Thanks for posting Abbey. It’s cool news, but to be honest on my one listen I thought it was really awful. :) I can’t stand that sort of bombastic, overproduced music. “21 Guns” is a great song, so that, by itself, was a bit of a saving grace, and as always I found Billie Joe’s vocals moving…

But… ech!

Oh good, it’s not just me :). I like it much better with Billie Joe singing by himself. All the strings and stuff in the background was just too much.

I absolutely love it. To me its an entirely different song. While I agree with you that I would not have listened to this originally if this hit the radio as it is presented here by the AI cast (a non-Green Day song), but I think the musical-theater interpretation of it is just full and rich and beautiful as sung between the AI characters whatshername and johnny. I enjoyed hearing the orchestral and choral layers and it tells a story to me that is so different than what I had originally thought of as “21 Guns” which I never thought of as a love song.

When hearing it the 1st time i was disappointed…until Billie came in. I think i wouldn’t like it so much if he didn’t have some vocals in it. But I do think it’s a tad over-done…