“Still Breathing” by Green Day

"Still Breathing" comes from Revolution Radio, Green Day's 12th studio album, and it arrived as the album's third single in September 2016, the same day a lyric video went up. Green Day produced it themselves and Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the words, a song about hanging on when life has you on the ropes. It's pop-punk with a glossy, radio-sized sheen: Armstrong sings lead over his own electric guitar while Mike Dirnt's bass and Tré Cool's drums push it uphill, both of them chipping in backing vocals. Andrew Scheps mixed it.

Critics hailed it as a return to form and one of the album's high points, even if a few carped about the production and the lyrics. P. R. Brown's video sends Armstrong trudging through the streets while Dirnt and Cool rehearse in a warehouse, and the song topped the US Alternative Airplay, Mainstream Rock and Rock Airplay charts.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.