Green Day Hang With Groupies In "Oh Love"

Making a killer power-pop record dirtier and back to basics, Green Day released a new video for "Oh Love," the lead track to be taken from the punk pop trio's "¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!" trilogy, a series of new LPs to be released from September 24 to January 14, 2013. Fans of Green Day, prepare to have your cup continuously runnething over for the next six months or so.
Green Day have spoken about the inspiration for "Oh Love," saying the song is about "shooting from the crotch." Speaking to MTV News about the track, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said: "'Oh Love' is kind of like leading with your heart and not necessarily with your brain as much. And also kind of maybe losing your mind, and shooting a little bit more from the crotch area." The mid-tempo song matches Armstrong's description of the "¡Uno!" disc as stripped-down with minimal instrumentation.
Green Day successfully scale back their grandiose sound on "Oh Love," which is a choppy midtempo jam that recalls the ambling power pop of the group's pre-concept album turn-of-the-century stuff. The song's genre features elements of the band's early pop punk style, as well as similarities to their recent alternative rock releases. The power pop song is a tight, addicting bundle of pop-hook class and crunchy-punk fundamentals. It eventually opens into a catchy, sing-along chorus and even features a colorful and crisply strummed guitar solo.
The "Wake Me Up When September Ends" rockers are returning to their roots with this new classic rock video. The Samuel Bayer-directed video finds Armstrong and his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool walk in to perform the punk-tinged ballad and up to their elbows in a bevy of beautiful and sufficiently tattooed models, who languidly lounge around a dilapidated party space while the guys rock out. Green Day sound the way you originally loved 'em, and refreshed: heavier and hardened from their time in the trenches but back in the garage, ready for rapture.