We get a much better understanding into the workings of the characters.Īmerican Idiot the album was written as a rock opera in the vein of The Who’s Tommy and Quadrophenia and Pink Floyd’s The Wall as a guideline. With a relatively unknown main cast of Mat Dwyer as Johnny, John Mondelo as Tunny and Ronald MacKinnon as Will and the intimate surrounds of Chapel Off Chapel (Melbourne’s Off-Broadway) the story isn’t distracted by the celebrity of the 2018 production. Johnny smoothers his pain in drugs, Tunny joins the army and loses a leg in the war and Will gets his girlfriend pregnant and suffers depression. However, life never favours the disadvantaged and every step forward is two steps back for them. Set after 9/11, it is centred around three disadvantaged characters, Johnny, Will and Tunny and the individual paths they follow to try to define their lives. ‘American Idiot’ is a difficult story to deliver. This new production from theatrical.presents is more organic and focused back on the message.
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A psychedelic rock opera with the Flaming Lips about her Dead Petz? A rootsy country return with Younger Now? Last time out, she went full Eighties with the neon-and-leather synth bombast of her excellent Plastic Hearts, featuring Stevie Nicks, Dua Lipa, Billy Idol, and Joan Jett.I wasn’t a fan of the first Australian production of Green Day’s ‘American Idiot’ in 2018. Ever since she twerked from Disney kid to molly-gobbling party monster with Bangerz, she’s made every move a drastic departure. Miley’s face card has always been her honey-roasted country voice, which has carried her through all her different pop lives. As Brandi said on the podcast, “Only Miley knows the truth.” The narratives are fucking hilarious, but it’s so great.” Yet Miley herself took care not to deny a single one. “The song did come out on birthday - was that on purpose? I don’t know, can’t say,” she said, adding, “It makes Miley seem like an absolute genius. Her sister Brandi argued about the rumors on her podcast, Your Favorite Thing. She gives fans room to flesh out the narrative, no matter how much of it is imaginary, working in the “Paul is dead”/“Tupac is alive” tradition.
Is she quoting the Bruno Mars song Liam played at their wedding? In the video - released on his birthday - is she wearing his suit from the Avengers premiere, where he told her to behave? It removed me from what no longer was serving its purpose.”īut Miley brilliantly packs the song with secret clues for fans to decode, learning from the Taylor Swift/Olivia Rodrigo school. She even sings about the real-life experience of seeing their Malibu house go up in flames, with the words “We were right till we weren’t/Built a home and watched it burn.” As she told Rolling Stone’s Brittany Spanos in a 2020 cover story, the fire “did what I couldn’t do myself. She says goodbye to her ex with the vow “I can buy myself flowers.” Everybody could figure out the connections to her ex-husband, Liam Hemsworth after a decade together, their marriage lasted less than a year, crashing and burning in 2019. “Flowers” became her biggest hit because it’s her realest song ever, her poignant ode to starting over after a divorce and learning to love herself. As she recently said, “You can say I am a twerking, pot-smoking, foulmouthed hillbilly, but I am not a liar. Hannah Montana was a fun house of mirrors, identity-wise: Her dad was played by her real-life dad, Billy Ray Cyrus, the “Achy Breaky Heart” dude, who had already played himself in a nightmare scene in a David Lynch movie.Įven in her first Top 10 hit, “See You Again,” 15 years ago, Miley was singing about her personality crises, with the chorus hook “My best friend Leslie said, ‘Oh, she’s just being Miley!’ ” And she’s always been Miley ever since, through all her many incarnations.
She started out as a Disney moppet playing a fictional pop star with a secret life as a regular all-American girl.
Miley’s only 30, but she’s already been a mega-famous artist for nearly two decades. This moment is the cherry on top of one of modern pop’s longest, most bizarre stories. “Flowers,” the lead single from Friday’s Saturn-return post-divorce album Endless Summer Vacation, marks the culmination of her unlikely journey from Hannah Montana to world-wise adulthood. But now she has finally transformed into the kind of old-school grown-up legend she’s always wanted to be. It’s been 10 years since her last Number One hit, “Wrecking Ball,” at the height of her tabloid-scandal, electro-sleaze Bangerz era. “Flowers” is more than just a surprise comeback hit - it’s the triumph of Mileyism.
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