Green Day - Oh Love

What this video is

Released July 2012 as the lead single from Green Day's ninth studio album ¡Uno! (Reprise Records), 'Oh Love' announced the band's deliberate pivot away from the politically charged rock-opera ambitions of American Idiot (2004) and 21st Century Breakdown (2009) and back toward a power-pop, back-to-basics sound evoking Dookie (1994) and Nimrod (1997). The video, arriving amid the early-2010s rock landscape…

Why it matters

Represents a key document of early-2010s mainstream alternative rock's commercial self-reinvention strategy: the deliberate 'return to roots' move. As the debut single from an ambitious triple-album project, the video encapsulates Green Day's attempt to reclaim punk-rock credibility after years of…

The director

Samuel David Bayer (b. February 17, 1965, Syracuse, NY) is an American director, cinematographer, and visual artist. He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with a Fine Arts degree and relocated to Los Angeles in 1991. He launched his…