I remember exactly how, 7 years ago, I fell in love with Green Day. It was around this exact time, June or May 2010, that I randomly bought a magazine dedicated to them, because I used to like one of their songs that was always playing on the radio. I went on holiday with my parents, and I listened to every single song mentioned in the articles dedicated to them, as they were coming to France just a few days later. I suddenly fell in love and found a passion for a musical artist for the first time in my life. I couldn’t go to their concert that year, because, at only 12, it was obvious I wouldn’t be able to go to convince my parents to go see a band I had just discovered with me. I was very upset. I started creating Twitter accounts and blogs about the band, while trying to deeply know everything about them as soon as I could. After the concert, I read an article dedicated to this girl who went on stage with them during Longview. I watched the video a few times in a row, and suddenly, I decided I wanted to be that girl one day, that my goal would be to get on stage with Green Day and sing that song myself, and prove the world that I could be a rock star. I am a very determined person, and this is what I wanted to dedicate my passion to. Thanks to Green Day, I widened my music knowledge, and was immersed in the world of rock music. I met so many fans through social medias, and weirdly, I still talk to many of them to this day, 7 years later. They were the first band that introduced me to what being a fan truly is: passion, dedication, and pure love for music. It was only 2 years later that I got to see Green Day live for the first time, on August 26th 2012. I was blown away, and I still remember to this day it was the first time I cried when I saw a band walking on stage. I still get that overwhelming feeling each time I see them.
A year later, it was the first time of my life I travelled to see a band in another country. I went to see them in London on June 1st 2013, which was still, until last Sunday, the best gig I had ever been to. I also travelled to another French city to see them one more time that year. I was only 15 but was certain I would one day travel the world to see them. 4 years later, it is finally 2017 and I am about to turn 20 in November. As some of you might have seen, I was away in the United States for 6 months, and I decided to finally see them more than once this year. I saw them in New York, and travelled to Canada by myself, meeting some family members I had never seen there as well, and I got to see them in Montreal and Québec, where I met the loveliest people. Visiting Canada was one of the best things I have ever done in my life, as it is now a country I would like to live in. I also was incredibly lucky to see them for free in Central Park just a few days before going back home.
Then, while booking my tickets to see them in London, I spontaneously decided to see them in Paris last Sunday at Download Festival (I only booked my ticket a day before coming back for the weekend). Each time I saw them live (it was now the 8th time), deep in my heart, I was still secretly hoping to finally be chosen to get on stage. It finally happened. Thanks to two guys who lifted me up at my demand, Billie Joe came to my direction to ask if I knew the words during Longview, looking straight in my eyes. I obviously said yes, jumped out of the crowd and went on stage. This was the most beautiful moment of my life. I got to tell BJ thank you, even if he doesn’t know how much this band made me grow up throughout the years, I got to hug him, and spend one of the most incredible and absurd moment of my life.
To anyone that I ever met thanks to music and shows until today, thank you for always believing in me, for making me become such a strong and confident person. Without Green Day, I would not have met any of you, I want you all to know that. Anything great that happened to me until today is thanks to this band. I will probably never be able to say thank you to them ever again, but they changed my life and made me achieve all of my dreams. If you have dreams, keep on ALWAYS believing them, because if you believe in them, they will definitely happen one day.
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