Green Day kicked off the year in music with their first concert of 2024 and took the opportunity to troll Elon Musk with a lyric change to their hit song American Idiot

Billie Joe Armstrong, the lead singer of Green Day, shared a video celebrating his Johannesburg concert where he changed some lyrics to mock Elon Musk

This isn’t the first time Green Day has called out Musk; after their 2023 New Year’s Rockin’ Eve performance, where they altered the lyrics of “American Idiot” to say “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda,” Musk criticized the band on X (formerly Twitter), writing, “Green Day goes from raging against the machine to milquetoastedly raging for it.”

Green Day delivered a pointed message to billionaire Elon Musk while on stage in his home country of South Africa. When performing their biggest hit “American Idiot,” the band’s singer Billie Joe Armstrong changed the lyrics from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda.

Green Day changed to the lyrics of their hit track American Idiot during a recent concert in Johannesburg, South Africa, to take aim at Elon Musk

Green Day have taken lyrical aim at Elon Musk while performing in his home country of South Africa. The band’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong reportedly switched a line in their 2004 hit “American Idiot” from “I’m not a part of the redneck agenda” to “I’m not a part of the Elon agenda.

American rock band 'Green Day' disses Elon Musk in his own home country. The band took an aim at the Tesla CEO with a change in 'American Idiot' lyric. Green Day's direct swing at Musk comes just weeks after the X owner mocked the band in his tweet.