American Idiot (cançó)

«American Idiot»
Senzill de Green Day
Cara-B	"Too Much Too Soon", "Shoplifter", "Governator"
Llançament	14 de setembre del 2004
Format	CD
Gènere	Punk rock
Duració	2:54
Discogràfica	Reprise
Compositor(s)	Green Day Billie Joe Armstrong
Productor(s)	Green Day Rob Cavallo
Cronologia de senzills de Green Day
"I Fought the Law" (2004) "American Idiot" (2004) "Shoplifter" (2004)

American Idiot és el primer senzill de l'àlbum homònim de la banda americana de rock punk, Green Day. Va ser tret a la venda l'any 2004, i llavors va entrar la llista de Billboard Hot 100, en el lloc número 61.

La cançó va ser escrita pels tres membres de la banda i co-produida per Rob Cavallo i per Green Day. American Idiot tracta asumptes del govern dels Estats Units, comandat per George W. Bush, amb temes sobre drets dels gais, propaganda, mitjans publicitaris, entre altres.

Lletra de la cançó

1. Don't want to be an American idiot.
2. Don't want a nation under the new media
3. And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
4. The subliminal mind fuck America.
5. Welcome to a new kind of tension.
6. All across the alien nation.
7. Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
8. Television dreams of tomorrow.
9. We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
10. For that's enough to argue.
11. Well maybe I'm the faggot America.
12. I'm not a part of a redneck agenda.
13. Now everybody do the propaganda.
14. And sing along to the age of paranoia.
15. Welcome to a new kind of tension.
16. All across the alien nation.
17. Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
18. Television dreams of tomorrow.
19. We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
20. For that's enough to argue.
21. Don't want to be an American idiot.
22. One nation controlled by the media.
23. Information age of hysteria.
24. It's calling out to idiot America.
25. Welcome to a new kind of tension.
26. All across the alien nation.
27. Where everything isn't meant to be okay.
28. Television dreams of tomorrow.
29. We're not the ones who're meant to follow.
30. For that's enough to argue.