears to play a snippet of an unreleased song.
As a rooster crows, Armstrong sits looking at a calendar with the date “Tuesday, October 24” circled in red ink. The singer dives back into the covers as the track plays for a few more seconds.
The description says:
“It’s October 1st, wake up. Now go to theamericandreamiskillingme.com.”
Fans visiting the site are asked to click the “Snooze” button and provide their contact information To for a “wakeup call.”
Currently Green Day
Green Day’s most recent studio album, “Father of All Motherfuckers,” was released in February 2020. The “Hella Mega” tour with Fall Out Boy and Weezer was scheduled to begin the following month, but was postponed due to the progression of the pandemic. It finally kicked off in July 2021 and saw several soldout shows across the United States.
A 30th anniversary box set was recently released for “Dookie” (1994), the group’s most successful album. In addition to the original work, the package included demos, outtakes and live recordings from Woodstock ’94 and a show at the Garatge Club in Barcelona in June of that year.
About “Wake me up when September is over”
The fourth single from the album “American Idiot” (2004), “Wake Me Up When September Ends”, was written by Billie in reference to the death of her father, which occurred when the musician was 10 years old. The song peaked at number 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was certified platinum after selling more than a million copies.
It also acquired other meanings within local culture, serving as a tribute to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as those of Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans on August 30 and 31, 2005.
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