“Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it,” billionaire Elon Musk recently pouted when the pop-punk icons altered ‘American Idiot”s lyrics to attack the MAGA brigade. Goes to show you can’t buy common sense, eh? Whether rolling around the East Bay in the early ‘90s with anthems for the jilted generation, or explicitly wearing their politics on their sleeve for the aforementioned state-of-the-nation address, it’s always been pretty clear what side of history Green Day are on. Still, gather all the Karens and colour them red, white and shocked.
But where are we now? While the band’s 2020 predecessor ‘Father Of All Motherfuckers’ was a sharp blast of young, dumb, jukebox pop-punk – skipping the politics and the all-too-obvious…
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