When Green Day sat down with VMusic in August to discuss their forthcoming trilogy of albums, ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, and ¡Tré!, Billie described the three albums with a mere couple of sentences, "To me, it's just a bunch of really good songs that are straight to the point. Kind of go back to our roots a little bit, kind of get into the epic, and kind of get into a Foxboro Hot Tubs-garage kind of feel." Asked in an interview with TeleHit if there would be another Foxboro album, Billie replied, "Y'know, ¡Dos! is kind of the second Foxboro Hot Tubs record...the only difference is that we called it 'Green Day.'"

As Billie Joe continued using similar language to describe the second album of the trilogy in many other interviews, fans began to wonder whether the brief juncture of drunken genius that was captured on the Tubbies' Stop Drop and Roll!!! could ever be bottled again. Was ¡Dos! really going to be that raw? Would it fit in with the styles present other two albums?