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[['''Jesus of Suburbia]]''' is the main character in the band [[Green Day]]’s [[punk rock]] [[opera]] [[American Idiot]]. Jesus (not the Christ [[Jesus]]) lives in a town called “Jingletown” (the nickname of a [[suburb]] in [[Oakland]], where the band records all of their songs). The second song on the album is named after Jesus. It is a mini [[rock opera]] in the tradition of [[The Who]]’s “A Quick One, While He’s Away.”

In the first part of the opera, which shares a title with the opera itself, we are introduced to Jesus, a [[Ritalin]] kid who experiments with drugs “to keep him insane.” The album’s theme is rage against love, and Jesus is the son of that combination. He claims there’s nothing wrong with him, and that he’s how he’s supposed to be in a “land of make-believe.”