Oh no! Punks are getting political! Who could have expected such a thing?
Rock band Green Day altered the lyrics of their well-known song American Idiot to criticize Donald Trump during a televised New Year’s Eve performance.
During a set on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve, the lead singer, Billie Joe Armstrong, replaced the line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” with “I’m not a part of the Maga agenda”. The song was originally released to criticize former president George Bush in 2004.
Green Day fans flocked to social media to share the live performance during the New Year’s event with host Ryan Seacrest.
This isn’t the first time the band has targeted Trump. The rock band previously scorned the former president at the American Music Awards in 2016, and responded to Trump’s indictment in August with limited edition merchandise featuring his mugshot.
People seem to be losing their very shit over the idea that a punk rock band of all things might have a political angle to their work, and that they might slightly (cos how much difference is there between “redneck agenda” and “MAGA agenda”?) update a reference in one of their older, political songs. AND on the Dick Clark NYE show of all things, you know, the show devised by the guy who pioneered that form of musical miscegenation called rock’n’roll on American TV in the 50s and had not only mixed black and white performers on stage but similarly mixed black and white audiences with segregation… the height of wokeness I tell you. Still, all those punk fans disappointed in Green Day now can listen to someone like Skrewdriver instead, I suppose…
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