Green Day – Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt and Tré Cool – have returned with “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” the first single and opening track from the group’s forthcoming album Saviors, releasing January 19th, 2024. Listen to the World Premiere of “The American Dream is Killing Me” all day on WXRY. Watch the accompanying music video, directed by Brendan Walter and Ryan Baxley, HERE.
“The American Dream Is Killing Me” was one of the last tracks written and recorded by Green Day for Saviors. “As soon we cut it, we said, `Okay, that’s going first,’” says Billie Joe Armstrong who describes the new song as “a look at the way the traditional American Dream doesn’t work for a lot of people — in fact, it’s hurting a lot of people.”
Recorded in London and Los Angeles, Saviors is the latest powerful collaboration between Green Day and Grammy-winning producer Rob Cavallo, whose notable previous work with Green Day includes two of the band’s most iconic albums, 1994’s Dookie and 2004’s American Idiot. The record comes just ahead of Dookie’s 30th anniversary