American Idiot, at least the title track, was a little pretentious but there was enough there to back it all up for me. I'm not a big fan of the track by any means though.
However with the new album, the way I see it is they have written some really big, stadium rock anthems and moved towards almost an "epic" kind of a sound for this record and there just isn't enough content or substance to pull it off. All thats left is something that sounds as though they tried, failed, and failed pretentiously.
As I said however, I have only listened to it once so I am prepared to take all of that back if necessary.
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