Green Day Get In Touch With Inner MCs On Album Trilogy

'I'm not rapping ... I'm the hype man,' Billie Joe Armstrong says of hip-hop track on upcoming ¡Dos! album.

From the minute Green Day started talking about their ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre!trilogy, they seemingly wanted to make one point clear: These albums were going to be nothing like American Idiot or 21st Century Breakdown.

"The last two albums ... sort of bookend each other, and it's the end of that era," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong told MTV news last month. "I think with writing these three albums ... we just started writing songs, just getting back to basics."

And while that may be true about ¡ Uno!'s pro-party first single,  "Oh Love", even the guys in Green Day will admit that the new album hassome similarities to American Idiot ... mostly in the form of "Kill the DJ," a spiky slab of dance punk that, title aside, echoes many of the sentiments contained on that politically charged record.

"It's more [about] the static that's in the air ... it's kind of a subject matter that's always been a part of our songs; it's very similar to American Idiotin subject matter," Armstrong said. "Because you're just getting all this false information coming from all directions. And then there's sort of a decadent, party atmosphere that goes along with it, so there's that kind of static and noise that goes on. So it's sort of like walking through the noise, high as hell."

Then again, there are plenty of other moments on the trilogy that are about as far removed from Idiot or Breakdown as you can get. Take, for example, ¡Dos!'s explorations of hip-hop, which not only prove that Green Day are trying to move on from their political past, but that they're willing to try anything once.

"There's this band called Mystic Knights Of The Cobra, and they come from the same small town we do, around Crockett, California," Armstrong said. "[They have a singer] named Monica Painter, aka Lady Cobra ... and she's a good rapper, so we ended up collaborating with her. She's this punk girl, she's in his wild band that does anything from punk rock to hip-hop, so we collaborated with her and it ended up being great ... this is the first collaboration in a long time. I'm not rapping, though. She's rapping. I'm the hype man."

"Oh Love" - [Official Video] FU**CKin aweSOME

Green Day Ditch Politics To Party On Upcoming Album Triology.

'We didn't want to come across as politicians,' Bille Joe Armstrong tells MTV News following the premiere of Green Day's new 'Oh Love' video.

By now, you've no doubt gawked at Green Day's brand-new "Oh Love" video, which is heavy on models and light on, well, pretty much everything else (it does, of course, also rock).

And that was precisely what the band — and director Samuel Bayer — was going for, as Green Day explained when they sat down with MTV News's Sway Calloway for an in-depth interview following "Oh Love's" premiere. It seems the song isn't some high-minded political scorcher. Instead, it focuses on more, uh, important issues.

"It's kind of a tension ballad ... instead of pulling at your heart strings, it's like a noose pulling at your heart a little bit, and trying to keep your emotions intact," frontman Billie Joe Armstrong explained. "It's very lustful, which is kind of a subject we haven't gotten into in a long time."

"It's about tension between your heart and other parts of your body, and figuring out, or maybe not figuring out what those do to you," bassist Mike Dirnt added. "But you've seen the video, and I'm pretty sure you guys figured that out."

And if avoiding politics may seem like a bit of a departure for Green Day — especially considering the overtones of American Idiot and 21st Century Breakdown, not to mention there's an election looming in November — well, you'd be right to make that assumption. On the upcoming ¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tre! the band tried very hard to avoid the subject entirely ... they just wanna party.

"It was a time for us to step away [from that], because we didn't want to come across as politicians," Armstrong said. "We're in a band first and foremost, and we wanted to have a good time making music. So it was kind of a way of us getting back to basics."

"There's a lot of that in these records," Dirnt added. "It's kind of like getting ready and charging to the party on the first record, and then getting to the party on the second record and having an absolute great time and overstaying your welcome and doing a lot of damage, and then kind of looking for your car keys and doing some self-reflecting on the third record. "

¡Uno! [Official Trailer With Album Cover]

Tracking list of i UNO !

1. Nuclear Family.

2. Stay The Night.

3. Carpe Diem.

4. Let Yourself Go.

5. Kill The DJ.

6. Fell For You.

7. Loss Of Control.

8. Troublemaker.

9. Angel Blue.

10. Sweet 16.

11. Rusty James.

12. Oh Love

Good News Folks ! We're gonna see Green Day Live soon \m/

Los Angeles: Punk rock band Green Day are planning to play 3,000 shows in support of their new albums - `Uno`, `Dos` and `Tre`.

The `Boulevard Of Broken Dreams` hitmakers band are releasing three records in four months and said that for such an ambitious project they will have to have a suitably sized tour to match, reported a website.

"The full tour, we`ll probably do about 3,000 shows. Right now, we`re just warming up and getting ready to go out there, start swinging. The sky is the limit right now," said bassist Mike Dirnt.

Fontman Billie Joe Armstrong, who completes the band with drummer Tre Cool, also said they always keep up with new music and let it evolve the direction of their own sound.

"For us, it was always a slow Evolution through time. It was always about taking the right kind of risks. But, not trying to do something where you`re pushing too hard to try to evolve into something that you`re not.

"It takes time, and we always listen to younger bands; we really like a band called the Biters, and Best Coast. It`s just a matter of letting yourself evolve," Armstrong said.

`Uno`, `Dos` and `Tre` will be released between September and January next year.