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| alt = The album's cover shows a piece of stencil graffiti art on a brick wall depicting a man and a woman in a passionate embrace.

| released = {{Start date|2009|5|15}}<br>

| recorded = January 2008 – April 2009

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| studio = [[Ocean Way Recording]], [[Hollywood~~, Los Angeles|Hollywood]]~~; Studio 880, [[Oakland, California]]; Jel Studios, [[Newport Beach, California]]; Costa Mesa Studios, [[Costa Mesa, California]]

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* [[~~Pop-punk~~Punk rock]]

* [[pop-punk ~~rock~~]]

* [[arena rock]]

* [[power pop]]

* [[alternative rock]]

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| label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]]

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* [[Butch Vig]]

* Green Day

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'''''21st Century Breakdown''''' is the eighth studio album by the American [[Rock music|rock]] band [[Green Day]], released on May 15, 2009, through [[Reprise Records]]. Green Day commenced work on the record in January 2006 and forty-five songs were written by vocalist/ and guitarist [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] by October 2007, but the band members did not enter studio work until January 2008.<ref name="NME">{{cite news |title=Green Day break studio silence on new album |url=https://www.nme.com/news/greenday/31628 |work=[[NME]] |date=October 8, 2007 |access-date=May 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426084055/http://www.nme.com/news/greenday/31628 |archive-date=April 26, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Fricke, 48">Fricke, p. 48</ref>

21st Century Breakdown is a [[concept album]]/[[rock opera]] much like their previous album ''[[American Idiot]]'' (2004). ~~Armstrong~~According ~~has~~to ~~described~~the band, the album asis a ~~"snapshot~~rumination of "the era in which we live as we question and try to make sense of the selfish manipulation going on around us~~, whether it be the government, religion, media or frankly any form of authority~~".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/caught-in-the-net--gremlins-beset-russian-fairy-1685001.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526061831/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/caught-in-the-net--gremlins-beset-russian-fairy-1685001.html |archive-date=2009-05-26 |url-access=limited |url-status=live |title=Caught in the Net: Gremlins Beset Russian Fairy |first=Jack |last=Riley |work=[[The Independent]] |date=May 15, 2009 |access-date=July 12, 2010 | location=London}}</ref> The singles "[[Know Your Enemy (Green Day song)|Know Your Enemy]]" and "[[21 Guns (song)|21 Guns]]" exemplify the themes of alienation and politically motivated anger present in the record.

To handle the record, they turned to [[Record producer|producer]] [[Butch Vig]], best known for producing [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]]'s ''[[Nevermind]]'' (1991). Critical response to ''21st Century Breakdown'' was generally positive. The record achieved Green Day's best chart performance to date, reaching number one on the album charts of various countries, including the United States [[Billboard 200|''Billboard'' 200]], the [[European Top 100 Albums]], and the [[UK Albums Chart|United Kingdom Albums Chart]]. The album won the [[Grammy Award for Best Rock Album]] at the [[52nd Grammy Awards]] on January 31, 2010. As of December 2010, ''21st Century Breakdown'' has sold 1,~~005~~050,000 copies in the United States<ref>{{cite news |url=http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/71727/week-ending-dec-19-2010-michael-wouldnt-have-liked-this/;_ylt=Aj.H3JkWiMnvsI1nfdVCl7wPwiUv?page=2#comments |title=Week Ending Dec. 19, 2010: Michael Wouldn't Have Liked This |first=Paul |last=Grein |work=[[Yahoo! Music]] |date=December 22, 2010 |access-date=February 3, 2011 |archive-date=December 31, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101231001357/http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/chart_watch/71727/week-ending-dec-19-2010-michael-wouldnt-have-liked-this/#comments |url-status=dead }}</ref> and more than 4 million worldwide.

==Writing and recording==

Green Day began to write new songs for what would become ''21st Century Breakdown'' in January 2006 after touring extensively in 2005 in support of their seventh studio album ''American Idiot''.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 16, 2009 |title=Behind The Scenes: Green Day On ''Saturday Night Live'' |access-date=July 7, 2009 |publisher=[[Access Hollywood]] |url=http://www.accesshollywood.com/behind-the-scenes-green-day-on-saturday-night-live_video_1103763| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090618170740/http://www.accesshollywood.com/behind-the-scenes-green-day-on-saturday-night-live_video_1103763| archive-date= June 18, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> At the time, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stated: "We'll start with silence, and that's how we'll be able to find the inspiration to find another record."<ref>{{cite news |title=Green Day Talks About New Album And Silence |url=http://www.spotlightingnews.com/article.php?news=1692 |publisher=SpotlightingNews |date=January 3, 2006 |access-date=May 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110107184410/http://spotlightingnews.com/article.php?news=1692 |archive-date=January 7, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The band did not release any details of the writing and recording process until October 2007, when Armstrong said in an interview with ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' that he had written "something like 45 songs".<ref name="NME" /><ref name="Fricke, 48" /> The band members worked on the primitive conceptual stages of the album at their rehearsal studio in [[Oakland, California|Oakland]], [[California]]. Little was revealed on the themes or musical style of the album, but Armstrong stated: "I want to dig into who I am and what I'm feeling at this moment – which is middle-aged." He added that many of the 45 songs were written on piano instead of guitar.<ref name="NME"/>

Green Day began the recording process for ''21st Century Breakdown'' in January 2008.<ref>{{cite news|last=Wan |first=Stephanie Ng |title=Green Day Working on Next Album |url=http://www.soulshine.ca/news/newsarticle.php?nid=4887 |work=[[Soul Shine Magazine|Soul Shine]] |date=December 5, 2007 |access-date=May 31, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090616124511/http://www.soulshine.ca/news/newsarticle.php?nid=4887| archive-date= June 16, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Later that year, it was confirmed that the band worked with producer Butch Vig.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Video Confirms Green Day Working With Butch Vig On New Album |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/14/video-confirms-green-day-working-with-butch-vig-on-new-album/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=October 14, 2008 |access-date=May 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090414221122/http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2008/10/14/video-confirms-green-day-working-with-butch-vig-on-new-album |archive-date=April 14, 2009 }}</ref> The album was recorded with Vig throughout 2008 and into early 2009 at four locations in California: [[Ocean Way Recording]] in Hollywood, Studio 880 in Oakland, Jel Studios in [[Newport Beach]], and Costa Mesa Studios in [[Costa Mesa]].<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=21st Century Breakdown |others=[[Green Day]] |year=2009 |type=CD |publisher=[[Reprise Records]] |id=518576-2}}</ref> While recording in Hollywood, the band members bought cheap [[Phonograph|turntable]]s from [[Amoeba Music]] and listened to many [[gramophone record|vinyl record]]s for inspiration, including albums by [[The Beat (British band)|The Beat]] and [[The Plimsouls]].<ref name="Fricke, 50">Fricke, p. 50</ref> Armstrong cited as inspiration the music of [[The Kinks]]' [[Ray Davies]], [[The Pretty Things]]' ''[[S.F. Sorrow]]'', [[The Doors]]' ''[[The Doors (album)|The Doors]]'' and ''[[Strange Days (Doors album)|Strange Days]]'', and [[Meat Loaf]]'s ''[[Bat Out of Hell]]''.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> Drummer [[Tré Cool]] noted the influence of [[Eddie Cochran]] and [[The Creation (band)|The Creation]] on Armstrong's writing.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> [[David Bowie]] is credited as a songwriter on the song "[[21 Guns (song)|21 Guns]]" to avoid a potential plagiarism lawsuit, as the melody of the chorus is similar to the Bowie-penned "[[All the Young Dudes]]".<ref name="BOWIE"/>

While writing at his home studio, Armstrong worked on a [[cover version|cover]] of [[The Who]]'s 1966 mini-opera "[[A Quick One, While He's Away]]"; Green Day recorded a full-band version of the song during the album sessions.<ref>Fricke, pp. 48–50</ref> Vig noted that frustrations would sometimes cause delays in the recording process for ''21st Century Breakdown''.<ref name="Fricke, 48"/> Armstrong kept his lyrics closely guarded and intentionally mixed his demos so that the vocals were low in the mix and thus unintelligible to the other band members.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> It was not until late 2008 that he chose to share his words with Cool, Vig, and bassist [[Mike Dirnt]] by sitting down with them and reading the entire album's lyrics aloud in order.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> The band members made the finishing touches on the album in early April 2009 and claimed that its release would lead to a "kind of... [[Postpartum depression|post-partum depression]]".<ref>{{cite news|title=Green Day Reflects On ''21st Century Breakdown'' |url=http://www.gantdaily.com/news/12/ARTICLE/49905/2009-04-27.html |publisher=Gantdaily.com |date=April 27, 2009 |access-date=May 31, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090616231912/http://www.gantdaily.com/news/12/ARTICLE/49905/2009-04-27.html |archive-date=June 16, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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The title track's opening lyric "Born into Nixon, I was raised in hell" references Armstrong's birth year of 1972, while "We are the class of '13" references the fact that his eldest son, Joseph, would graduate from high school in 2013.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> Dirnt has expressed his belief that "Last of the American Girls" was written about Armstrong's wife Adrienne, who he claimed is steadfast in her beliefs and assertively defends them, as is the topic of the girl in the record.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> Armstrong has cited his "disconnected" childhood—he was raised by his five older siblings after their father's death, while their mother worked graveyard shifts as a waitress—as the roots of the discontent expressed on ''21st Century Breakdown''.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> "[[East Jesus Nowhere]]" rebukes [[fundamentalism|fundamentalist]] religion and was written after Armstrong attended a church service where a friend's baby was baptized.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/>

Musically, ''21st Century Breakdown'' is similar to the [[punk rock]] style of ''American Idiot'',<ref name="rollingstone2">{{cite magazine|last=Sheffield |first=Rob |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/21st-century-breakdown-20090427 |title=21st Century Breakdown : Green Day : Review |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=April 27, 2009 |access-date=February 26, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gundersen |first=Edna |title=It's a new, motivated Green Day for the ''21st Century'' |url=https://www.usatoday.com/life/music/reviews/2009-05-10-green-day_N.htm |work=[[USA Today]] |date=May 14, 2009 |access-date=May 25, 2009}}</ref> but many critics have claimed that Green Day's traditional sound has evolved in the five years, with ''21st Century Breakdown'' incorporating new influences such as heavier, louder [[pop rock]] and [[arena rock]] on an epic scale.<ref name="fallon">{{cite web |last=Fallon |first=Chris |title=Green Day – 21st Century Breakdown – Album Review |url=http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1058322 |website=[[AbsolutePunk]] |date=May 14, 2009 |access-date=May 25, 2009| archive-url= https://archive.today/20090521121539/http://www.absolutepunk.net/showthread.php?t=1058322| archive-date= May 21, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref><ref name="guardian">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/may/08/green-day-21st-century-breakdown |title=Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown |last=Petridis |first=Alexis |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=May 8, 2009 |access-date=May 14, 2009 | location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090511100953/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/may/08/green-day-21st-century-breakdown| archive-date= May 11, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Rob Sheffield of ''Rolling Stone'' indicated that the album provides ballads that are Green Day's most polished; he claimed that the band "combine punk-thrash with their newfound love of [[Classic rock|classic-rock]] grandiosity".<ref name="rollingstone2"/> [[MTV]] compared the material to that of classic rockers like [[The Who]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Montgomery |first=James |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604950/20090212/green_day.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090214154658/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604950/20090212/green_day.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 14, 2009 |title=We Preview Green Day's 21st Century Breakdown – News Story |publisher=MTV |date=February 12, 2009 |access-date=May 7, 2009}}</ref> while ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' called the title track "Green Day's most epic song yet".<ref>{{cite web|last=Goodman |first=William |url=https://www.spin.com/2009/02/first-listen-green-days-21st-century-breakdown/ |title=First Listen: Green Day's "21st Century Breakdown" |work=Spin|date=February 13, 2009 |access-date=May 7, 2009}}</ref> Cool has remarked: "It's important to us that we're still looked at as a punk band. It was our religion, our higher education". However, he also noted that Armstrong had delved into the past in writing ''21st Century Breakdown'', gleaning inspiration from the artists who shaped rock music.<ref name="Fricke, 50"/> Armstrong himself has stated: "Ground zero for me is still punk rock. I like painting an ugly picture. I get something uplifting out of singing some of the most horrifying shit you can sing about. It's just my DNA."<ref name="Fricke, 50"/>

With a running time of almost 70 minutes, ''21st Century Breakdown'' is Green Day's longest album to date.

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| rev4Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="guardian"/>

| rev5 = ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''

| rev5Score = {{rating|3.5|4}}<ref>{{cite news |last=Powers |first=Ann |author-link=Ann Powers |title=Giving rock's past a kick in the pants |url=https://~~articles~~www.latimes.com/~~2009~~archives/la-xpm-2009-may/-15~~/entertainment/~~-et-greenday15-story.html |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=May 15, 2009 |access-date=December 13, 2009}}</ref>

| rev6 = ''[[MSN Music]]'' ([[Robert Christgau#Consumer Guide|Consumer Guide]])

| rev6Score = C<ref name=xgau>{{cite web |last=Christgau |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Christgau |title=Consumer Guide |url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/cg/cg2009-07.php |work=[[MSN Music]] |date=July 2009 |access-date=December 13, 2009}}</ref>

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Reception to ''21st Century Breakdown'' has been generally favorable, according to aggregating website [[Metacritic]], which reported a rating of 70/100 based on 30 critical reviews.<ref name="Metacritic">{{cite web|title=Reviews for 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day |url=https://www.metacritic.com/music/21st-century-breakdown/green-day |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=July 30, 2009}}</ref> Dan Silver of ''[[The Observer]]'' awarded the record four stars out of five and likened it to both [[Bruce Springsteen]]'s music and the [[avant-garde]] writing of [[Chuck Palahniuk]].<ref name="observer">{{cite news|last=Silver |first=Dan |title=Rock review: Green Day, 21st Century Breakdown |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2009/apr/19/green-day-21st-century-breakdown |work=[[The Observer]] |date=April 19, 2009 |access-date=May 27, 2009 | location=London| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090422053506/http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/apr/19/green-day-21st-century-breakdown| archive-date= April 22, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> ''Rolling Stone''{{'}}s [[David Fricke]] called ''21st Century Breakdown'' "a compound bomb of classic-rock ecstasy, no-mercy punk assault and pop-song wiles; it's like [[The Clash]]'s ''[[London Calling]]'', The Who's ''[[Quadrophenia]]'' and [[Hüsker Dü]]'s ''[[Zen Arcade]]'' all compressed into 18 songs".<ref name="Fricke, 48"/> Dan Cairns of ''[[The Times]]'' concluded: "Lyrically, it may succeed in capturing the contradictions, vulnerabilities and longing for harmony that thrum through Armstrong, Dirnt and Cool, their country, and humanity as a whole. But its real triumph, in an age of trimming, of market testing, of self-censorship and lowest common denominators, is not simply to aim insanely high, but to make it to the summit."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6154388.ece |title=Green Day return bigger and better – Times Online |work=[[The Times]] |date=April 26, 2009 |access-date=May 7, 2009 | location=London | first=Dan | last=Cairns}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

Criticism centered on the concept of the record; [[BBC]]'s Chris Jones said that it is "griping vaguely against 'authority{{'"}} and that "too many buzz words obscure incisive meaning".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b6w6 |title=You may not get any deep insights, but you are getting some great tunes |last=Jones |first=Chris |date=May 8, 2009 |publisher=BBC |access-date=May 13, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090515022117/http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/reviews/b6w6| archive-date= May 15, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> Steve Kandell of ''[[Spin (magazine)|Spin]]'' wrote that the humor of ''American Idiot'' was "sorely missed" and that the energy of the album seemed "directionless".<ref name="spin">{{cite web|url=http://www.spin.com/reviews/green-day-21st-century-breakdown-reprise |title=Green Day, '21st Century Breakdown' (Reprise) |last=Kandell |first=Steve |date=April 30, 2009 |work=Spin |access-date=May 17, 2009| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090503154459/http://www.spin.com/reviews/green-day-21st-century-breakdown-reprise| archive-date= May 3, 2009 | url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]''{{'}}s [[Alexis Petridis]] indicated that "the storyline becomes impossible to follow".<ref name="guardian"/> [[Robert Christgau]] of ''[[MSN Music]]'' ~~wrote~~panned the album, reserving particular distaste for the multiple songs that heavily utilize [[Dynamics (music)|dynamics]], before concluding, "I don't like right-wing Christianists either. But as every oppressed teen in the right-wing orbit knows full well, they're not as garbled and simplistic as Armstrong's anthems insist."<ref name=xgau/> Adam Downer of ''Sputnikmusic'' was ~~the~~even ~~most~~less ~~critical~~receptive, ~~professional reviewer of~~calling the album~~; he questioned the clarity of the lyrics by calling ''21st Century Breakdown''~~ "more conceptually vague/ridiculous than ''American Idiot''", and ~~he went~~going on to say that it "spirals out of control in its own heroic glory and never regains focus, thus ending with a product that Green Day couldn't afford to produce: an average record".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=30509 |title=Green Day 21st Century Breakdown |last=Downer |first=Adam |website=Sputnikmusic |date=May 11, 2009 |access-date=May 13, 2009| archive-url= https://archive.today/20090519193034/http://sputnikmusic.com/album.php?reviewid=30509| archive-date= May 19, 2009 | url-status= live}}</ref> ''[[Slant Magazine]]'' claims that "...an uncanny sense of familiarity hangs over too much of the album. The melodies of several tracks suggest ghosts of older Green Day songs."<ref name="Slant">{{cite web|last=Robbins |first=Charles |title=Green Day: 21st Century Breakdown |url=https://www.slantmagazine.com/music/review/green-day-21st-century-breakdown |work=Slant |date=May 15, 2009 |access-date=December 13, 2009}}</ref> Kyle Ryan at ''[[The A.V. Club]]'' gave the album a B+, noting it as "going [even] bolder" than ''American Idiot''. Ryan also declared "''21st Century Breakdown'' reinforces what ''American Idiot'' first revealed: Green Day should never be underestimated."<ref name="club"/>

===Accolades===

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| all_lyrics = [[Billie Joe Armstrong]]

| all_music = [[Green Day]], "21 Guns" credits [[David Bowie]] as additional songwriter.<ref name="BOWIE">[https://www.portablepress.com/blog/2015/03/3-notable-cases-of-musical-infringement/ Bowie]</reF>

~~| all_music = [[Green Day]]~~

| title1 = Song of the Century

| length1 = 0:57

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| length20 = 2:46

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| headline = Japanese edition bonus ~~tracks~~track

| title19 = Lights Out

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| headline = Target version bonus CD (''Live in Japan'')

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| title1 = [[American Idiot (song)|American Idiot]]

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| headline = Japanese bonus DVD

| title1 = Know Your Enemy

| note1 = live at Abbey Road

| title2 = East Jesus Nowhere

| note2 = live at Abbey Road

| title3 = St. Jimmy

| note3 = live at Abbey Road

| title4 = 21 Guns

| note4 = live at Abbey Road

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| note5 = live at Abbey Road

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| note6 = music video

| title7 = 21 Guns

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Credits adapted from AllMusic <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/album/21st-century-breakdown-mw0000812729/credits |title= 21st Century Breakdown - Green Day |website=AllMusic |access-date= September 17, 2023}}</ref>

'''Green Day'''

* [[Billie Joe Armstrong]] – lead and backing vocals, guitar, piano

* [[Mike Dirnt]] – bass guitar, backing vocals; lead vocals on "Modern World" (section in "American Eulogy")

* [[Tré Cool]] – drums, percussion

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* [[Tom Kitt (musician)|Tom Kitt]] – [[string section|string arrangements]]

* [[Patrick Warren]] – [[conducting|string conducting]]

'''Production'''

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