UPDATE
Jan 21, 2025 6:11 PM CST
Green Day tweaked the lyrics of "American Idiot" once again during a concert in South Africa on Saturday, this time to target Elon Musk. Singer Bille Joe Armstrong changed the lyric "I'm not part of a redneck agenda to "I'm not a part of the Elon agenda," Rolling Stone reports. On New Year's Eve, he sang "I'm not part of the MAGA agenda," which displeased the South Africa-born billionaire. "Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it," Musk said in a Jan. 1 post on X.
Jan 1, 2024 1:00 PM CST
When Green Day released the song "American Idiot" nearly two decades ago, the band was taking aim at then-President George Bush, reports the Guardian. On New Year's Eve, the band tweaked the lyrics to swing at another former president. During their televised appearance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong swapped the line "I'm not a part of a redneck agenda" for "I'm not a part of the MAGA agenda."
It's not the first time the band has set its sights on Trump. As USA Today reports, they sang this very line in 2019 at the iHeartRadio Music Festival in Las Vegas. Prior to that, at the 2016 American Music Awards, Green Day broke into an anti-Trump chant—"No Trump, no KKK, no fascist USA"—while performing. More recently, the band sold a limited edition T-shirt featuring Trump's August 2023 mugshot. (See it here.)
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