Green Day changed my life

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ariiiianna
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ariiiianna
Age: 27
Gender: Female
Posts: 2
May 14th, 2011 at 06:10pm
The first time I was ever introduced to Green Day as a band was when I was 8. My aunts favorite band is Green Day and one day I happened to stumble upon her American Idiot screen saver on her computer. It was a picture of them on the set of the American Idiot music video.

That was pretty much all I knew about the band until 2010 when i went on my aunts computer to add music from her library to my empty ipod. Later i began listening to a bunch of her favorite music .I remember the first time Basket Case played on my ipod, it was right after Cupid's Chokehold , a song by Gym Class Heros. It was just about the oddest thing i had ever heard, but i loved it.
To be honest, I was embarrased that I liked that song and didn't tell anyone how much I enjoyed it because i thought they would make fun of me because of the lyrics. Later, after i had finished listening to Dookie, i told my sister that i loved them (: She then became a major fan of Green Day, and our whole perspective on music changed. My favorite bands now include Green Day, Escape the Fate, Rise Against, The Used , Taking Back Sunday and Black Veil Brides.

The only music I listened to back then was anything that i heard on the radio. I have now come to love and appreciate all types of rock music. And i honestly think I matured a little bit after I started listening to Green Day.
As a kid I was watching Disney(obsessing over Hannah Montana) and Nickelodeon all day long. That has completely changed.
My favorite shows are The Office, How i met your mother, Friday Night Lights and Saturday Night live.

I soon began to dress differently, i dont remember what made me want to start wearing heavy eyeliner or why my whole wardrobe no longer included color. I was teased by people that i considered friends after they saw a picture of Billie Joe, Tre, and Mike on my binder.
"Oh, they look like girls"
"What f**s!"
"You don't like Justin Bieber? What's wrong with you?!" (and yes, someone said that to me, one girl who was very obsessed with JB)
One day I came to school wearing my 21st Century Breakdown shirt(the one with Christian and Gloria kissing on it) and my friend who was obsessed with Justin Bieber just said "Eww..." I would have never said that about her beloved Justin Bieber , because I knew how much she loved him.
But It doesnt matter anymore.
I have Green Day to thank for helping me care less about what people think of me. They caused me to change completely as a person and I love who I have become.
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