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Posted December 20, 2010
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What is the song The Last of the American Girls by Green Day about?
I know how it fits in with the concept of the album (Gloria and Christian and all that), but most of Green Day's concept album songs seem to have meanings about people/events actually going on in the real world. (Like Holiday and Bush) So does anyone have any ideas? Or do you think the song is solely about Gloria? Thanks!
Someone (I think it was Mike Dirnt) said that Billie Joe wrote it with his wife (Adrienne) in mind. It's basically praising Gloria, or a Gloria-ish girl, and how she stands up for her beliefs, cares about the working class ("she makes enough to survive for a holiday of working class"), and doesn't take crap from anyone ("she's a runaway fromt the establishment incorporated"). In a way, that's what America is all about, and it's hard to find in the real world ("endangered species headed into extinction"), hence, the Last of the American Girls. If you add it into the Christian/Gloria story, that's what Christian loves about her, she's "one of a kind". If you've heard American Idiot, that goes the same for the song She's a Rebel. Jesus of Suburbia loves Whatsername because she doesn't take crap from anyone.
It pretty much is solely about Gloria, but it's more about how she holds the American spirit.
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