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  • You're not my type!

  • Did the All-American Rejects steal their name from this song?

  • @quanmandetil yeah, they did xDD

  • What's the last thing he says before the song ends? I can't make it out.

  • @Minority721 Dont know :(

  • i got the cd! it was so badassery...my grandma seen the news report while i was watching mtv which i was like 13 or 14 and she was like "didnt i buy you that cd?" and i was like "yeah its not that bad if i had a 6 year old they'd be listening to it!" lol and in turn i did that with my nephew...hes 5 and a HUGE green day fan! lol

  • in response to the people talking about the letter it was dookie. and it happened a few times because of ernie being on the back of the cd.. each time i think it was a grandma buying it for thier grandkid... now my grandma DID BUY ME DOOKIE FOR XMAS! i was tired of borrowing the tape from friends...

  • Nice try lady 4 accounts is not gonna do it

  • N unlike a lot of ppl the ones I first loved were from nimrod

  • @razberiix My First song was Holiday. And my favorite song is Geek stink breath.

  • I LOVE THIS SONG SO MUCH it's one of the first I heard and fell in love with

  • 4 people do what they're told

  • I bet the dislikes are from the 4 profiles of that lady who wrote the complaint letter...

  • IT'S AN INSULT FOR A GREEN DAY SONG TO HAVE A DISLIKE BUTTON

    YOUTUBE FIX IT!!!!!!!!

  • i think, i think, that the like button needs to be bigger cuz 4 people missed it. well its either that or those 4 people are fucked up cuz greenday is the most fuckin awesome band thats ever lived if u dissagree then why the hell did u even listen to this song? yeah, just sayin!

  • Does anyone else think the all-American rejects got their name from this song?

  • @TheMorelemonpledge they did actually! it's pretty cool.

  • There is sooooo may of those bimbo / gangsters in my school I sing this to.. -.-'

  • i wonder if she ever heard this? i want her email XP

  • I love how their old songs is just what I feel about some people! c:

  • i think that would feel pretty bad;)

  • Hey unnamed WHINING bitch,you have been portrayed as idiot in Green Day song,how does that feel?

  • in a short time this song become one of my favorites with having a blast ... jackass, fashion victim.. and a lot of others...BUT i am gonna say that the new album have some good songs...like peacemarker and others... american idiot is brilliant thestory behind the songs the emotion .. is more art than music...warning have amazing songs and they looks awesome.. waiting.. blood sex and booze fashion victim i alrready said....then come the old songs...nothing to say ... all of them awesome!

  • Green day puts all of my emotions into songs like this. Great song try posting more like this like Jackass or scattered.

  • i love old greenday

  • its mikes and tres at 1:55

  • MOM GREEN DAY WROTE A SONG ABOUT YOUR LETTER!!

  • @1:55 there is where I think I can hear some kind of voice... maybe Billie's voice but I CAN'T understand what it says.... please!! help!! :)

  • @Jebus2835 me too. ow paper cut!!

  • what does he say in the end?

  • i turned it up a few times so i could hear the song in the kitchen while i got somthin and as i walked out i swear i heard the sound that goes off when u turn up the volume... guess my computer likes this song to lol XD

  • THUMBS UP IF YOU THOUGHT THIS IS A JERK SONG -.-

  • @3DLyrics

    you didn't really expect to get any thumbs up..did you?

  • So When The Smoke Clears Here I Am! Your Reject All-American!

  • i just saw the letters from both sides then i came here to listen to this song ..lol bitch got owned

  • I feel like Billie, because there's this girl who is acting just like the lady who sent the reject letter. I sent the douchebag this song.. she's gonna get owned

  • im confused.. the lady that sent a complaint letter said she was uninpresed by the laguage and the only ''BAD WORDS'' i heard was shut up and hell... :I

  • Ah look the stupid bitch created to YouTube acounts to dislike this vid

  • Yes! Woo! Go Billie! Lady you just got PWNED by the greatest man ever... How does that make you feel?!

  • my fav line: " The difference between you and me, I do what I want, You do what ur told." god i love it!!!! You totally owned that stupid lady Billie!!

  • falling from grace,right on my face...*splat* ow...

  • the 2 people who dont like this song must be rejects :3

  • lol this song has hell a lot :3?

  • reject and stuart and the avenue are my favs

  • the women who complained just inspired one of my favorite songs

  • @metalheadofrock yeah i heard about the letter, what happened anyway?

  • @TheEric1203 some lady's kid got the dookie album for his birthday and he started saying bad words and so his mom got mad and sent a complaint letter to billie joe

  • @metalheadofrock oh. yeah haha i found the video showing it with billie's response letter. I think it was Nimrod tho, wasnt it?  But either way.... Billie fuckin bashed her good lol. "See, that's the difference between you and me. I do what I want.... and you do what you're told!"

  • @TheEric1203 nah, it was dookie.

  • @Fallofthehateful17 oh. i see its not Nimrod now, but it seems like it was Insomniac because the mother mentions that she likes When I Come Around... whatever tho

  • The difference between you and me: I do what I want and you do what your told.

    GOD DAMMIT I LOVE THAT LINE.

  • if you guys wanna see the actual letters, go to /watch?v=ktJVrXznFGI

  • if you wanna read both of the letters, which you really should cause its awesome, google "letters of note: I write for myself and il say anything i damn well please"

  • @badchadwick lol there's a guy in the comments who thinks they're talking about Billy Joel. Thanks for the "link" xD

  • you gotta hand it to them. these are some true lyrics. 

  • Wow, 2 people r rejects

  • @XoxshannonluvyaxoX  In this case being a reject is a good thing though. Therefore, 2 people "do what they're told".

  • @duckling109876 Wow I'm amazed at your ignorance. Consider the bands Underoath and Dance Gavin Dance. Their line-ups 5-10 years ago were completely different. Underoath has only one founding member left and recently left the band, while DGD has none. So this means they have always been "the same" band? Green Day's music HAS changed. They even have an extra guitarist lol. Nevertheless, they live on.

  • There is no "Old" or "New" Green Day. Green Day was always the same band, and will always be the band, saying that there is an "Old Green Day", and that it's better than the "New Green Day" is like saying that you expect something to ever change. Dumb assholes

  • This song is practically over before it starts. Love it tho

  • Wut wuld we do without green day? They no exactly how we feel nd then they put it in a kick ass song imean they no how i feel better then i do

  • @Xxpunx80xX They know we feel pissed off?

  • @Xxpunx80xX you totally got the point why i love green day

  • @Xxpunx80xX there's a new invention called a dictionary, you should try it.

  • i got here from the letter and i thaught that was kinda FUNNY

    nononono FUCKING HILYY!!!

  • It's not about a girl it's about a letter received from an angry parent

  • If the girl thought that Insomniac was bad, it would be awesome to see the look on her face when she hear platypus or take back.

  • i got busted because my mom was talking to me and i was listenin to this song at the same time and when i sang "shut the hell up" she pulled my NEW earplugs and broke them then she said what the fuck did you say i looked at her and said it was the lyric in the song you frickin idiot i showed her then she got me super nice "black skullcandy earplugs and said srry hahahah

  • is this song where the all american rejects got their name?

  • @MzDark some ppl says so, but im not sure.

  • @MzDark some say so, i think its true. in wikipedia, it says The name has two different theories on how it was made, one being a mix of two suggestions, "The Rejects" and "The All Americans". The other being that it came from a song "Reject" by Green Day, with the chorus, "a reject, all american".

  • @Giuu1039 oooh okay, :) thanks for the answer.

  • billie joe you are awesome.  That lady who wrote the complaint letter just got OWNED!!! XD

  • omg, this song is so... punk!! FUCKYOU ppl that say Green Day sold out!!

  • "So listen up and shut the hell up", I like how he says that

  • "I do what I want, and you do what you're told" Favorite part xD

  • 1:54 FUCK ! i don't know what the fuck billie say D:

  • @GDookie16 well, its on the screen tho<3

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  • That lady that sent that letter to Billie is a bitch! Green Day isn't made for 8 year olds, well the ones that cuss aren't. So that bitch shouldn't be mad at Billie for making awesome music!!!

  • hmm, your rejects all-american... thats not coincidental at all with the all american rejects... lol!

  • 2 people got told to hate this song

    GREEN DAY 4EVER!!!

  • one of the best sogs on the album.... and probably the most underrated. it's kinda gay that it's so hard for a song to be rightfully apreciated without being a single.

  • 2 idiots watched this video

  • @xxxax31xxx so trueee!

  • This song was written towards that one woman who sent a complaint letter to greenday, about the words they were using. She got told offffffffffffff :D

  • The person(s) who this song was about got Pwn'd

  • two people are reject-all americans.

  • Gotem.

  • they dont have to try to be good

  • Who ever that women was who got completly told by Billie Joe, she damn well deserved it.

  • That Effin Woman got owned so Effin hard.

  • Why does the word 'reject' remind me of my life a bit?

  • Looks like 2 retards who couldn't see so well hit the dislike button. My advice : Get new spectacles.

  • wow, so the All American Rejects really derived from this song,....... amazing

  • i love this song! that freak that sent that letter got PWNED!!! haha is this where the All-American Rejects got there name? 0:25

  • @BobTheMentalPatient Probably

  • The women who sent the complaint letter got owned......

  • @YourTooob haha!! totally! don't mess with billie joe or green day!!

  • This song is actually about an incident where an 8 year olds grandma gave him Insomniac and then he started singing the lyrics with all their explicitness in front of his mom. His mom wrote a letter to Billie and he actually wrote back. So the lyrics probably express what he wrote to her!

  • @hayjude99 thats true but what you don't know is that he got the lyrics from the letter he wrote back, I do what i want you do what your told" was in the letter

  • @Joypadjunkginger yes I know that. Look at my post again where I say that billie actually wrote back. And yes I have seen the latter and I know those lyrics come from it.

  • haha sounds like there dissin all American rejects

  • @ismayboi the all-american rejects first started 1 year after this song came out ... :)

  • @sims2roxlove Haha, funny! And I love both bands so it's even better!

  • ive listened to this song 186 times back to back to back!

  • yet another song that i dedicate to my "loving" mother.

  • haha i'm pretty sure its this song i remember reading about

    how this was written after this little girl's grandma or someone like that bought this little girl a Nimrod cd.

    and then the mom was complaining about how its so bad with all the cuss words & what not.

    and Green Day was like We write what we want. You dont like us, We dont give a fuck.

  • @SKsarakristine i agree she should fuck off and let green day fans be green day fans

  • @SKsarakristine It was an 8 year old boy's mom whom wrote Green Day the note after his grandma bought the CD for his birthday and it inspired him to write this song. He even uses a few phrases used in his response letter XD

  • @SKsarakristine well no, actually it was a grandma who bought a Dookie cd for her granddaughter and then she got angry because of the explicit lyrics. it couldn't be nimrod if this song is in nimrod.

  • @Brigister well no, actually it was the grandma who bought Insomniac. At the top of the letter from the "irate mom" it reads RE: Insomniac. That is all.

  • @mudslicker1 greendayauthority . com /images/billiejoe_letter . gif (delete the spaces) Check this out, it's the official letter. It doesn't say Nimrod, nor Insomniac, nor Dookie. But the woman talks about When I Come Around so I supposed the grandma bought Dookie. That is all.

  • @Brigister dude greatest thing i ever read!!!! XD

  • @willioimicherio2121 i know right xDD he's great :P

  • @Brigister You're looking at the "cropped" version. Check out this URL and you will see the top of the letter where she writes to their address in Berserkely which includes the date and to the right it reads RE: Insomnia.

    duckduckgrayduck. wordpress. com/ 2011/05/11/ green-day-and-a-parent-exchang­e-words/

  • @mudslicker1 It says "Page not found" :/ anyways, I found another "uncropped" version on Google Image, so I saw that you were right. Sorry I didn't know it, thanks for correcting me ;)

  • @Brigister Sorry bout the URL....not too good with all the delete-the-spaces-blah-blah-bl­ah. But hehe...really....when you think about it....Insomniac would be the album [er, um...tape] to make mommy want to medicate. And I wasn't trying to correct you, just passing along a bit more information so we can all get on board and get it straight. Peace.

  • @mudslicker1 Yep well thanks for it :D

  • That might be the best punk song ever written.

  • is it just me or does it sound like he says something else towards the end at 2:02 ?

  • @PretzleRox he does say something.

  • @21gunsidiot do you know what he says?

  • @PretzleRox no, sorry, i can't figure it out but i'm trying. i'll reply you if i'll.

  • fuck i love greenday very much so amazing rock and roll..xD

  • there is someone in my class who reminds me of the mom who wrote the complaint to green day. She gave me a half hour lecture when I said "crap".

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  • @BoredLikeHell1000 Yeah that had happened to me once.I told my friend to shut up and this classmate of mine start telling me about human rights to express their opinion and about democracy and stuff.

  • There's a video now of the letter. That bitch really got burned...

    watch?v=ktJVrXznFGI

  • @OrangeSammi this video isn´t aviable o.O

    i would loved to read that...-.-

  • @AliceFantasies Well I just just checked and if you search(on youtube) the name exactly, it comes up. It's called "Green Day - Reject COMPLAINT LETTER!!"

  • @OrangeSammi i know,that´s exactly waht i did!

    maybe it´s not aviable in my country...

  • yeah billie is right

    Justin noballs bieber does suk

  • it made me so tired to see the text getting bigger on the display :D

    btw great song and nice lyrics good job

  • @ellenrox97 why???

  • good song to listen to when you're pissed off :D

  • @stuartandtheavenue93 Yeah just like with platypus and other gd songs.

  • @ellenrox97 though i dont agree with your opinion i must admit that was one of the funnest insults i have EVER heared xD

  • i love Green Day. new and old stuff .. both amazing :)

  • great green day song :D

  • yes 1 of my fave songs witch discribes me i do what i want

  • Amazing... Green Day is the best band in the world! Old and new GD are still both pwning every other band!

  • @GreenDay72271 hahaha

  • @GreenDay72271 THATS TOTTALY RIGHT. <3

  • @GreenDay72271 So fuckin true

  • has to be my favorite song ever!!

    well next too worry rock XD

  • Whoever that song was written about got TOLD. xD

  • I Just Read "Reject" came from an incident where a boy received Green Day's previous album, Insomniac, for his eighth birthday from his grandma. The boy started singing Green Day's songs (with explicit lyrics), and his mother got angry and wrote a complaint letter to Armstrong; Armstrong wrote an actual letter back to her, and this song was based on his response.

  • Lol, nice xD

    It amazes me how Green Day just wrote about pretty much whatever they wanted.

  • @SPLATTERBLOTCH I heard it was Dookie. And Granny bought it cause there was Ernie on the cover... lol :D

  • @jojijojo123 it was to a mom who got mad about his explicit songs and wrote a hate letter to him... he wrote back and PWNd

  • @jojijojo123 the song is about the mother of a kid who got Insomniac and (the kid) was singing out loud "explicit content", so the mother got angry and wrote a letter to Billie Joe, who actually answered, and the songs kinda how he answered her.

  • @jojijojo123 i think it was a letter a "concerned" parent wrote to Green day about her 60 yr old mom bought a green day tape for an 8 year old and she is mad at greenday?

  • @jojijojo123 A lady that wrote him an angry letter, to which he replied and wrote this song about. I'm sure I'm the 13th person to tell you this though.

  • @jojijojo123 lol, this song is written because some bitch complained to green day about their swearing and how her son started singing them. billie joe wrote a letter back to her, and later wrote this song. yes, she did get told!

  • @jojijojo123 that song was for a lady who wrote a complaint letter to billie joe telling him that her son had been listening to a song on insomniac with inappropriate lyrics..so billie wrote this for her

  • @jojijojo123 Especially at the part "So listen and shut the hell up!" lol

  • @jojijojo123 Lmfao I've done some research and this song is to this kid's grandma

  • @ThePOLARBEAR721 bahahahahaha, are you serious???

  • @gdbilliejoe4evr hahahahaha yeah I would never lie about green day

  • @ThePOLARBEAR721 nonono it was to the kids mom, the grandma bought the record for the kid, and the kids mom heard some of the songs and she was shocked, and she wrote the letter, then she got told off by billie joe :D XD

  • @jojijojo123 it was written for a mom who sent a letter to BJ and green day saying that she wished they would swear less cuz her 8 yr old son listened to them and BJ wrote back and pretty much said fuck you

  • @moviemoviemadness Seriously, well I heart Green day, but she had a point... But there are clean versions...

  • @jojijojo123 Watch this; You'd love it:

    /watch?v=ktJVrXznFGI&feature=r­elated

  • @jojijojo123 "Reject" came from an incident where a boy received Green Day's previous album, Insomniac, for his eighth birthday from his grandma. The boy started singing Green Day's songs (with explicit lyrics), and his mother got angry and wrote a complaint letter to Armstrong; Armstrong wrote an actual letter back to her, and this song was based on his response.

  • @jojijojo123 fuuck yeahhh!!!i could see ther face just like :0