2. Dookie Catapulted Punk As A Lifestyle Into The Mainstream
It's quite simple really. Dookie was responsible for putting punk on your radio and on your TV, bringing this new-wave style to the masses and igniting a cultural revolution that saw subcultures like skaters rise in more populous numbers. As we've already said without Dookie, we wouldn't have bands like Sum 41 or The Offspring but how much further did the influence of Dookie go? Would we have the Vans Warped Tour or the massive American Pie franchise? Would the Tony Hawk gaming series have enjoyed the success it achieved? We will never really know but it is impossible to deny the influence Dookie had on popular culture. And whilst many punk fans expressed their disdain at commercialised punk rock and blamed Green Day for pushing punk into mainstream, Green Day responded by asserting that they were just being themselves and they didn't care what people thought. They told VH1 in a Behind the Music documentary 'It's our album. We can do what we want' in response to the issues surrounding their signing with a major label for Dookie's release. They really didn't care what people thought and what's more punk than that?