Green Day
Minority (Reprise)
If you watched Walking With Dinosaurs, you'll know that the only real
aaah factor of the Jurassic period was provided by some small, endearingly
dog-like creatures that pair-bonded for life and lived in burrows. Unfortunately,
their days were numbered. Unable to fight the new lizard breed, they were driven
from their burrows into waiting dinosaur jaws, and eventually, they disappeared.
Just one of a billion blips on the evolutionary scale, really - but oddly
poignant as you listen to Green Day's new single. "I
don't need your authority/Down with the moral majority/I wanna be a
minority", shouts Billie Joe, and you can't help wondering if his
wish to be marginalised will be granted sooner than he thinks. Never mind that
the chorus is supposed to be a 'singalong' challenge to conformity - as logical
as having free heroin as a challenge to drug abuse - 'Minority' can only
be described as a folk-punk stomp, the kind of thing even the Levellers
might taunt with sticks.
In these post-Korn, post-Bizkit times,
there's a sense that this is the work of some mammalian prototype, rather than
the hard-bodied killers of our brave new world. Run, Green Day! Run
free!
Victoria Segal
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