Released: December 15, 2014

Songwriter: Billie Joe Armstrong

Producer: John Feldmann

[Intro: Michael, Calum & Ashton]
Does anybody know the band Green Day?
Not familiar
The next song we
Who’s that?
The next song we’re gonna play is a very, very, very fast cover of them
I’m sorry if I
Don’t judge my drumming, I suck at this song, let’s go

[Verse 1: Michael]
Don’t wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
And sing along to the age of paranoia

[Chorus: Luke]
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alien nation
Everything isn’t meant to be okay
Television’s dreams of tomorrow, we’re not the ones you’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue

[Verse 2: Michael]
Don’t wanna be an American idiot
I’m not a part of a red-neck agenda
Now everybody do the propaganda
And sing along to the age of paranoia, you looking at me?

[Chorus: All]
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alien nation
Everything isn’t meant to be okay
Television’s dreams of tomorrow, we’re not the ones you’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue

[Bridge: All, Calum & Michael]
Don’t wanna be an American idiot
One nation controlled by the media
Information age of hysteria
It’s calling out to idiot America

[Chorus: All]
Welcome to a new kind of tension, all across the alien nation
Everything isn’t meant to be okay
Television’s dreams of tomorrow, we’re not the ones you’re meant to follow
For that’s enough to argue

5 Seconds of Summer

5 Seconds of Summer is an Australian pop-punk band composed of Luke Hemmings, Calum Hood, Ashton Irwin, and Michael Clifford. They formed in 2011 and rose to international fame when One Direction found their covers of songs on YouTube in 2013. Shortly afterwards, they released their award winning single “She Looks So Perfect.”

Their first EP, Somewhere New, was released December 7th, 2012, and featured “Unpredictable,” “Out of My Limit,” “Beside You,” and “Gotta Get Out”.

The band’s self-titled debut studio album was released June 27th, 2014. “She Looks So Perfect,” “Don’t Stop,” “Amnesia,” and “Good Girls” were released as singles, each earning a music video. “Beside You” was remastered and put on the album.