Green Day Singer Blasts MTV for Ignoring Rock Artists

Sure, the musical landscape has drastically changed in the past 20 years. Pop and hip-hop dominate radio, but in a world where Disturbed just landed their fifth straight No. 1 album and bands like Iron Maiden and Slipknot still sell out arenas, can’t there be some hard rock featured or support of up-and-coming rock acts? In a nutshell, Billie Joe Armstrong was disappointed to see the lack of rock featured in this year’s VMAs, as he expressed with two tweets on Aug. 30:

"just watched VMAs. seriously @MTV not a single young rock n roll band?"

"there r great up and coming rock bands headlining festivals AND on social media. what thee hell?"

As for this year’s Best Rock Video award, it was given to Fall Out Boy for “Uma Thurman. Sadly Billie Joe, as long as you have cookie cutter pop stars who have zero shred of songwriting ability and sell out arenas full of screaming 12 year old girls, I'm afraid rock has gone by the wayside. Luckily, the Golden God awards is gaining steam each year and continues to honor Rock's best...past, present and future.