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Lyrics Green Day - Do You Know Your Enemy

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2009 single by Light-green Day

"Know Your Enemy"
Green Day - Know Your Enemy cover.jpg
Single by Green Day
from the album 21st Century Breakup
B-side
  • "Lights Out"
  • "Hearts Collide"
Released Apr sixteen, 2009
Recorded September i, 2008
Genre
  • Pop punk[one]
  • punk rock
  • alternative rock[2]
Length 3:11
Label Reprise
Songwriter(southward)
  • Billie Joe Armstrong
  • Mike Dirnt
  • Tré Cool
Producer(s)
  • Butch Vig
  • Green Twenty-four hour period
Dark-green Day singles chronology
"The Simpsons Theme"
(2007) 		"Know Your Enemy"
(2009) 		"21 Guns"
(2009)
Music video
"Know Your Enemy" on YouTube

"Know Your Enemy" is a vocal past American stone ring Dark-green Twenty-four hours. It is the third runway on their eighth album, 21st Century Breakup, and information technology was released as the lead single through Reprise Records on April 16, 2009, and the grouping's beginning unmarried since "Jesus of Bourgeoisie", released 4 years before. Billboard described the song as being lyrically "just as politically charged equally last time (on American Idiot)", having a "Modernistic Rock radio-ready chorus", whilst the vocal's producer Butch Vig "brings enough punk sheen for mass appeal."[3] It was the offset, and 1 of only 3 songs, to superlative the Stone Songs, Alternative Songs and Mainstream Stone Tracks Billboard charts at the same fourth dimension. "Know Your Enemy" has been certified Golden by the RIAA and has sold 798,000 copies as of August 2010.

Release and reception [edit]

It was referred to by Spin every bit sounding "like an out-take from the Dookie sessions".[four] About.com'south Bill Lamb said the song was "standard issue Green Day", "not a stroke of genius" and "non on par with their last album", but said it was a "corking titbit" for one of the most eagerly awaited albums of 2009.[5] Pitchfork Media described the track equally having "pedantic stiffness" and "nothing more than than a rote protest song preaching to the converted".[six] Rolling Rock called the song one of the highlights of the anthology, praising the punk-oriented sound and calling it i of the "Clash-size bootboy chants" [from the album].[7] Billboard said that "The lead single from the band's new release, 21st Century Breakdown, finds the group only as politically charged as last fourth dimension", simply as well said that "While the subject field thing is broad and may be missed past some, "Enemy" has enough charm to amp up the airwaves until (21st Century) Breakdown is released."[3]

Billie Joe Armstrong told Q, "It's a rallying vocal. It'southward most liberating yourself from a lot of bullshit that you lot come across on TV."[8] The song managed to top both the Billboard Mainstream and Alternative Songs charts at the same fourth dimension, while cracking the Elevation 30 on the Billboard Hot 100, so far reaching number 28.[9] The song entered the Alternative Songs chart at number 8 and rose to number ane in its 2d week. It kept the top spot for vi weeks. It became bachelor equally a downloadable vocal for the music video game Stone Band on July 7, 2009, forth with the songs "East Jesus Nowhere" and "21 Guns" and is also featured on the soundtrack to the video game NHL 10.[x] Information technology has been used on the trailers for movies The Spy Next Door and Free Birds too every bit existence used to promote Comcast and the Wimbledon on ESPN.

During their 21st Century Breakup tour prove in Minneapolis on July xi, 2009, Billie Joe Armstrong told the crowd that the song had been recorded on the first twenty-four hours of the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, MN.[xi]

"Know Your Enemy" was used every bit the theme song for WWE SmackDown since the show's debut on Syfy from 2010-2012.

It is also played at Green Bay Packers games when the abroad team comes out of the locker room.

FC Halifax Boondocks also employ this equally their walk out song when playing at dwelling house.

The song is also featured on the Awesome as Fuck live album.

The song appears in Shaun White Skateboarding and every bit DLC for the Rock Band video game series.

Music video [edit]

The music video was directed by Motion Theory's Matthew Cullen (who helmed the video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" in 2008), and it premiered on MTV and other stations across the globe on April 24, 2009. In the video, the band is performing at nighttime on a stage in a field surrounded past a barbed wire argue. Shots of the band are also often seen through nighttime vision closed-circuit cameras that environment the field, as well every bit on helicopters that patrol the area with searchlights. The terminal chorus of the song shows fire called-for behind the band in silhouettes of the ring members (Billie Joe has a human being with a guitar behind him, Tré Cool has a man playing the drums behind him, Mike Dirnt has a human being playing bass behind him). The video was shot in Downtown Los Angeles.

Track listing [edit]

CD and digital download
No. Title Length
one. "Know Your Enemy" 3:12
CD
No. Title Length
1. "Know Your Enemy" iii:12
two. "Lights Out" ii:16
3. "Hearts Collide" two:39
Hot Topic limited CD
No. Title Length
one. "Know Your Enemy" 3:12
2. "Lights Out" 2:16
Digital download - EP Napster Sectional
No. Title Length
1. "Know Your Enemy" 3:12
2. "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (Alive from Irving Plaza) four:24
iii. "F.O.D." (Live from Prague) 2:24
Digital download - Single
No. Title Length
1. "Know Your Enemy" iii:12
two. "Lights Out" 2:16
iii. "Hearts Collide" 2:39
seven" vinyl
No. Championship Length
ane. "Know Your Enemy" 3:12
2. "Hearts Collide" 2:39
Vinyl Box Set
No. Title Length
1. "Know Your Enemy" iii:12
2. "21 Guns" v:21

Charts [edit]

Certifications [edit]

Personnel [edit]

  • Billie Joe Armstrong - guitar, lead vocals
  • Mike Dirnt - bass guitar, bankroll vocals
  • Tré Cool - drums, percussion

References [edit]

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