There’s no room for patriotism for rocker Billie Joe Armstrong in the wake of the Roe v. Wade reversal.
During a concert in London Friday, the Green Day frontman vented his frustration following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade, which effectively removes Americans’ constitutional right to an abortion.
The 50-year-old singer might even be packing his bags for the U.K in protest. “I’m renouncing my citizenship,” said Armstrong onstage. “I’m coming here.”
Armstrong continued: “There’s just too much stupid in the world to go back to that miserable excuse for a country. Oh, I’m not kidding. You’re going to get a lot of me in the coming days.”
Background:Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to abortion
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Fusing the musical and the political is not new territory for Armstrong. Green Day’s 2004 hit “American Idiot” took aim at the post-9/11 media landscape in the U.S.
“Don’t wanna be an American idiot / One nation controlled by the media,” Armstrong sings on the song. “Information age of hysteria / It’s calling out to idiot America.”
Armstrong and Green Day stepped into the political arena once more at the 2016 American Music Awards. During a performance of their song “Bang Bang,” the band broke into a fiery chant that criticized the election of then-President Donald Trump.
“No Trump, No KKK, No fascist USA,” the band sang.
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Armstrong isn’t the only singer to voice their dissatisfaction with the reversal of Roe v. Wade.
Taking the stage on Saturday at the U.K. festival Glastonbury, pop star Olivia Rodrigo told festivalgoers she is “devastated and terrified” following the SCOTUS ruling. She also dedicated her cover of the 2009 Lily Allen hit “(Expletive) You” to Supreme Court Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas, Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Brett Kavanaugh.
“So many women and so many girls are going to die because of this,” Rodrigo added.
Billie Eilish, who headlined Glastonbury Friday, dedicated the performance of her song “Your Power” to the SCOTUS judges who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade.
“The song we’re about to do is, I think, one of the favorites that we’ve written and it’s about the concept of power and how we need to always remember how not to abuse it,” Eilish said. “And today is a really, really dark day for women in the U.S. I’m just going to say that as I cannot bear to think about it any longer in this moment.”
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Contributing: John Fritze, Naledi Ushe
