
“Basket Case”—Green Day
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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How Do You Read Billy Joe Armstrong as a Lyricist?
I think I was always interested in where people were from. And so I was more interested in Green Day as a geographical, you know, because for me, I love this idea that everyone was just massive and on my TV screen. Like he's not super clever or fancy, but like he's ambitious, right? He's thinking rock operas. He's thinking like stadium anthems. That's something he's proved to be very good at. You mentioned the lyrical signature of the West Coast. How do you hear Billy Joe Armstrong as a lyricist? Yeah.
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