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The Green Days make a political presentation in Johannesburg, causing Elon Musk
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The Green Day band performed with a political touch on January 19 at the Johannesburg FNB stadium, marking their debut in South Africa. During the execution of the classic “American Idiot” (2004), Billie Joe Armstrong changed the verse “. I am not part of the Redneck Agenda “up to” I am not part of Elon’s Agenda ” – a arrow directed to the billionaire born in Pretoria Elon Musk.
The provocation addressed to Musk comes in the middle of the controversies for the gesture made during the second settlement of Donald Trump, compared to a Nazi greeting. Although the gesture has been described by the Entro-Defamation League as “clumsy and without malicious intent”, the episode has strengthened the polarizing image of Musk.
It was not the first time that the group stood the billionaire. After a show at the beginning of 2023, in which they changed the text of “American Idiot” to criticize the sorceress agenda, Musk reacted on X (ex Twitter), accusing the band of losing his essence. Bassist Mike Dirnt replied: “Elon Musk is literally the car. He always says nonsense on the internet. We are the Green Days, what did you expect? “
The group has maintained its critical position for years. In 2016, “No Trump, No Kkk, No Fascist USA” sang to the American Music Awards and, in 2023, published a shirt with the photo of Trump stylized such as the Nimrod album, with resources destined to help the victims of the fires in Hawaii.
By combining music and activism, the Green days remain current. Their winner of the Grammy American Idiot has sold more than 7 million copies in the United States, consolidating their influence as one of the greatest punk bands in history.
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