As we reported, punk band Green Day performed on “Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve” on ABC Sunday night and changed the lyrics of their 2004 song “American Idiot” to include the anti-Trump line, “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.”
The original lyric wasn’t much better — “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” – but at least it wasn’t telling half the country to bugger off.
RedState’s Bonchie was not amused and pointed out that their “edginess” was in reality anything but:
What truly gets me about Armtrong’s lyric change, though, is how safe it is. Musicians that were writing anti-draft songs in the ’60s and ’70s actually faced the draft. The only thing Green Day faces is increasing irrelevance. Nothing is edgy about taking a shot at “MAGA” in 2023. On the contrary, it’s the most boilerplate thing a public figure can do.
Elon Musk seemingly agreed. The X…
