Hm. I really don't know what to think of Green Day.
I liked the old, more punky n experimental stuff, when I was young,
but I haven't really listened to them for a long while.
Then there was this American Idiot thing,
and yeah... the lyrics sucked, the music was actually ok.
But your first example is fine
And I think there's no person alive who wouldn't understand why this is better than the second ...thing