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In an ordinary world
In an ordinary world








A modern-day twist on House Party this is not. As viewers might be able to imagine, this plan does not go as well as Perry had hoped. Music has all but faded from his life in the past 20 years, and Perry is working at the hardware store he and his brother (Chris Messina) run.įeeling dejected by his family, he decides one day that he’s had enough of the everyday grind and launches an impromptu idea to host a party at the Drake Hotel. In fact, as the film contrasts its opening with Perry’s more laid-back current life, it’s almost like a glimpse into an alternate reality in which Armstrong’s own band had faded into obscurity soon after the 1994 release of breakthrough album Dookie instead of continuing to generate hits for another couple decades.ĭespite the opening’s focus on Perry’s musical heyday, the bulk of the film follows Perry still adjusting to suburban life in New York City with his wife (Selma Blair) and two kids (the elder of whom is played by Madisyn Shipman of Nickelodeon’s Game Shakers). So right from the very first frame, viewers are clued in to the fact that Armstrong - the longtime lead singer of Green Day - is riffing on his own persona and career. Skunks, the fictional rock band once fronted by Perry Miller (Billie Joe Armstrong). Roots matter to me, I guess.Ordinary World starts out with a flashback to a 1995 performance by L.E.S. People ask me, like, “Why do you maintain these relationships for so long?” I don’t know. I’m very deeply connected to Adrienne, and I’m very deeply connected to Green Day. I think about this song as an extension of “2000 Light Years Away,” 20-something years apart. We tend to overthink the things that are not really important. It’s just finding out that the things in life that are more simple are actually the biggest connections that you can have. Then I ended up writing this song, “Ordinary World,” that sounded more country, and it just sort of fit the movie. One of them was “Outlaws,” which is also on Revolution Radio.

#In an ordinary world movie#

I was in a movie called Ordinary World in 2016, and the director, Lee Kirk, wanted a song that kind of summed up the character’s life. His punk-rock dreams however, have yet to die. Instead of a career in the music industry, Miller works an ordinary job and lives with his ordinary family. The lead character can be viewed as Billie Joe himself in an alternate world in which Green Day was never successful.

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The lyrics are told from the perspective of the character Armstrong plays in the film, Perry Miller. The title of the song is also a callback to the song “Extraordinary Girl” from American Idiot, which opens with the lyrics “She’s an extraordinary girl/in an ordinary world” Armstrong was happy enough with the outcome of this track that he opted to include it on the album. “Ordinary World” wasn’t originally written for the album, but for the soundtrack of the movie of the same name. An acoustic ballad, written in the rhetorical style of folk classics such as Bob Dylan’s “Blowin' In The Wind” and Pete Seeger’s “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” – which Green Day had already referenced in American Idiot's “Letterbomb” – “Ordinary World,” presents verses composed of hypotetical questions left unanswered, and provides an optimistic atmosphere to close the album.








In an ordinary world