Charli XCX ruffles Green Day fans’ feathers after sporting “Miss Should Be Headliner” sash at Coachella 2025 afterparty

Green Day fans have taken to social media to criticise Charli XCX after she was seen sporting a “Miss should be headliner” sash at a Coachella afterparty.

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On Saturday (April 12), Charli’s 7pm set on the Main Stage fell before Green Day’s headline slot, and saw her bring out a handful of the artists featured on the ‘Brat‘ remix album, ‘Brat and it’s completely different but also still brat‘.

The ‘Apple’ singer was joined by Troye Sivan, Billie Eilish and Lorde, who came out to perform their ‘Girl, so confusing’ remix, with Charli seemingly passing the torch and heralding “Lorde summer 2025”.

Following on from her set, Green Day’s headline performance saw them alter a ‘Jesus of Suburbia’ lyric to reference the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict, with frontman Billie Joe Armstrong singing, “Runnin’ away from pain like the kids from Palestine/Tales from another broken home,” replacing the original line, “Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimised.”

Charli xcx wearing a “Miss Should Be Headliner” sash at her Coachella afterparty! pic.twitter.com/NVnvIfI5qS

— (@concertleaks) April 13, 2025

Charli was later pictured at an afterparty wearing a sash that read: “Miss should be headliner”. However, this soon drew some backlash from Green Day fans, with some deeming it insensitive given punk icons using their set to address the atrocities in Palestine and take aim at Donald Trump.

It’s not the first time the band have updated their songs to reflect the current political climate. In 2016, they gave ‘Holiday’ a lyric change to attack “white supremacist” then-Republic candidate Donald Trump.

Then, on a performance on New Year’s Eve of 2023, they made headlines for altering the lyrics to the iconic 2004 track ‘American Idiot’, replacing the original line “I’m not a part of a redneck agenda” with “I’m not a part of the MAGA agenda”.

“Green day making a political statement about shit that actually matters > pop girlies singing about coke,” wrote one unimpressed fan, with more weighing in about the size of their respective audiences. “Charli xcx letting hype get to her head,” added one X/Twitter user. “Green Day used their Coachella headliner slot to speak up for good. They are still bigger than her.”

Check out more social media reactions below:

Meanwhile, Green Day, 38 years into their career, still has more monthly listeners than Charli, at her peak. Y’all kids need to sit down and learn about the world outside of you echo chambers. https://t.co/bGMhFOSgI3 pic.twitter.com/4XEQsfqUWS

— S (@Whatsername_94) April 13, 2025

First, apart on stan twt, Charli is nowhere near Green Day. Secondly Green Day actually used their performance to support Palestine “running away from pain like the kids from Palestine” and call out that nasty president. She better sit down and keep quiet pic.twitter.com/aauzZkq9oZ https://t.co/yAHTuOihCr

— Auri. ⁷ (@loverforBbright) April 13, 2025

green day has been selling out shows and headlining tours since she was two years old and none of them have ever brought this kind of public bitchiness to any gig they’ve played. that’s why they’ve been at the top for 30+ years and charli fell off after summer 2024 https://t.co/aARig5Cq3b

— 𝔰𝔞𝔳𝔦𝔬𝔯 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔟𝔯𝔬𝔨𝔢𝔫 ✩.˚₊ (@witheringxlilac) April 14, 2025

even if you disagree and think charli should’ve headlined over green day, her wearing that sash is just like so insanely disrespectful to a pillar legacy act in the music industry like idk girl you could’ve just kept it classy and not worn it

— dev k4i (@baddieyuta) April 14, 2025

green day said free palestine and called out trump during their set meanwhile all charli xcx did during her set was be a cokehead and use bad autotune, artists are supposed to stand for something not be petty losers https://t.co/GlBzh3Kcf5

— ♡illumi’s fave needle♡ (@WHORESCOPE_1117) April 14, 2025

this is such a stan twitter opinion i’m crying bc in what world is charli a bigger draw than green day https://t.co/25xoto196M

— peacekeeper (@blueprintnic) April 11, 2025

me liking every single anti charli xcx/pro green day tweet pic.twitter.com/HZjvmFJZ2c

— defo (@cuminuplavender) April 14, 2025

Charli xcx letting hype get to her head. Green Day used their Coachella headliner slot to speak up for good. They are still bigger than her. https://t.co/03moEuPxHZ pic.twitter.com/2RqJ7258Kl

— Mars (@Marsspace17_) April 13, 2025

imagine thinking charli xcx bigger than green day https://t.co/4bq4aV47Hx pic.twitter.com/QZAKLqupDR

— ⁷ (@beaniepop_) April 13, 2025

i’ve never hated on charli as a person because she seems cool enough, but girl green day headlined, whereas you’ve had one hit album. https://t.co/yzu1967hkN

— molly! (@smoshandtaylor) April 14, 2025

never thought i’d be defending green day to charli xcx stans pic.twitter.com/U4YHxVKW5j

— i hate men (@methaddict3OOO) April 14, 2025

Elsewhere over weekend, Lady Gaga performed a theatrical five-act set, and A. G. Cook brought out Danny Brown, performing a host of tracks before remixing Charli’s ‘Party 4 U’.

Billie Joe Armstrong also joined The Go-Go‘s on stage for a performance of their 1984 hit single ‘Head Over Heels’, and there was controversy during Kneecap‘s set after they led an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant, with fans reporting the online stream had cut out shortly after.

YouTube will be livestreaming the festival via the Coachella YouTube channel. Last year’s edition of the festival was headlined by Lana Del Rey, Doja Cat and Tyler, The Creator and also saw the return of No Doubt and more.

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