• @cybervseas
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    1009 months ago

    From Wikipedia:

    “Wake Me Up When September Ends” was written by frontman Billie Joe Armstrong about his father, who died from esophageal cancer when Armstrong was 10 years old. Armstrong at one point dubbed the song the most autobiographical he had written to that point, considering it “therapeutic” but also difficult to perform.

    • @[email protected]
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      719 months ago

      Also from Wikipedia:

      “Armstrong has expressed his displeasure with the memes and has joked about wanting to write a sequel song in response called ‘Shut the Fuck Up When October Comes’.”

        • @[email protected]
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          39 months ago

          Alt: imagine being a public figure famous music band and not have the internet not make jokes about your songs

          Not saying it can’t affect him and his past trauma, but like… not everyone knows or cares about your lore, famous rock star

    • @FooBarrington
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      9 months ago

      Not in Kiribati, they live in the future

        • @FooBarrington
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          Nah man, you gotta think strategically. You move to Honolulu, and find an acquaintance in Kiribati. They give you through the stock movements from the future, and you buy/sell in the past!

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

            You guys are being silly. Obviously that doesn’t work because the speed of light limits how fast that call can come through. By the time you get the information the stock will have already moved.

    • @cmac
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      39 months ago

      Maybe he meant he wanted to be awake to see September end. Like a New Year’s Countdown.

    • @[email protected]
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      129 months ago

      You know what’s much less funny after all these years? People insisting on going out of their way to yuck on everybody’s yum.

      • @ThatWeirdGuy1001
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        219 months ago

        I mean we probably shouldn’t laugh at a song that was about him coping with his father’s death.

        Kinda like the whole loss meme. You’re making a joke out of a devastating traumatic experience.

        • @[email protected]
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          149 months ago

          Nope. I’d agree if the joke was about the content or context of the song, but it isn’t.

          It’s just a silly joke about the title and has nothing to do with anything else.

  • Schnitzel Bub
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    Every year I see this shit and without fail, I chuckle every time for the past 15 years.

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        29 months ago

        To most of us it’s about the time passing and the innocent never lasting (which I always assumed is a similar idea to “why do the good people always go first”.).

        That being said, if we stop joking about serious matters and just take everything seriously - whether it’s intended like that or not - we’re fucked.

        • @TheDarkKnight
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          09 months ago

          Would you like someone making jokes about your parents dying?

          • Schnitzel Bub
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            No, I’d much rather someone completely misconstrued what I said, missed the point entirely and tried to take all the fun out of yet another array of jokes.

    • @virku
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      09 months ago

      Sending this to my friends tomorrow