I always thought that Green Day's American Idiot was a parody of the show American Idol, I do not know if that was their intention of not, although it's the same in terms of meaning: The song refers to the apathy of people today, with main focus on the blind following of the media.
American Idiot
Lyrics
Don't wanna be an American idiot
Don't want a nation under the new mania
Hey can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind-fuck America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Well maybe I'm the faggot America
I'm not a part of a redneck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Don't wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information Age of hysteria
It's calling out to idiot America
Welcome to a new kind of tension
All across the alien nation
Where everything isn't meant to be okay
Television dreams of tomorrow
We're not the ones who're meant to follow
For that's enough to argue
Writer(s): Michael Ryan Pritchard, Frank Edwin III Wright, Billie Joe Armstrong
Copyright(s): Lyrics © Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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