Source: Faroutmagazine.co.uk.
UK – For any creative musician, the recording studio is essentially a playground. Even though it’s easy to let loose when on the live stage, the studio always provides an open canvas to create something that might be able to come across when playing live in front of people. It’s easy to experiment, but Green Day also saw it as an opportunity to have some fun.
As the band reached the early 2000s, they started to wane in popularity for the first time. After Dookie set everything on fire and pushed the band on to a new level in 1994, Billie Joe Armstrong began experimenting with the kind of songs he wanted to write for the band, including material not necessarily confined to pop-punk. Though Nimrod got the ball rolling with different material, Warning was where the gloves came off, ready for musical experimentation.
Across each song, Green Day began experimenting with what they could do in the confines of rock, embracing acoustic instruments on the title track and ‘Minority’. There were also some lyrical departures like ‘Blood Sex and Booze’, where Armstrong sings about wanting to be sexually satisfied through S&M. This wasn’t the first time that Green Day sang about something like bondage (look to Tre Cool’s ‘Dominated Love Slave’ for that distinction), but it was the first time that the band got an actual sex worker in the studio with them.
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