It wouldn’t be a Green Day concert without some strong political commentary, and the iconic punk band stayed pretty true to form in their Coachella debut with an important message about Gaza.
Headlining the main stage on Saturday night, the band’s hour-and-a-half set included a noticeable tweak to the lyrics of their 2004 single “Jesus of Suburbia”, aimed at highlighting the suffering of Palestinian children.
“Runnin’ away from pain, like the kids from Palestine / Tales from another broken home,” sang lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong to a packed crowd, altering the original lyrics that was “Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized”.
Naturally, it didn’t take long for clips to blow up on social — with tons of fans hyping the band’s bold message.
But it wasn’t the only political zinger of the night. The band started out their Coachella set with the classic “American Idiot”, which included another lyric change from “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of a MAGA agenda”. Classic.
Last month, Green Day’s Australia tour also included a savage message to the current Trump administration when they switched up the lyrics of “Jesus of Surburbia” a day after that absolute shitshow of a meeting between US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
“Am I retarded or am I just JD Vance,” Armstrong sang in the band’s Melbourne show on March 1, altering the original, politically incorrect-on-purpose line, “Am I retarded or am I just overjoyed?”, per Billboard.
Billie Joe Armstrong didn’t even hold back the punches earlier this year when performing in South Africa — the home country of Tesla boss Elon Musk — when he changed the lyrics of “American Idiot” to “I’m not part of the Elon agenda”.
For a band three decades in, you gotta love how Green Day still knows how to read the room and call it like they see it.
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