Editing Green Day (section)

===Music style===
Green Day has generated controversy over whether their musical style and [[Selling out|major-label status]] constitutes "true [[Punk rock|punk]]".<ref name="softpedia2005">{{cite web|url= http://news.softpedia.com/news/Green-Day-Still-A-Punk-Band-10426.shtml|title= Green Day Still A Punk Band|date= October 5, 2005 |access-date=December 4, 2010|first=Mihaela|last=Stroia|publisher=Softpedia|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728121625/http://news.softpedia.com/news/Green-Day-Still-A-Punk-Band-10426.shtml|archive-date=July 28, 2013}}</ref> In reaction to both the style of music and the background of the band, [[John Lydon]], former frontman of the 1970s punk band the [[Sex Pistols]] commented, "So there we are fending off all that and it pisses me off that years later a wank outfit like Green Day hop in and nick all that and attach it to themselves. They didn't earn their wings to do that and if they were true punk they wouldn't look anything like they do."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=13310 |title=John Lydon Calls Green Day "Plonk" Not "Punk" |last=Melia |first=Daniel |access-date=September 11, 2006 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070211060301/http://www.gigwise.com/news.asp?contentid=13310 |archive-date=February 11, 2007}}</ref> However, others in the punk rock scene would come to the defense of the band on their punk status. [[Bad Religion]] lead guitarist [[Brett Gurewitz]] and founder of the independent punk label [[Epitaph Records]] would state, "They [Green Day] are a punk band, but you know, punk is the legacy of [[rock and roll]], and Green Day are the biggest band in the genre."<ref name="earlyyears">{{cite web |title=Green Day – The Early Years |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TpfOvCPTHk&feature=youtu.be | archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/2TpfOvCPTHk| archive-date=December 11, 2021 | url-status=live|via=YouTube |publisher=[[Spotify]] |access-date=August 15, 2021 |year=2017}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Armstrong has discussed the group's status of being a punk band on a major record label, saying, "Sometimes I think we've become redundant because we're this big band now; we've made a lot of money—we're not punk rock anymore. But then I think about it and just say, 'You can take us out of a punk rock environment, but you can't take the punk rock out of us.{{' "}}<ref name="softpedia2005"/> In 2021, Armstrong condemned the band's labeling as "pop-punk" by critics in a [[New York (magazine)|Vulture]] magazine interview, stating, "I never really liked that term (pop punk), it turned into sort of a genre. I never thought of myself as a pop artist. I've always been left of center. To say you're a pop-punker ... it never sat well with me." Armstrong acknowledged the band's more melodic punk style compared to other bands from the Bay Area scene it emerged from, but also brought up the band's performance alongside East Bay hardcore bands like [[Neurosis (band)|Neurosis]], Engage, [[Spitboy]], [[Blatz (band)|Blatz]], and [[Filth (band)|Filth]].<ref name="jenkins">{{cite web |last1=Jenkins |first1=Craig |title=The Best and Most Misunderstood of Green Day, According to Billie Joe Armstrong |url=https://www.vulture.com/article/interview-billie-joe-armstrong-green-day-history.html |website=[[Vulture (magazine)|Vulture]] |access-date=April 28, 2022 |date=April 22, 2021 |archive-date=June 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220630140823/https://www.vulture.com/article/interview-billie-joe-armstrong-green-day-history.html |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2006, English rock musician [[Noel Gallagher]] of the Britpop band [[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] complained about the band semi-jokingly, claiming that the band had ripped off his song "[[Wonderwall (song)|Wonderwall]]" with "[[Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Green Day song)|Boulevard of Broken Dreams]]".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a40981/noel-gallagher-hits-out-at-green-day.html|title=Noel Gallagher hits out at Green Day|access-date=July 3, 2009|first=Matt|last=Houghton|date=December 21, 2006|work=Digital Spy|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091010192701/http://www.digitalspy.com/music/a40981/noel-gallagher-hits-out-at-green-day.html|archive-date=October 10, 2009}}</ref>