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Watch Green Day Perform “Basket Case” With Some Of Its “Embarrassingly Bad” Original Lyrics At iHeartRadio Music Awards

HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA – APRIL 01: (L-R) Tré Cool and Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day perform onstage during the 2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on April 01, 2024 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

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Green Day performed at the iHeartRadio Music Awards on Monday night, where they also accepted something called The Landmark Award. They did two tracks during the event: "Bobby Sox," off their most recent album Saviors, and "Basket Case," their Dookie mainstay.

For the latter, Billie Joe Armstrong sang what he's described as the "embarrassingly bad" original lyrics in the song's second verse, which surfaced on a demo included on the Dookie 30th anniversary deluxe edition.

Here's the performance:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=4uF4LQ9YfoU

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