About 21st Century Breakdown album

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21st Century Breakdown is the eighth studio album works of American punk rock band Green Day. This is their second album rock opera that uses the style, just like American Idiot. This album is also their first album was produced by Butch Vig. Green Day embarked on the cultivation of this album in January 2006. About 45 songs were written by lead vocalist and guitarist Billie Joe Armstrong until October 2007, but Green Day was not immediately entered the studio to begin working with Butch Vig until January 2008. This album cultivation process in total lasted for three years and worked in four recording studios in California to finish in April 2009. 21st Century Breakdown was released on May 15, 2009 through Reprise Records. Until December 2010, 21st Century Breakdown has sold 1.005 million copies in the United States and more than 3.5 million worldwide.

Billie Joe described the album as "a picture of the era we are living in, where we are trying to understand the unilateral manipulation that occur around us, whether it be by the government, the media, religious fanatic adherents, or power of any kind. Singel from albums such as" Know Your Enemy "and" 21 Guns "indicates picture theme album about the political furore over the world today.

Green Day started writing songs for a new album of material in January 2006 after a tour in extansif in 2005. At that time, Billie Joe stated, "We started in silence, and that's how we look for inspiration to" discover "new album." Green Day does not provide detailed information about the process of writing or recording, up to October 2007 Billie Joe in an interview with Rolling Stone said that he had written about 45 songs. They worked on the conceptual stage in their rehearsal studio in Oakland, California. Little is known about the theme or style that will be issued on labum them, but Billie Joe emphasized, "I want to dig into the actual diriki and what I feel now diusiaku the middle." He added that of the 45 songs are mostly written with basic piano instead of guitar.