The lyric replaced, "Am I retarded, or am I just overjoyed?" These political moments are nothing new for Green Day, who gave a career-spanning epic set at Coachella, largely banked on their ...

Green Day's frontman, Billie Joe Armstrong, changed lyrics in both, American Idiot and Jesus of Suburbia, to target Donald Trump's MAGA movement and to reference Palestinian children amid the ...

Billie Joe Armstrong is making Green Day’s political stances known. When the band took the stage at Coachella to close out Saturday’s performance, they made two lyric changes that directly ...

At another point in the same nine-minute song, Armstrong altered a separate lyric in another pointed ... “Yes Billie from Green Day, you are retarded,” countered one critic.

The legendary Bay Area pop-punk outfit Green Day surprised a Coachella crowd when the group’s singer swapped a song lyric to make a brief statement about Palestine. The band played a ...

This is hardly the first time that Green Day have updated the lyrics to songs from American Idiot. When they played New Year’s Rockin’ Eve on Dec. 31, 2023, they sang “I’m not part of a ...

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After nearly 40 years, Green Day is still using their music as a megaphone ... home,” sang frontman Billie Joe Armstrong in the lyric that was originally, “Runnin’ away from pain when ...

Green Day’s American Idiot has always been political, with most fans believing that its title track is a protest song criticizing former President George W. Bush. Lyrics are eerily similar to to ...

The original song lyrics from 2004’s “American Idiot” were, “Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized.” These political moments are nothing new for Green Day, who gave a ...