The rock band blasted the tech billionaire with a spicy lyric swap during its performance at the Calabash South Africa festival in Johannesburg.

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.”

Elon Musk was snubbed by rock band Green Day after they decided to change the lyrics to American Idiot at the tech tycoon's expense

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 again altered a lyric in “American Idiot,” this time taking a jab at Elon Musk. Musk, who was born in Pratoria, South Africa and became a U.S. citizen in 2002, is the world’s richest man, tech and business mogul and administrator of the newly formed non-federal executive