“I am not part of the MAGA agenda…” WARNING: This article contains language that some people may find offensive.
It's going to be a big year for American punk-pop band Green Day, and they're starting 2024 the only way they know how: with a controversial bang.
On top of the release Upcoming 14th album “Saviors” On January 19, the band celebrates the 230th anniversary of their debut “Dookie” (1994) and their critically acclaimed album “American Idiot” (2004) this year.
20 years after the release of “American Idiot” and its single, which originally contained the lyrics “Well, maybe I'm the gay one, America/ Not part of the redneck agenda/ Now everybody's doing the propaganda/ Singing with the age of paranoia“, the band changed the lyrics to reflect the current political climate in the United States.
They did this during their performance on Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, where they changed the lyrics to: “Well, maybe I'm the gay, America/Not part of the MAGA agenda/Now everyone's propagandizing/Singing with the age of paranoia.“
Watch the moment below:
The song was originally written about the Iraq War, uncritical news coverage of the US invasion, and as a shot against George W. Bush; And now Green Day has Trump and his presidential rally slogan “Make America Great Again” (MAGA) in its visor.
And what better time to throw some jabs at Trump, as the former president prepares for a second bid for the White House?
This isn't the first time they've attacked Trump — most notably at the American Music Awards in 2016, where they led a chant of “No Trump, No Ku Klux Klan, No Fascist USA” in protest of the then-president's election nominee. . In 2018, singer Billie Joe Armstrong told a crowd at the Cannes Lions concert: “I hate Donald Trump so much. I was screaming, “I hated George Bush.” This one is a little different. This is bad, as if the acid has gone bad.
To some extent, the band also released limited edition merchandise last year that included an image of the former president and described him as “the ultimate Nimrod” — a callback to the band's 1997 album “Nimrod.”
Following the lyrical change in Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, someone had something to say about it…
No, not Trump, but someone equally desperate to be heard, and with an equally big ego.
You guessed it: Elon Musk had to weigh in.
Musk accused the band of having gone “from being angry at the machine to being very angry at it.”
How messed up.
Musk, who does not have a consistent history of supporting the Republican or Democratic Party, has in recent years become more aligned with conservative politics.
2023 was the perfect year for Elon Musk, who passed away New name X; He saw half the valuation of the platform formerly known as Twitter during his time as owner; Advertising revenues decreased by 89%; He cemented his status as the poster boy for online racists.
Indeed, last November, a new report was issued by… Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH)a non-profit organization dedicated to combating misinformation and hate speech online, said that
Last year also saw Musk enter the Guinness Book of World Records for recording the largest single net worth loss in financial history, at nearly $200 billion.
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