{"id":5006,"date":"2020-05-05T10:12:44","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T07:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/?p=5006"},"modified":"2020-05-05T10:12:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-05T07:12:45","slug":"hear-billie-joe-armstrong-cover-kim-wildes-kids-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/2020\/05\/05\/hear-billie-joe-armstrong-cover-kim-wildes-kids-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Hear Billie Joe Armstrong Cover Kim Wilde\u2019s \u2018Kids in America\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Green Day frontman dedicates quarantine version of 1981 hit to bandmate Mike Dirnt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day - Kids in America (No Fun Mondays Cover)\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VBEEyWRJcJs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Billie Joe Armstrong added a power-pop spin to Kim Wilde\u2019s 1981 hit \u201cKids in America\u201d with the latest installment of his quarantine cover series \u201cNo Fun Mondays.\u201d The frontman belts the track over distorted guitars that build from palm-muted chugging to surging chords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The singer dedicated the track to \u201cthe one, the only Mike Dirnt,\u201d Green Day\u2019s bassist and his bandmate of over two decades. \u201cPlay this one loud just for him,\u201d Armstrong wrote in the video\u2019s caption. The clip features an animated unicorn bassist bouncing along as a hand writes out the lyrics on notebook paper in green sharpie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Armstrong also noted that Wilde\u2019s song was later covered by punk rock act the Muffs. (Their version appeared on the soundtrack to 1995 film comedy Clueless.) After that band\u2019s singer-guitarist Kim Shattuck died in October at 56 from complications of ALS, the Green Day member praised her as a major influence on his work. \u201cShe was one of my favorite songwriters,\u201d he wrote. \u201cWhen we recorded Dookie, we listened to the first Muffs record constantly. We will hear that rock n roll scream from heaven.\u201d<br>In previous quarantine covers, Armstrong recruited the Bangles\u2019 Susanna Hoffs for that band\u2019s \u201cManic Monday\u201d and tipped his cap to the late Adam Schlesinger by tackling the Wonders\u2019 \u201cThat Thing You Do!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Green Day released their 13th studio album, Father of All\u2026, in February. And Armstrong is already eyeing the band\u2019s next project, having recently written a handful of new songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI had all these melodies in my head, so I wrote, like, six songs since all of this has been going on,\u201d he told Kerrang. \u201cI don\u2019t know when I can get together with Mike and Tr\u00e9, but I told them to make sure that they\u2019re quarantined for now, and then I hope down the road we can get back in the studio with [Father Of All\u2026 producer] Butch Walker.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day frontman dedicates quarantine version of 1981 hit to bandmate Mike Dirnt Billie Joe Armstrong added a power-pop spin to Kim Wilde\u2019s 1981 hit \u201cKids in America\u201d with the latest installment of his quarantine cover series \u201cNo Fun Mondays.\u201d The frontman belts the track over distorted guitars that build from palm-muted chugging to surging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5007,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15],"tags":[124],"class_list":["post-5006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-news","tag-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5006\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevoiceofpeace.co.il\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}