What’s Worth Fighting For?
21st Century Breakdown — Green Day’s lesser-known rock opera masterpiece
The ‘21st Century Breakdown’ album is Green Day’s follow-up to ‘American Idiot’
It’s the less-remembered (usually) of these two incredible 00’s rock operas.
The story follows star-crossed lovers Christian and Gloria as they graduate high school, and are released into an America where society is crumbling — full of charlatans and cons using politics and religion for their own benefit.
Christian and Gloria’s lives are pulled apart by a lack of prospects, an apathetic state, snake-oil religious leaders, and various eruptions of fires and riots.
‘I’m wide awake after the riots
This demonstration of our anguish
This empty laughter has no reason
Like a bottle of your favorite poison
We are the last call and we’re so pathetic’
