Minority may refer to:
Minority is a 16-bar jazz standard in a minor key by Gigi Gryce, first recorded with Clifford Brown in Paris on October 8, 1953. Gryce recorded it again with Art Blakey, and again on his The Hap'nin's album for Prestige (May 3, 1960). It is one of the 500 songs in the 6th Edition Real Book where it appears on page 273 and has been recorded over 40 times by many of the big names in Jazz.
"Minority" is a song by the American punk rock band Green Day. It was released as the lead single from their sixth studio album, Warning. The song remained at No. 1 for five weeks in a row on the Billboard Modern Rock chart in late 2000, making it one of the most successful songs from the band in the 2000s.
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In an interview, frontman Billie Joe Armstrong said that "The song is about being an individual and how you have to drift through the darkness to find where you belong."
Billie Joe Armstrong commented that this was the point in which their song writing became slightly more politically based. The lyrics "I pledge allegiance to the underworld, one nation under dog..." were taken from the American Pledge of Allegiance but "twisted upside down a bit."
I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
I pledge allegiance to the underworld
One nation under dog there of which I stand alone
A face in the crowd unsung, against the mold
Without a doubt singled out the only way I know
'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
Stepped out of the line
Like a sheep runs from the herd
Marching out of time
To my lovve beat now the only way I know
One light, one mind, flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
For crying out loud she screamed onto me
A free for all, fuck 'em all, you are at your own sight
'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
One light, one mind, flashing in the dark
Blinded by the silence of a thousand broken hearts
For crying out loud she screamed onto me
A free for all, fuck 'em all, you are at your own sight
'Cause I want to be the minority
I don't need your authority
Down with the moral majority
'Cause I want to be the minority
The minority
The minority
The minority
I want to be the minority