Go Behind The Scenes On Green Day’s Video For Oh Yeah!

Green Day have released a behind-the-scenes look at their recent Oh Yeah! video.

There’s a week to go now until the release of Green Day’s new album Father Of All… on February 7, and in anticipation for album number 13 the punk rock titans have revealed a look into the making of the video for their latest single, Oh Yeah!.

The original clip sees frontman Billie Joe Armstrong getting hit by a car (sure), as well as drummer Tré Cool channeling his inner Ron Burgundy, and bassist Mike Dirnt being pretty much the worst security guard ever. And now fans can go inside the Malia James-directed video – not just taking a look at how it was made, but also the inspiration behind it.

In an interview with Kerrang! last year, Billie Joe explained that Oh Yeah! was “about being freaked out around the polarisation that we live in right now,” he said. “Whether it’s kids getting shot in schools, or the closest thing that America has ever seen to fascism. Light stuff…”

Similarly this ties in with the themes of Father Of All… as a whole, too, with the singer and guitarist explaining how he was inspired lyrically this time around: “It’s coming from a place of feeling like you’re out of control, and you’re not in charge of your own body anymore. It paints pictures or vignettes of what life is like for me and for other people that, I feel like, are desperate. And I mean that in an empathetic way, where people in America have become very desperate with their situations. There’s factories being shut down, gentrification…”

Watch the making of Oh Yeah! below: