But Green Day did just that when they unleashed American Idiot onto the unsuspecting public in the lead-up to the 2004 presidential election. The trio’s seventh LP might not have unseated George W. Bush from the White House,

Green Day played every song on "Dookie" and "American Idiot" when the 2024 Saviors Tour hit Phoenix with Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid and Linda Lindas.

Green Day's hit single American Idiot has made it to the billionaires club. The 2004 track, which was the first song to be released from the album of the same name, has officially reached a billion streams on Spotify, becoming the trio's second ever track to do so.