4 de Julho

Nos E.U.A, a 4 de Julho celebra-se o dia da independência. Os Green Day foram incluidos em duas especies de "playlist" para o dito dia.

Uma delas foi a "15 Awesome 'America' Songs" da Billboard.com, na qual entrou a música "American Idiot", segundo a Billboard a parte da música que melhor se refere a America é "Don't want to be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media / Information age of hysteria / It's calling out to idiot America."

A outra foi "A Fashion Tribute To Fourth Of July Music Videos" da MTV, em que foi incluido o video da "American Idiot".

Lady Gaga fan dos Green Day? :o

A pop star do momento, Lady Gaga, em várias entrevistas referiu que o primeiro álbum que comprou com o seu próprio dinheiro foi Dookie. Mas só a pouco tempo, numa entrevista a
OutFrontColorado.com, é que Lady Gaga explicou o significado que este álbum tem para ela.

"I always talk about Green Day, because Dookie was the first album that I went to buy on my own. I think because I got bullied in school there was something I really appreciated about punk culture. It allowed me to feel unified with something that was separate from my community at school. Even though I didn’t have a lot of punk friends or I didn’t go to punk shows – because when I was 13, my mother would never have allowed me to leave the house and go downtown to see a punk show – just having the album in my hands and reading the lyrics and listening to the music made me feel like I was a punk, feel like a Green Day fan, feel like I was part of a union that was separate from my situation. That’s really carried through into my music and my dream and my message. But what’s been so great is social media. Unlike when I was a kid, my fans now have a way to get to know each other and be connected through social media so that the culture can grow."