Listen to Green Day’s defiant new single ‘One Eyed Bastard’
nme.comGreen Day have dropped a defiant new track called ‘One Eyed Bastard’ – you can listen to it below.Released today (January 5), the track is the latest preview of the pop-punk trio’s upcoming album ‘Saviors’, and follows on from recent tracks ‘Dilemma’, ‘The American Dream Is Killing Me’ and ‘Look Ma, No Brains!’.Unlike their personal last single ‘Dilemma’, which was shared last month, ‘One Eyed Bastard’ takes on the more traditional Green Day sound – a defiant pop-punk anthem that focuses on resistance.“Vendetta is a friend of mine/ Revenge is sweeter than wine/ I never asked to hear your god-damned feelings/ Get on your knees when you are kissing my ring,” frontman Billie Joe Armstrong sings in the build-up to the chorus.
It also comes alongside a cartoon-style visual accompaniment, which you can check out below.“’One Eyed Bastard’ started off as just a riff that I had – a shuffle, almost like a Black Sabbath kind of riff.
Lyrically, I was just reflecting on bad times in life,” Armstrong explained in a press release.“That’s the thing about nostalgia, sometimes you think, ‘That was an awful time’,” he added. “Everybody’s got that ugly place in their life where they have to deal with ugly thoughts – it could be like revenge or whatever.
Thankfully, I have an outlet in songwriting.”The trio – comprised of Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – also dropped a teaser for the new track on their Instagram page.“What can we say?
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