Watch Green Day perform "American Idiot" ahead of Super Bowl LX

Despite the outspokenness ahead of the big game and their performance, Green Day and frontman Billy Joe Armstrong didn’t get especially political during their performance before kickoff at Super Bowl LX. That being said, the band did perform “Holiday,” “Boulevard Of Broken Dreams,” and “American Idiot,” of which at least two are explicitly critical of the United States government’s actions around the Iraq War, and performed them at an event eager to mention that we’re in the 250th anniversary year of the U.S., so it wasn’t exact apolitical, either. In any case, the crowd at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara seemed to be very on board, if the sound from the live video is any indication. 

Green Day as expected killed it opening for the Super Bowl! LFG🤘🏽🔥 #SuperBowlLX #SuperBowl pic.twitter.com/dqVEDwZMNt

— Giselle//💥⏳ 💍💫 (@giselleb1234) February 8, 2026

Outside of the song choices, the most incendiary thing that happened during the set was Armstrong apparently opting not to censor the lyric “subliminal mind-fuck America” during “American Idiot,” which nevertheless was censored on NBC and Peacock anyway. 

Armstrong made the band’s stance on current events quite clear ahead of the performance. At Spotify and FanDuel’s party in San Francisco on Friday night, Armstrong said to any ICE agents that may have been listening, “Quit that shitty job you have, because when this is over—and it will be over at some point in time—Kristi Noem, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Donald Trump, they’re going to drop you like. a bad fucking habit. Come on this side of the line.”