Coin-Operated Boy

No one loves you and you know it
Don’t pretend that you enjoy it or you don’t care
Cause now I wouldn’t lie or tell
you all the things you want to hear
I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU I HATE YOU

Track: Platypus (I Hate You)
Artist: Green Day
Album: Nimrod
Year: 1997

The song was written about Tim Yohannan, a founder of 924 Gilman St., and punk music critic. He openly disliked Green Day’s breed of “pop-punk,” and made it known in his post-“Dookie” reviews of the band. Yohannan would later die of lymphoma, which explains the lines, “I heard you’re sick/Sucked on that cancer stick.” The narrator later goes on to say that he’s happy to hear of this man’s coming death. So much hate.