The day after the Grammys I read a Jim DeRogatis’ column in the Sun-Times that gave a synopsis of the night’s performances. I find myself disagreeing with his points more so than not, but I do respect his writing skills and enjoy his column from time to time. However, I’m gonna take him to task on the following paragraph from this February 1, 2010 column:

In a “jump the shark” moment from which they likely never will recover, aging pop-punk heroes Green Day performed “21 Guns” with the cast from their Broadway musical “American Idiot,” reducing a great song to a pompous, bombastic, “Up With People” meets “Rent” sing-along. (Can this possibly be the same band that once gave us “Dookie”?)

Ok, I get it, Green Day’s Grammy performance may have been a little over the top and kinda silly, but what Jim fails to realize is that is probably the reason why Green Day gave the green light to such a project/performance in the first place. The Grammys are over the top, silly and stupid – kinda like the most of music industry in general.

I can see the 3 members of Green Day sitting around a table, enjoying some pizza, maybe a couple of beers or soda pop while laughing at the fact that their album “American Idiot” has gone Broadway (suckers!). The band has an occasional antagonistic nature about them and very thought off such a production probably had them say “Why not?”. Yeah, it may bomb, it may be completely awful, but I think Green Day will survive just fine. They have a pretty good catalog of songs/albums that have generated a solid fan base since the early ’90s. Possible minor setback, probable – “un-Punk”, maybe – jump the shark, don’t think so.

It’ll probably give us a look back and laugh moment, if anything.

Anyway on a separate note, enjoy this clip from Best in Show.

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