After practically 40 years, Inexperienced Day continues to be utilizing their music as a megaphone to protest the world’s injustices.
Whereas headlining Saturday at Coachella, the punk band used their 2004 single ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ to name consideration to the struggling of Palestinian youngsters amid the continued Israel-Hamas battle.
“Runnin’ away from ache, like the youngsters from Palestine / Tales from one other damaged dwelling,” sang frontman Billie Joe Armstrong within the lyric that was initially, “Runnin’ away from ache whenever you’ve been victimized.”
Final month, he altered the identical observe, singing, “Am I retarded, or am I simply J.D. Vance?” As a substitute of the vice chairman’s identify, the unique lyric asks “am I simply overjoyed?”
The American Fool artists usually are not new to creating a press release with their music, utilizing the title observe from their 2004 album to name out Donald Trump throughout a 2023 New Yr’s Eve broadcast.
“I’m not part of the MAGA agenda,” sang Armstrong on the ‘American Fool’ lyric, which truly goes, “I’m not part of a redneck agenda.”
The band’s Bush-era angst from their seventh studio album rang true throughout their Coachella set, which resulted in flames when a rogue firework shot into the gang and ignited a palm tree, in keeping with TMZ. It’s unclear if there have been any accidents.
Along with Inexperienced Day, headliners for Coachella 2025 embody Girl Gaga and Submit Malone, additionally that includes performances by Missy Elliott, Charli XCX, Megan Thee Stallion, Benson Boone, Zedd, Shaboozey, Ty Dolla Signal, Misfits, Prodigy, FKA Twigs and Jimmy Eat World.
