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Time of India
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
MGK's new song 'Cliché' drops — here's what fans are saying
Multi-platinum artist Machine Gun Kelly has released his latest single and music video, 'Cliché'—a vibrant, summer-ready track infused with dance-pop energy. The song, produced in collaboration with SlimXX, BazeXX, and Nick Long, is accompanied by a slick visual directed by Sam Cahill. 'Cliché' made a bold debut with a high-profile broadcast premiere across MTV Live, MTVU, MTV Biggest Pop, and Paramount's Times Square billboards. Leading up to the release, MGK teased the track's arrival with a pre-save link on his official website, hinting at an upcoming project. The video showcases MGK in a carefree, nostalgic mood, brought to life by choreographer Sean Bankhead, known for his work with Usher and Tate McRae. The dance routines echo the classic style of the late '90s and early 2000s—slick, sentimental, and perfectly in step with the track's theme. Ads By Google Ad will close in 29 Skip ad in 4 Skip Ad by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Тайната, която нито една почистваща фирма не иска да знаеш! Водоструйка на батерии Undo — machinegunkelly (@machinegunkelly) In the run-up to the release, MGK dropped a series of cover performances, including the Goo Goo Dolls' 'Iris,' Juice WRLD's 'Empty Out Your Pockets,' and Green Day's 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams.' He's also set to headline this year's 30th Anniversary Vans Warped Tour in Washington, DC, and Orlando, Florida. Live Events MGK's recent accolades include two Billboard 200 chart-toppers: Tickets to My Downfall (2020), which went platinum and spawned 18 charting singles on Hot Rock Songs, and Mainstream Sellout, which earned him a Grammy nomination for Best Rock Album. His hits 'Bloody Valentine' and 'My Ex's Best Friend' both reached No. 1 on alternative radio. MGK Cliché Twitter Review Fans and critics alike took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to share their thoughts on the new release: "Dude this scene gave me chills! So beautifully choreographed, nostalgic, and just so fitting with the lyrics. Props to MGK, the dancer, the choreographers, and Sam for directing & capturing this perfectly," wrote one fan. Another user added: "This video is perfectly fitting for the title because what's more cliché than a choreographed scene in the RAIN?!" Not everyone was impressed, however. One critic wrote: "RIP this is what's left of MGK after Eminem destroyed his rap career." And another bluntly commented: "Is there any genre that MGK's voice actually sounds good in? Every song I've heard, he sounds horrible."
Perth Now
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Green Day made Blink-182 a better band, says Mark Hoppus
Mark Hoppus found Blink-182's rivalry with Green Day to be "weird". The 53-year-old musician "grew up listening to Green Day" and was a huge fan of their music during his younger years, but friction developed between the bands during their co-headline Pop Disaster Tour in 2002. Mark - who stars in Blink-182 alongside Tom DeLonge and Travis Barker - told NME: "That was very strange because I grew up listening to Green Day. I literally waited for the day that 'Dookie' came out, and I was in line waiting to buy it. "I was a huge fan, then we're touring with them, but it was a weird thing where Green Day were dipping at the time and Blink were ascendent. "We were billed as co-headliners, but Blink were closing every night, and that was a strange sensation for us. Headlining over your idols is a little strange." Mark likened the dynamic to sporting rivals going head-to-head for victory. The bassist also feels that the rivalry made Blink-182 "a better band". He explained: "It's like athletes: we could be on different teams, but when we get on the field we're going to try and kick your a**. "We didn't come with that attitude, but they did. They blew us off the stage the first few nights and we were like, 'Oh s***, we have to up our game'. "Then it was this battle back-and-forth about who could put on the better show and who could win people over. It definitely made us a better band." Mark joked that the rivalry inspired Green Day to make 'American Idiot', their 2004 album that featured hits like 'Wake Me Up When September Ends' and 'Boulevard of Broken Dreams'. He quipped: "I think I inspired them so much they were like, 'We have to kill Blink-182 with an awesome album called 'American Idiot'." Meanwhile, Mark recently claimed that Blink-182 have found a "common goal". The chart-topping rock band reunited after Mark was diagnosed with cancer in 2021, and the group now cherish the time they spend together. Mark - who is now cancer-free - told The Independent: "Everybody really respects and cherishes one another. "We all love Blink and what we built, and we don't want to mess that up anymore. We have a common goal."
Time of India
30-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Green Day to be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
Two decades after they gave the world one of its most unforgettable anthems, Boulevard of Broken Dreams , Green Day is about to leave their mark—quite literally—on Hollywood Boulevard. On May 1 at 11:30 a.m. PT, the iconic punk rock trio will be honoured with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame , and fans can't hold back their excitement. The announcement, made by the band on Instagram, drew an outpouring of love and nostalgic joy. 'This is going to be one to remember… come celebrate with us!' the band wrote, inviting fans to the ceremony with a touch of classic Green Day mischief. From all-caps cheers to heartfelt gratitude, the comments section turned into a digital street party. 'You guys deserve every win that comes your way,' said one fan. Another echoed the sentiment: 'Posting that fact as a punk zine flyer: priceless.' Among the sea of emojis and comments, the one that summed it up best came from a fan who declared, 'It's no surprise to see your name on the Walk of Fame because you've changed music and the lives of so many of us.' This milestone comes 20 years after the release of Boulevard of Broken Dreams , a song that shaped a generation. And now, Green Day's journey—from punk clubs to world tours—is being etched into history, one star at a time. Masterclass for Students. Upskill Young Ones Today!– Join Now
The Guardian
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Green Day at Coachella review – fun but muddled set pokes fun at American Idiots
Coachella, for the most part, presents a welcome escape from the world – 10-plus hours of live music a day in a corporate-lite fantasy land, time delineated only by set lists and tents. But if there was one band who could speak to our political moment, as they unfortunately but necessarily say – who could bring the feeling of resistance, if not actual change, to the desert – it would be Green Day, the American punk band whose seminal record American Idiot stuck a middle finger to the Bush administration in 2004. Though the album is in fact more rock opera of sweeping adolescent feeling than political commentary, the opportunity for concert catharsis, if not actual change, is high; it's a historically excellent time to scream along to 'don't want to be an American Idiot.' Catharsis was intermittently on hand during Green Day's headliner set on Saturday, a muddled affair that, although performed to punk perfection, landed more awkwardly than one would hope. To be fair, the California-based band, formed when frontman Billie Joe Armstrong and bassist Mike Dirnt were in high school in 1987, was dealt a tough hand as Coachella's headliner follow up to Lady Gaga, who transformed the desert into a gothic fever dream with a stunning and instantly canonical set on Friday night. And more pressingly, in following unofficial headliner Charli xcx, who preceded Green Day on the main stage Saturday with a larger crowd and a tighter grip on middle-finger energy and the color of puke green. Brat Summer signifiers still abounded in the audience for Green Day, a striking mix of Gen X grey hair and Gen Z hair gems for Coachella's legacy act of the weekend. The band seemed not to know which audience to cater to, the old-school fans or the generations raised downstream of Boulevard of Broken Dreams, and split the difference in uneasy fashion from the jump; the set opened with two full tracks from other bands, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody and The Ramones' Blitzkrieg Bop, with a man in a Billie Joe-styled bunny suit hyping up the crowd – whether a delay tactic or an intentional nod to forebearers, it was never clear. Without intro, the band plowed through 18 tracks spanning 1994's Dookie to 2024's Saviors, all delivered with their signature impishness unaffected by time, with standard concert camera work and stock visuals largely rendered in the stark American Idiot color scheme of white, black and red. But front-loading the set with the three American Idiot songs most nostalgically beloved by millennials – the title track (lyrics changed to 'Don't want to be an American idiot / I'm not part of a Maga agenda'), Holiday and Boulevard of Broken Dreams – robbed the 90-minute set of critical build-up and the audience of some fickle attendees. American Idiot would work much better as an exclamation point finale than, say, Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) with an audience member brought up to play lagging acoustic to Armstrong's impeccable vocals. With few interstitials, minimal intros and no clear delineation between eras or significance, the setlist felt less like a coherent tour through a storied career and more a collection of songs powered through with consummate professionalism. That's not a knock on the band members – drummer Tré Cool, sweating off his glitter eyeshadow with relentless pursuit of rapid-fire rhythm; bassist Dirnt, as dogged and limber as ever; and especially Armstrong, whose voice retains a hint of the punk nasality and remains one of the most distinctive and pleasing in American rock music. His singing cut through the volume and any doubts, from throat-scratching scream to rare moments of spare emotion, as in Wake Me Up When September Ends. The grief anthem marked the high point of the show, when Armstrong – still sprightly at 53, eyes still kohl-rimmed and twinkly – summoned the strongest command on an audience he at one point advised to temporarily drop their phone cameras and live in the moment. Live and yell in the moment, many did, though the show evinced the limitations of a legacy punk rock act as a main stage headliner in the post-Beychella era of elaborate productions. Green Day are seasoned performers with a deep catalog of the loud, the invigorating and the scream-able; they are also a three-piece outfit in their 50s not known for choreography – punk is an attitude and a freedom, after all – with little to bring to the massive main stage beyond absolutely shredding their instruments. In lieu of added staging or guests (a little of friend and occasional co-performer Billie Eilish would have gone a long way), Armstrong relied on classic rock concert tricks for audience engagement – 'wave your hands in the air,' a 1-2-3-4 countdown for everyone to jump, pitting sides of the audience against each other in a screaming contest – that ran out of juice by the end. Still, Green Day delivered on the ultimate mandate of a headliner act: loud, fully absorbing fun. From Basket Case to Brain Stew to Jesus of Suburbia to, yes, American Idiot, the volume was invigoratingly high, the music comforting, the heads banging. And the opportunity to scream along to lyrics of disillusionment and anger as welcome as ever.
