10 Musical Switchups That Fans Absolutely Hated
2. Green Day Goes Folk
The entire concept of pop punk pretty much lives and dies on how carefree the songs sound. Let's face it...there's no way you were listening to someone like Sum 41 strictly because they had some pertinent messages to impart upon the youth or anything. In fact, when you actually do come up with goods, the masses are the first people to reject it.
At the turn of the '00s, Green Day were already being considered yesterday's news, with no new album in years and having to play second fiddle to Blink-182 more often than not. So surely a folk pop album was going to soothe the masses...until their hatred kicked into overdrive. Given Nimrod's already weird tangents, this delve into classic rock territory was the last thing people were clamoring for in the age of Fat Lip and All the Small Things.
As time has gone on though, Warning has held up as much better than most of its peers. Across its runtime, Billie Joe seems to be growing as a frontman, with Minority and Macy's Day Parade signaling the more heartfelt and political material that we would later see on American Idiot a few years later. While by no means on the same level as Dookie, the quality of the songs on here are still enough to give records like All Killer No Filler a run for their money.