Zeros

Green Day Sold Out at the Super Bowl—And We All Pretended Not to Notice So Green Day played the Super Bowl on Sunday. Let that sink in for a moment. The band that once screamed about being a basket case and hating authority just serenaded America's most corporate, militaristic, advertising-soaked spectacle with a neutered version of American Idiot . And everyone's acting like this is fine. Like this is normal. Like we didn't just watch punk rock die in real-time on artificial turf. Remember when Billie Joe Armstrong used to change the lyrics to rage against the MAGA agenda? Yeah, he conveniently forgot that part at Levi's Stadium . Can't we offend the sponsors? Can't risk alienating half the audience when you're performing for the NFL— an organization that practically embodies everything punk rock supposedly stands against . The performance was safe. Sanitized. Corporate-approved punk cosplay for the halftime crowd. But here's the thing: t...