"Know Your Enemy" is a punk rock song written and recorded by American band Green Day. It is the first single from their eighth studio album, 21st Century Breakdown. The single was released through Reprise Records on 16 April 2009. Billboard described the song as being lyrically "just as politically charged as last time (on American Idiot)", having a "Modern Rock radio-ready chorus", whilst the song's producer Butch Vig "brings enough punk/pop sheen for mass appeal."
The music video was directed by Motion Theory's Matthew Cullen (who helmed the video for Weezer's "Pork and Beans" in 2008), and it premiered on MTV and other stations across the globe on April 24, 2009. In the video, the band is performing at night on a stage in a field surrounded by a barbed wire fence. Shots of the band are also frequently seen through night vision closed-circuit cameras that surround the field, as well as through cameras on helicopters that patrol the area with searchlights. The final chorus of the song shows fire burning behind the band. The video was shot in Downtown Los Angeles.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Your_Enemy_(Green_Day_song)
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Arianesays...Unfortunately, it is probably Green Day's weakest album ever. This song is pretty representative of most of the album: bland and repetitive.
Even though I agree with their pro environmentalist, anti fundamentalist message, most of the lyrics get rather preachy and long winded. Practically missing are the clever hooks the band is famous for.
"21 Guns" is the best song on the album, "The Static Age" is the best rocker. "Horsehoes and Handgrenades" sounds most like the early Green Day of old. Buy these three if you are a fan.
defsays...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4smim2MNvF8
same title much better song
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