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Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong feared reaction to ‘Good Riddance’: “I thought people were gonna fucking hate it”
Green Day‘s Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed how he once thought that the band’s seminal track ‘Good Riddance’ would receive a hostile reception upon release.The acoustic number debuted on 1997’s ‘Nimrod’ and has gone on to become one of their most beloved tracks – played as the closing number for the vast majority of their live shows.However, Armstrong has now admitted he initially feared that the personal and romantic themes would cause fans to reject the band.“Doing something like Good Riddance was terrifying for me, to put myself out there and be that vulnerable,” he told Kerrang!“I thought people were probably gonna fucking hate it, you know? But I think the way that it resonated with people, I was able to kind of go, ‘Okay, now I’ve