"Boulevard of Broken Dreams " is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day recorded for their seventh studio album American Idiot (2004). Reprise Records released "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as the second single from American Idiot . The lyrics were written by vocalist Billie Joe Armstrong, and the music was composed by the band. Production is handled by Rob Cavallo and Green Day. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" remains one of Green Day's unique songs.
The song speaks from the standpoint of the main character of American Idiot ', Jesus of Suburbia, and is a moderate midtempo song characterized by bleak and gloomy lyrics. This is different from the previous song on the album, "Holiday", which depicts the height of Jesus in the City. MTV's Green Day Making Video depicts "Holiday" as a party, and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" as the next drunk.
The song was ranked number one on Reader's Choice's Rolling Stone Reader's Choice: List of Singles of the Decade in 2009 and number 65 on 100 Best Songs from Decade list in that year same. It has sold over 2 million copies in the United States in 2010. The single reached number two on the Billboard Hot 100, behind "Candy Shop" by 50 Cent and Olivia, making it Green Day's most successful song in the United States. This song is the ninth highest song of the 2000-2009 decade with worldwide sales exceeding 5 million copies.
In 2017, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" remains the only song in history to win a Grammy Award for Record of the Year and MTV Video Music Award for Video of the Year.
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"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was written during a pause from pre-production on what would become the band's seventh album, American Idiot . Hoping to clear his mind and develop new ideas for songs, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong traveled to New York City alone for a few weeks, renting a small attic in the East Village of Manhattan. He spends a lot of time walking and participating in jam sessions in the Hi-Fi basement, a bar in Manhattan. He started socializing with songwriters Ryan Adams and Jesse Malin.
Armstrong wrote a song about his time in New York City, about "feeling alone" and trying to take power from that fact. Armstrong feels the song fits into his album's storyline, which is about "going and getting out of hell, while at the same time fighting their own inner demons." The title of this song comes from James Dean's Gottfried Helnwein painting that runs in New York in a mantle. (A more famous Gottfried Helnwein painting entitled "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" featuring James Dean, Marilyn Monroe, and other celebrities, and is a spoof of the famous painting of Edward Hopper Nighthawks In 2005 VH1 Storytellers Green Day, Billie Joe Armstrong stated that the title of the song was "entangled" from the painting of James Dean who walked alone.
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Composition
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is organized in the general time and arranged in the F minor key, such as "Holiday", the introduction. The opening features of electric guitar with tremolo play the development of the verse, which is the development of i-III-VII-IV (Fm-A? -E? -B?). The tremolo effect of different songs on the opening guitar is accomplished by digitally manipulating recording in ProTools. It's hard to produce, because it needs to stay in tune with the tempo of the song. Armstrong added acoustic guitar songs to add to his electric guitar rhythm and Cool drums. Billie Joe's vocals began, accompanied by an acoustic guitar. Bass and drum came in after the first two lines. The pre choir has an impressive lead guitar melody before it deviates into a distorted choir. The chorus contains the chord progression of VI-III-VII-i (D 5-A? 5-E? 5-Fm 5), ending in the power chord vamp C5. Solo follows the second chorus following paragraph progress while outro follows a highly distorted i-VI-VII-iv chord progression (Fm-D? -E? -B? 5-A? -C).
Critical reception
Noel Gallagher of Oasis criticized Green Day at the end of 2006, saying, "They must have the decency to wait until I die [before stealing my song] I, at least, pay the person I stole from that courtesy," referring to the fact that "Boulevard of Broken Dreams "uses the same chord progression as Oasis hit single" Wonderwall ". Gallagher's reaction may be in part due to the emergence of "Boulevard of Broken Songs", a popular mash-up blended by DJ San Francisco and producer Ben Party at the end of 2004. The mix consists of elements from "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", "Wonderwall" Travis' "Writing to Reach You" and Eminem "Singing for the Time", which itself has samples of Aerosmith's "Dream On".
In response to Hurricane Katrina and the popularity of "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Green Day donated all iTunes results from this song for the year to the American Red Cross for Katrina's relief effort.
Performance chart
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was named the Record of the Year at the 2006 Grammy Awards. The appeal of this song is shown by her performance on several Billboard singles charts: it spent 14 weeks at number one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks Graphs there for 38 weeks, 16 weeks at number one on the 32-week-old Modern Rock Tracks chart, 11 weeks at number one on the Adult Top 40 chart, staying in 44 weeks, and 4 weeks at number one on Mainstream Top 40 live in there for 26 weeks. This is the first song to occupy 4 charts while making this song a success in many charts. It reached number two on Billboard Hot 100, staying there for five weeks behind 50 Cent's "Candy Shop". It was also the first Green Day song to reach the Contemporary Adult chart, peaking at number 30 and although "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" does not map to Adult Contemporary, it does not map repetitive graphs.
Music video
The award-winning music video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was directed by Samuel Bayer. The music video for "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was filmed with a continuous storyline - the video for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" took place "Holiday" has stopped, with the last few seconds "Holiday" sounded early in the video "Boulevard of Broken Dreams ". This video depicts the band members after their car stops in the desert, and they start melancholy walking down a dusty road. The scene is interspersed with film footage, taken from around Los Angeles, from homeless people and other miserable scenes. The video also features recordings of band performances that play songs in abandoned warehouses.
The video features a green 1968 mercury convertible modified for filming in "Holiday" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" videos. This car has a hood ornament in the form of hand and heart grenade images from the album cover American Idiot , which is also used in the video for "Vacation". But the "iron hand" is actually used in the video for "Walking Contradiction", when the band members meet in a car towards the end of the video. The band's name is also on the front of the hood in silver letters. The band drove this car to the MTV Video Music Awards 2005 ceremony. As shown in the special MTV Video Creation, Bayer uses an unorthodox technique to achieve the old movie view of the Boulevard of Broken Dreams video, including using rear projection (as opposed to green screen) and physically damaging negatives: scratching the film with a razor, pouring coffee on it, and smoking a cigarette on it.
The video won six awards at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2005, primarily for Video of the Year. It also won Best Group Video, Best Rock Video, Best Direction, Best Editing, and Best Cinematography.
In popular culture
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The song was covered by Japanese-American singer Hikaru Utada acoustically with a guitar during an internet broadcast in December 2005; the video can be found. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" is sung first and then fades into "Passion" (After Battle Version) from the original Sound Hearts II soundtrack .
The live version of the song can be found at Bullet in a Bible , a 2005 live album from Green Day that appeared on June 19 that year at Milton Keynes National Bowl.
Bluegrass band Cornbread Red performed a cover on the tribute album for Green Day at Green Day, while the German Gregorian choir performed cover, on their album's Masters of Chant Chapter V, in the style of Gregorian Chant.
Mark Mallman covered this song on his MP3 compilation release just Outtakes Vol 1 .
The song is also featured in Green Day's American Idiot music, sung on footage by John Gallagher Jr., Rebecca Naomi Jones, and the rest of the company.
Usage in media
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" was also featured in the movie trailer Lords of Dogtown (2005), starring Heath Ledger, Emile Hirsch and John Robinson. In an episode of the MTV series When I was 17 , Ashley Fink revealed that â € Å"Boulevard of Broken Dreamsâ € is her favorite song. The song was sung by Dwight Shrute and Andy Bernard in the episode of "Secret Santa" in the sixth season The Office .
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- The live track was recorded on 21 September 2004 at Irving Plaza in New York City.
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External links
- Lyrics of this song in MetroLyrics
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