Green Day Slams JD Vance With Lyrics Change At Australian Concert
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The band used an ableist slur to diss the vice president while performing its 2004 song "Jesus of Suburbia" at a recent concert in Melbourne.
Green Day is once again taking aim at the administration of President Donald Trump.
The Grammy-winning punk band has long spoken truth to power and famously slammed then-President George W. Bush with its 2004 album “American Idiot,” but the group has often changed its lyrics onstage to diss Trump — and is now targeting his vice president.
Green Day performed “Jesus of Suburbia” from its Bush-era album in Melbourne, Australia, over the weekend, only for lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong to swap his original lyrics, “Am I retarded or just overjoyed?” for “Am I retarded or am I just JD Vance?”
As evident by crowd footage shared on social media, the ableist slur wasn’t registered as such by an audience of thousands who may have deemed its offensive nature less egregious than Vance’s actions, including the vice president’s public scolding of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Zelenskyy was set to sign an agreement with Trump last week regarding access to Ukrainian rare minerals, likely hoping it would engender continued U.S. support against Russia, only for Vance to scold Zelenskyy for not “thanking” Trump enough — a reprimand the president echoed.
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