Music has caused a lot of impact throughout history and more recent times are not the exception. One of the most influential rock bands in the world is Green Day, they have proven to be not only talented with their music but also a voice of protests and realization to problems that at the moment where happening, helping people not only to make them aware of the problems but inspired people to do something, they pointed out problems and suggested a solution.

The band was founded in 1986 and has lived till today, so they have lived the transition of millennium and paid attention, they paid attention to the problems in the emerging new millennium and thought about it, then they wrote songs about the problems and found major success. In the albums Twenty first century breakdown and  American idiot they spoke of problems emerging in the early 2000 like the reelection of Bush and the war of Iraq, one of the songs in the album American idiot actually contains a section which is supposed to be a representative from the people of California who makes a direct protest to the war and the suppression of any campaign protesting against said war.

The songs that green day has made in the albums American idiot and twenty first century breakdown are directed to the new generation of 21st century kids who are to grow with the conflicts of the past and are raised by older generations. The song 21st century breakdown states “I praise liberty The freedom to obey” and taking into account that the song is a first person narrative where the narrator is a 21st century kid then this clearly talks about problematic with the education of the new generations who at least the ones who had the opportunity to listen to the song can feel related and think about a solution.

Green day has opened the eyes of many 21st century kids and they were the voice of protests for older generations, they take music and merge it with both meaning and protests. I love the band, after all my generation is zero.