One Twitter user, said, “since it’s September now, here’s ur reminder to please not joke about the green day song ‘wake me up when September ends’ the song is about the singer’s father who died of cancer when he was a kid. Some fans think it’s cruel that people would continually remind the singer of such a difficult time in his life, trying to cut the memes off at the pass. “When the Easter bunny comes it’s like ‘Hey, it’s Easter’ or when September comes people go ‘Hey, it’s that guy in Green Day.’ Have fun but get a life at the same time.” “It’s like when Jesus was born on December 25 people go ‘Hey, it’s Christmas time,'” Billie said in an interview with Vulture. Given the song’s morose deeper meaning, many fans of the punk outfit claim the memes are insensitive – Armstrong himself wishes they would “get a life” from time to time. Armstrong said it took him a while to become emotionally ready to sing the deeply personal song.Įvery year come October 1, a horde of memes begin circulating around the internet joking that “someone needs to wake up Billie Joe.” Armstrong himself gets flooded with notifications across social media telling him to wake up as the song suggests. Though the song was written earlier, it had been close to 20 years since his father’s death when the band got around to recording the track.
It wasn’t like a negative emotion so much, but it was just kind of like honoring him.”
I kinda avoided writing about him for many years, and then finally having a breakthrough like that felt good. “I think it’s something that just stayed with me the month of September being that anniversary that always is just, I don’t know, kind of a bummer,” Armstrong told Stern. In an interview with the Howard Stern Show, Armstrong said the lyrics were inspired by the grief he now feels every time the month rolls around.
Some of the song’s first lines reference his late father and the time that has passed since his death. When his mother got home and knocked on the door to his room, he simply said, “Wake me up when September ends,” reportedly coming up with the title then and there. At the funeral, Armstrong cried, ran home, and locked himself in his room. Find out more about the song’s meaning below.įrontman Billie Joe Armstrong penned the lyrics to this song in the aftermath of his father’s death on September 10, 1982. The song has been used in many lights including as an advocacy piece in the anti-war movement and as a tribute to the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. The song went on to find global chart-topping success as a single and has become a trademark song for the group. Each song acts as a chapter in the main character becoming a steward for a new wave of anti-establishment punks.Īmong the tracklist is the somber offering, “Wake Me Up When September Ends,” written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong as an ode to his late father. The sweeping concept album follows the “Jesus of Suburbia”-a lower-middle-class anti-hero, expressing the dissent of a generation disillusioned by a period of tumultuous events such as 9/11 and the Iraq War.
Bass Comes in 1:47 seconds into the song.In 2004, Green Day released its eighth studio album American Idiot.
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