Green Day's Billie Joe upset at MTV's abuse of "manufactured child"

She was just a bit stoned doing a walk-thru performance... if I had a nickel for every band I've seen do that...

perhaps shows that a man who made a video mocking the mentally ill probably shouldn't get much say in the matter.

agree with the bloke. She's blatently had a breakdown and needs not to be exploited. She's only like 25 or something for fucks sake. I think its really sad - regardless of the fact that she's a celebrity she's a young single mother having a fucking shit time and not handling things.

I know to an extent BJM has come into success by a wildly different route than said former child star, but when it comes to exploiting his own image in order to be successful, he can't really claim to be wholly innocent. Every single schmoe in a band wants to be on the front cover of the paper. What is clearly offensive is the industry pressuring female r&b stars to walk and talk like strippers, but is that pressure really there?...Or is it a case of girls complicitly getting down to the basest form of attracting attention. Let's face it, mainstream r&b is so fuckin generic, that maybe they (stars and their surrounding suits) think it's the ONLY way to attract attention to songs that are mostly highly polished turds.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWSjUe0FyxQ