Roe v. Wade verdict outlash: Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong decides to “renounce” US citizenship

Every faith in patriotism is shaken for rockstar Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day in the face of the verdict of Roe v. Wade. In the Friday concert in London, the lead singer of Green Day, expressed his frustration with the U.S. Supreme Court’s judgment to abolish Roe v. Wade, which basically takes away the rights of Americans’ provided by the Constitution to avail abortion.

He announced on stage that he’ll be packing his bags, renouncing his U.S. citizenship and maybe move to the U.K . The 50 year old singer continued how they will be seeing a lot more of him in the U.K now. The crazy decisions being taken and the control being expressed over women’s bodies is not something he can bear and thus his ticket to move out of that place which calls itself a democratic country.

Green Day is known for its fusion of music and politics and thus this current scenario also didn’t stop him from experimenting with the same. His 2004 hit “American Idiot”, took an eye on the post 9/11 media prospect. The band stepped into the hot waters of political music again when in 2016, they created the song “Bang Bang” which criticized the then President Donald Trump.

All pop stars performing in the Glastonbury U.K festival expressed their dissent with the current verdict. Olivia Rodrigo took the stage and expressed how this was a distressing and terrifying time for all the women in the U.S.A. She claimed that this decision is going to take the lives of lots of women and girls. She called out the SCOTUS justices and expressed her disgust over them through a song by Lily Allen “(Expletive) You”.

Billie Eilish also expressed her sadness over the dark days and period the women are going to face in the U.S.A. She dedicated her song “ Your Power” to this particular incident and commented on how those who have the power in their hands should not abuse them to the harm of others and malign the sacred foundation of democracy.