Minority (Green Day song)
"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.
Track listing
"Minority" (Radio version)
"Brat" (Live from Tokyo) - 1:42
"86" (Live from Prague) - 2:59
AU Single
"Minority" (Album version) - 2:49
"Brat" (Live from Tokyo) - 1:42
"86" (Live from Prague) - 2:59
"Jackass" (Album version) - 2:47
7"
Side A
"Minority"
"Brat" (Live from Tokyo) - 1:42
Side B
"Jackass"
"86" (Live from Prague) - 2:59
7" vinyl box set
"Minority" - 2:49
"Warning" - 3:42
"Hold On" - 2:56
"Outsider" - 2:17
Promo Single
"Minority" (Radio Edit)
"Minority" (Album Version) - 2:49
Meaning
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."
