The punk front man and bandmaster stars in Green Day : Rock Band. Billie Joe Armstrong will now take your questions.
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Billie Joe is immortal. That's why he doesn't age.
TRUE
+gReeNDaY21x he wears a lot of makeup either way he doesn't actually look that young
...yeah though, he does look that young xD
Yaaaasssss!!!
I agree
I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who sucks at keeping eye contact when asked questions
Oliver Easton Ikr
i think that when i make eye contact with people im creeping them out..so that kinda makese me not do it..
Oliver Easton. usually when you don't do eye contact means you just throwing bunch of bullshit that comes out from your imaginary world.
Oliver Easton same
Oliver Easton something tells me he didnt really fancy the woman interviewing him, she went pretty flat on his joke he made starting the interview, every person does this when youre obligated talking to persons you dont like, no eye contact
It always amazes me how big of a change there is between his talking voice and his singing voice...
That is what i think everytime
KaptinSir I know right.
KaptinSir its because when he sings he uses his gut or also known as his false vocals, that's why there is that big of a difference. He doesn't sing with his regular vocals.
Taylor Tripp check out "stay the night acoustic" , it's closer to his talking voice.
His talking voice reminds me a bit of Gerard Way’s talking voice
Okay it's official, no one pulls off guyliner like Bille
girl with kaleidoscope eyes And Gee Way *cough cough*
alright, it's a tie, I'll grant you that
girl with kaleidoscope eyes Brendon Urie, Ryan Ross, Pete Wentz, Gerard Way
Mize | Ever heard of a typo?
looks like we both like the strokes lmao
22 y'knows in 6 minutes
XD
Lmao
+Caleb Bartlett dude calm down he didn't say it was a flaw i find it funny
"Ya knows" are better than "U feel me?" every 2 seconds....GREEN DAY ROCKS!
My Name is Not Skrillex. we love you Billie yknow
no billie, I don't know
Xd
This
At first I didn't get that but theeen
*"Ya know" Counter* 24 *24* Oh, Billie Joe XD
DesolationSkiesFallen Been watching their interviews since childhood and I blame him for how much I say "ya know" now. The worm crawls into your brain and can't leave
Emily Zajecka Same here! XD
MidnightCyanide It's 16
Vanessa Dorkó Oh, is it? I'll watch it again
Vanessa Dorkó I counted again, it was 24 XD
It's so cool, how now he's like , 40, but he still has a family on one hand, and a punk rock band, on another.
43
+Ivy Peterson He's 44 lol
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ShadowG4D yeah, as you can see i replied to someone else :) look closely before you correct someone who is not wrong
44
"Why do you never age?" He laughs nervously because he knows he's been exposed
He has the cutest talking voice! But it completely changes when he sings!😍
Helena Karlstrom right
Helena Karlstrom he kinda sounds like Gee.....(im assuming you know who Gee is based off of your name but just in case Gee is Gerard Way)
Y'know Helena is a real name
I agree *no homo*
Punctuation! Is impotant
Two immortal men: 1. Keannu Reeves 2. Billie Joe Armstrong
Pepperoni Cheese Gerald way
@@lparker2171 GERALD? HONEY NO. ITS GERARD. 😂😂😂
can u include Ian Somerhalder from the vampire diariesss🥰
@@gerardwayseyelash also mikey way
Paul rudd
Eye contact is amazing
Interviews are intimidating
anxiety makes life harder
True
I can't make eye contact with people even in normal conversation, it just feels weird and intimidating. I can talk to anyone about anything and speak fine without making eye contact, but man is it hard to make eye contact with people.
Ben Kurdziel Same, It must be worse for him in the situation imo, being interviewed like that.
NEW DRINKING GAME: Take a shot every time he says ya know!!!!
Vathe you'd puke after the 5th shot
Flying V nice profile pic.
Vathe you'll get alcohol poisoning
are you trying to kill me
Vathe rip
He never looks at the interviewer XD
Maybe it's social anxiety even though he's a performer and is around people all the time ya know. It's just a thought.
Katie Wells I'd have to wager that you're probably correct. One of the reasons he went off at the iheartradio thing was because he was doped up on anxiety and depression meds & booze
EVAgirl222 Because she is a bitch
Lol he is too shy
Sem Nome just stop.
it is so weird to listen to him without hearin a fuck in the middle of every sentence
Felipe Canullan truuu
Felipe Canullan ikr
He says y'know instead
This dude is 45, I work at the moda center and saw his concert this past week and he’s still running and jumping all over the stage 😂
it isn’t hard for someone 45 to run and jump hahah he’s not fukin 90
45 isn't that old
So God bless him
Now i need to hear 21 guns again.
Nishant Rawat waw. 21 likes.
One hundred, 21 likes!
He said "y'know" 21 times
shit i talk just like him. i cant focus on the person i am talking at and i look around cos i just i just cant
xx.green talking at?
"They're even better than the way I sing it" not possible
Billies hair looks like my cats fur.
Billiethepineapple Your profile pic is awesome. :3
Josie Carff thanks
oh god your profile picture is amazing
I want his hair style lol
Billiethepineapple your cat must be very fluffy😂
He says ya know a lot, ya know?
Gargano y'know?
Volker Hutzler | Ya know how he says "ya know" a lot? 'Cause he says it a lot, ya know?
Volker Hutzler I do know! Lmao!
Dattebayo
I don't know why but I like the way he says "Y'know" , y'know?
When i get older i will make my kids listen to Green Day every Saturday morning...and they WILL enjoy it.
Why not every morning?
Billie The Pinapple Why Not All Day Every Day?
Punk And Rock Bands Yup I agree.
Best mom ever.
Anberlinos Mal make them listen to it everyday!
He's such an awesome guy. He deserves to be everyone's roll model
Yeah, search "Billie Joe Meltdown"...
+Sergio Balaguera he had a right to be pissed they cut his show time so stupid usher can go up and sing. I myself would act as he did maybe even worse
+Emiley Taptiklis he had rights to be pissed but that was a bit too much,he was an alchoholic then
Check out matt bellamy. Hes a real nice and smart guy
Sophia Stiles y'know
He's like Gerard Way, he never ages
Holly Morgan i love you for this comment
Holly Morgan He sounds like him too
DesolationSkiesFallen sorry but no XD
Mason Upton I just mean his speaking voice, it sounds kinda like current day Gerard's voice. Their singing is drastically different XP
They don't age, their speaking voices sound the same, and their bands were v great friends. (R.I.P MCR tho)
y'know
😂😂😂😂
khaled madani he says ya'know a lot ya'know
Mia Gregory I know ya'know
i play the triangle..
i don't know ya'know
HE SOUNDS LIKE GERARD WAY MY MIND IS CONFUSED
MCR was great!
+Dylan Kessler you probably listened to their new music, they have pretty good music tbh. but yah it's your opinion
+Dylan Kessler he sounds similar when they talk not sing
+Dylan Kessler have you even heard Gerard lmao
he really does sound like him its so weird wow
The more time I spend learning about Billie Joe, the more I like him as a person.
same
Frrr
When he was saying about how all his songs show his emotions and they come from his heart, I was thinking where the hell did he get Kill The DJ from? Does he just hate DJs with a passion?!! 😂😂
+Whatsername101 My friends think I don't listen Green Day but they are soooooo wrong
+Whatsername101 Same
Kyra Peacock "Walking after dark, in the New York City park."
i love that song its the only green day song i can get my sister to willingly lisin to with out her calling it trash and saying my music sucks
its probably a nod to panic by the smiths
I love Billie's Non-Bullshit way of thinking
i fucking love this guy. I never liked his later albums as much as warning or nimrod but hes a true artist, something thats rare in the industry.
his eyeliner is perfect
take a shot every time billie says ya know
I would be hungover by the end of this vid
Yeah, you'd die of alcohol poisoning about a quarter of the way through... Xd
Generally Trash WTF vriska
Enjoy 24 shots
Or how about take a shot everytime someone comments about the fact that he says “ya know” a lot.
who cares about their fucking genre? its green day, their music is pure gold no matter what genre
Me: “I love Billie so much!!!” My friend: “I love Billie Ellish too!!” Me: no just no.... you don’t get it
Wow All the other comments are from like 4 years ago Also same lel
Funnily enough, both Billies are actually fans of each other's music
@@newworldorpheus551 I don’t count Billie as a fan of Green Day. It’s more just her brother lmao
@@avamichelle6126 kzhead.info/sun/d8qNkdGooZ6YlHA/bejne.html
@@FredrickTheMoose2007 yeah I watched it
also he mentioned the fountain of youth,is there a drought at it?
THERES A DROUGHT AT THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTHHHHH AND IM DEHYDRATED
Julia Pavese my tongue is swelling up and i say *insert violin solo* SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
+Ninja Cat I'm on a Wagon
+Fuck your Bookshelves I'm hitchin a ride( don't know where) hitchin a ride( don't know where)
Waflles - 3000 hey mister where you headed
If anything, green day has gotten more punk since 2001
Oryx The Taken Doomguy lyrically yeah if u cross out the trilogy and some love songs
Paolo Kasbani Who says punk can't have love songs? Does nobody remember new rose by the damned? That was a love song that was absolutely punk
I know most of the you have realized that this interview does not have 10 questions because it was shortened. This is the transcript for the full interview: Rebecca: Why did "Green Day" decide to do a "Rock Band" game? Billie Joe: It was a new way of getting our music out there. Formats are constantly changing, and there are really no rules for the way you put your records out anymore. There are also so many people who are gamers. I am not, but I have played the drums [in "Rock Band"], and I am terrible. Rebecca: How do you respond to people saying that "Green Day" is not punk anymore? Have you changed your style in response to naysayers? Billie Joe: Our main goal is to write great songs, and that comes before genre. The thing about punk is that in any genre of music whether if it is punk, or blues, or jazz, or straight up rock and roll, there is purist on every side. So once you start getting outside of that, then they do not think what you are necessarily doing is quote on quote Punk rock. But for me, I want to be a great songwriter. So my range of songwriters, my favorites, goes anywhere from a band like the "Sex Pistols" all the way to Lennon-McCartney. That is what "Green Day" is. There are no rules. Rebecca: What do you think about the current state of punk rock? Billie Joe: There are always young bands playing in their garages. A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It is below the radar. The beauty of it is that you are not supposed to always know. It is subterranean. Rebecca: What makes you want to have a Broadway musical adaptation of "American Idiot"? Billie Joe: When we were first doing "American Idiot" and while we were making it, we always thought it was something very theatrical and it had a storyline to it. So we always thought it should be staged somehow whether it would be in the theater or would it be in something else. We really did not know how it was going to come up. So when Michael Mayer did a musical called "Spring Awakening", when he called, we took that call immediately. Rebecca: What is it like to be seeing your songs on stage? Billie Joe: It has been surreal. It has been amazing to hear the different voices, especially women to sing your songs. I did not really know that women can sound really that good singing your songs. They are even better than the way I sing them. So it was just great to see the story that you had in your head that was in the record for a minute and then suddenly it is on stage acted right in front of you and it was kind of like seeing the whole thing coming from fruition. It is like “This is what we have started with which was the album and now there is a stage production with the storyline” and it is pretty amazing. Rebecca: How did your band get its name? Billie Joe: I wrote a song called "Green Day" because I was smoking a lot of dope. Our drummer put "Green Day" on his jacket and said, "Maybe we should call the band that." And I said, "That is a good idea." We used to be called "Sweet Children". Rebecca: How do you create a setlist for live shows? Billie Joe: Setlists are tough because you come up with this structure of how the songs are going to go from one to the next, but at the same time, you have to be spontaneous and take requests and change the setlist at the drop of a hat. Rebecca: A while ago, in "Behind the Music" on "MTV", you said you regretted signing to a major record label. What do you think now? Billie Joe: I have no regrets at all. I did not know what head space I was in [when I said that]. Back then, I had a lot of time to reflect on my life and career. But no, I do not regret signing to a major. It was the right thing to do, and we have had no problems. Rebecca: Do you think that musicians have a responsibility to try to have a social or political message in their music? Billie Joe: I think that the only people that should have responsibility for singing about social issues or politics or anything like that are the ones that are not full of shit about it or the ones that are not preaching. If you are going to write a political song, it has got to come from the same place that you would write a love song. It cannot be some empty rhetoric where you are involved in a bunch of finger-pointing. You have to have yourself involved in it. So when it is like I have that song that says “Don’t want to be an American Idiot”, I am talking about myself and what is going on in my country at the same time and how I fit into it and how I feel alienated from it at the same time. So, it is self-deprecating, but it is also trying to empower yourself. Rebecca: What bands have influenced you? Billie Joe: When I first started getting into music that mattered for me, I would say that a lot of Minneapolis bands like "Hüsker Dü" and "The Replacements". Then after that, "The Ramones" and then the local punk rock scene that we came from in Berkeley which was bands like "Operation Ivy" and "Crimpshrine" and this great record compilation called "Turn It Around" which was like the first sort of wave of the "Gilman Street" punk band that was coming out of there. So, that was a pretty big record for me. Rebecca: Why do you never seem to age? Billie Joe: (Laughs) Age? Oh, I age. I definitely age every single day as this time goes on, I am aging. As soon as it is there, it would be in the past. So, I think trying to mentally keep yourself in a place where you still have excitement in your life and you are always in awe and you always have that thing about you of where you are dreaming the next dream and never resting on your laurels and not going through emotions and that is to me, that is the Fountain of Youth. I mean, it has nothing to do with the wrinkles on your face or how fat you get or if you get gray hair. It is just your zest for life.
he and gerard way sound really similar when they talk i'm so uncomfortable
+IanN12 so true
ikr its so weird
They must be twins!!!!!! :O
+Phantom Falcon or maybe they're the same person
That's so true omg. I don't know how to feel about this
"Dreaming the next dream" powerful words, Billie. Actually his answer to the last question was indeed an inspirational
Who’s here since the Hella Mega tour was announced?
Untill about 2 months ago, and I saw Green Day live in the summer, I thought Billie Joe was like, 20 a lot, 30 and a few... I found out he is 41!
My cousins thought he was like 18. So proud of them
hehe their vibrance kinda makes you forget that they've been together as a band for more than 20 years :P
I have so much respect for him. And not just him, all the members of Green Day. They are the reason that I started playing guitar and I am so passionate about music. Before I heard of them I didn't realize how beautiful music was. Thank you Green Day
4:57 his laughter is one of the best things ever
New drinking game: Take a shot every time Billie says "y'know"
Ali Rafiei do you want people to die??!
Any one would be drunk in the first two minutes
My google history is now: Giant rubber duck amazon, Billie Joe Armstrong cutout Amazon, how to not die from a hangover
I counted the yknow’s and this man somehow managed to say yknow 23 times during a 6 minute interview
Billie Joe was almost 40 years old in this interview.... He legit looks 25 at most
8 years later and Billie still looks incredibly young. Love him!
@Gerard Way and Billie Joe Armstrong WHY DO YOU NEVER AGE AND WHY DO YOU SOUND THE SAME
Because Gérard is actually young. Gérard is a big fan so he tries to sound like Billie
+Noah Garfield Gerard is 39, he's not that young.
lol Yeah i guess..He just turned 39 and he is 5 years younger than Billie.As a band though MCR is decades younger.
WHY ARE YOU EVERYWHERE OMGG
when they sing they didnt sound the same.
his hair looks so good
y'know y'know y'know
I know
When he said "Age!?!" after last question, I was sure that he will say: "-Age?!? What is it?"
Billie Joe Armstrong is an amazing person.I'm so happy for him
Nearly 40 years of green day sad I have only been alive for 11 of them
More like 30
4:59 Awkward blinking -_- '_'-_-
Explain how blinking is awkward :/ I never knew such a thing could actually exist. Can I sip my tea, or write awkwardly, too?
Alejandro Michael yes you can
Alejandro Michael 4:59
There needs to be a song with BJA and Gerard Way. Like seriously this has to happen, cmon Warner, make it happen ! :)
Canadiana O can we just ban MCR fans from listening to green day
No they're entirely different music style and Gerald way gave up on music
Punk Thot 'Gerald Way' BITCH DID YOU JUST
And have a speaking part so we can’t tell who’s talking
I've always thought about Green Day as a mix of Sex Pistols and The Beatles. Anyone who have listened a lot of Pistols and Beatles can recognize influence of both in Green Day's songs. In this video Billie Joe confirmed that. Green Day are the best join of The Beatles and Sex Pistols in their unique way and I just love them.
Rick hickd There's no accounting for taste. But you should behave yourself and at least be polite when you talk to other people. If insulting is the only thing you're capable of, I feel sorry for you.
+SimbaOS get your facts straight...sex pistols is punk...greengay is hollywood mtv bullshit....
+Rick hickd I didn't say they are. I'm just saying - behave yourself. Who do you thin you are to talk to others like you did? An in my initial comment I said that Green Day sounds like a mixture of Sex Pistols and The Beatles to me. You can disagree, but that doesn't give you the right to be insolent.
And once again - there's no accounting for taste. Someone like, someone dislike. There's no right and wrong when it comes to taste.
Greengay sucks
1: whY does he should like gErard Way 2: hiS hAir is so fLuffy
Man u should see how Billie Looks like in 2020 he looks like a American Dad trucker
He’s so cuteee 🥺🥺
Oh yes he is 😅...him your favorite?
hes ssoooooo cutey babby litel skrunkle scribbly do ❤double tap now if you skrunkly the when🎉😊🕊️
I love how he's always saying *yknow*
Having seen them in 1993/1994 as a buncha amazingly talented unknown hard partying punks, it’s great to see he’s so solid, super smart, seems like a nice guy.
I'm not concerned with whether or not Green Day is still purely "punk". All I care about is the music and if it speaks to me or not, and Green Day consistently keeps me listening :) They've been around before I was even born. I'm 21 now and just saw them in concert a few nights ago and it was incredible.
Billie is so handsome
Listen and look at this man, he’s about as straight as my spine and I have severe scoliosis. And we love him for that!
I just love how honest and open-minded he is.
"I age, i definitely age, every single day." This interview is from 10 years ago. He fucking looks the same
he sits like a little kid who was forced to apologize for being rude at the dinner table. I love him!
hes such a perfect person
4:56 the best and cutest laugh ever❤and the best question too
I have been listening to green day and watching their live dvds for years and i completly forgot that Billie would have an american accent.. . can't hear it at all in the songs
he actually sounds kind of British in some stuff, I genuinely thought green day was british.
He has such a soothing voice
omgahhhhd he's so beautiful.Eveytime the camera catches his eyes my heart skips a beat!
I love Billie Joe Armstrong!!! You rock!!!😘😝😎
That laugh at 4:57 tho 💙
Omg he seems so humble, so sweet
he says a lot of "y'know" in the interviews. i love him
I love how he connected ageing to mature and like mentally ageing than actual physical ageing 🤣
Ya know I just ya know and Ya Know it's really ya know so ya know like ya know ?
"Ya know" he's so cute I love him😂😂💓
Minneapolis is my home town! We always got love for GREEN DAY!
Holy shit! The 2 questions from the US are from Kentucky? I think that's a sign that Green Day needs to come back to Louisville! Especially considering the fact that they've only been here one other time, during the American Idiot Tour.
Billie Boy said Y'know exactly 25 times in this interview. How do I know? I put little tally marks down every time he said it, Y'know.
I counted 28
It's September 2019 and I am only experiencing Green Day for the first time as back in the day I graphed in with bands such as The Who, Mr. Springsteen, Ray Charles, U2, Elvis and many of the band's that made it to Cleveland. Music died for me a few years back and their 'raw punk' audio adrenaline, symbolic facade and lyrical discourse have ignited and resurrect my hearts passion for music. Perplexing to revisit my personal playlist and re-evaluate and reorganize this history. Their contributions will be passed on with importance.
"If you're gonna write a political song, it has to come from the same place as where you'd write a love song" I love this
Holly cow he sounds completely different from when he sings
I don't like the band/the music they make, youtube just kinda brought me here and I have to say as a person he seems pretty great and authentic
Him and his band are fabulous
+Green_Day LIFE yes
His answers are so straight up it’s amazing
I can never get I've the difference if his singing voice and talking voice. It's amazing. I love it. And him
This damn reporter acts like she is too good to interview Billie or something...
No. But Billie did seem uncomfortable around her. I noticed he didnt look her in the eyes while speaking and when he joked around in the beginning he turned his attention to the dudes in the back.
Billie's too good to get interviewed by her
He may have social anxiety. Just because he's famous doesn't mean he's great at interviews or talking to people in general
Yeah she is like "ok i am here...let's do this quickly"
The thing is that the reporter was expecting to talk to a full man who would turn her on a bit, but he actually is bisexual so she ends up disappointed about that.
'Age?... I age... Like this time's going on I'm aging' Billie... are you fuckin' kidding us??😏😏😏 Shut up, you're not aging at all...
Awww his little giggle - what a bean
How is it possible that 7 years from that interview it still feels real, it still feels present and future?
Why is he like so bae ya know
The lady looked like she had a crush on Billie Joe
She is absolutely drop dead gorgeous!!
Every day being in awe of something. Right on! I'm the same age as Billy Joe. I was a punk in Minnesota listening to the Replacements as a teen. I think punks are punks because of being in awe of things. We let ourselves feel. We get into the minutia of things and let ourselves be amused and fascinated.
But 21 guns is from the album 21st Century breakdown?
yeah, it is why?
does he ever make eyecontact with the woman?
Trust me, doing interviews while making eyecontact it's really hard for some people. Me included.
Love BJA's responses, esp. to the last question. Diet, sleep, nutrition are important to aging well -- but the key is having a purpose in life.
billie has such a beuatiful soul