Walking Contradiction

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"Walking Contradiction"
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Single by Green Day
from the album Insomniac
Released 1996
Format CD
Recorded 1995
Genre Punk Rock
Length 2 minutes 30 seconds
Label Reprise
Producer(s) Rob Cavallo, Green Day
Green Day singles chronology
"Brain Stew/Jaded"
(1996)
"Walking Contradiction"
(1996)
"Hitchin' a Ride"
(1997)

"Walking Contradiction" is the fifth and final single taken from Green Day's fourth album Insomniac. It was also on Green Day's greatest hits compilation, International Superhits!.

[edit] Meaning

The song is about being contradictory to yourself and others. This is perhaps best expressed in the chorus "I have no belief; But I believe I'm a walking contradiction..." That phrase is also, in itself, contradictory.

[edit] Music Video

The video, which was directed by Roman Coppola, features the three major members of Green Day going about in a town indirectly causing accidents, explosions, and all kinds of mayhem without realizing what they're doing. Needless to say a big disaster occurs when all three of them meet up at the end of the video.

The members all did their own stunts, and at first Billie Joe Armstrong was afraid to do the stunt work required for it. He was about to pull out until Tré Cool talked him into it.

This video is one of few music videos to have colored closed captioning, a practice that is rare in North America. The captioning appears on most modern televisions as green.

Green Day
Billie Joe Armstrong | Mike Dirnt | Tré Cool
Jason White | Jason Freese | Ronnie Blake | Al Sobrante
Discography
Studio Albums: 39/Smooth | Kerplunk! | Dookie | Insomniac | nimrod. | Warning: | American Idiot
Studio EPs: 1,000 Hours | Sweet Children | Slappy
Compilations: 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours | Shenanigans | International Superhits!
Live Albums/ Live EPs: Bowling Bowling Bowling Parking Parking | Foot in Mouth EP | Tune in Tokyo | Bullet in a Bible
DVDs: International Supervideos! | Riding in Vans with Boys | Bullet in a Bible
Singles: "Longview" | "Welcome to Paradise" | "Basket Case" | "She " | "When I Come Around" | "J.A.R." | "Geek Stink Breath" | "Stuck With Me" | "Brain Stew/Jaded" | "Walking Contradiction" | "Hitchin' a Ride" | "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" | "Redundant" | "Nice Guys Finish Last" | "Minority" | "Warning" | "Waiting" | "Macy's Day Parade" | "Poprocks & Coke" | "I Fought the Law" | "American Idiot" | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | "Holiday" | "Wake Me Up When September Ends" | "Jesus of Suburbia" | "The Saints Are Coming" (with U2)
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