Green Day Unveils Latest ‘Saviors Track ‘One Eyed Bastard’

It has been quite the week for Green Day. The band kicked off the year with an appearance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin Eve, where singer Billie Joe Armstrong angered MAGA supporters by changing a line in “American Idiot” from “I’m not part of a redneck agenda” to “I’m not part of the MAGA agenda.” Naturally, that got folks up in arms and was a talking point on cable news. This morning (Jan. 5), the band shared the fourth single from their upcoming album, Saviors. Titled “One Eyed Bastard,” the track veers away from the band’s pop punk sound that was prevalent on Saviors’ first three singles and leans into hard rock.

“’One Eyed Bastard’ started off as just a riff that I had — a shuffle, almost like a Black Sabbath kind of riff. Lyrically, I was just reflecting on bad times in life,” Billie Joe Armstrong said. “That’s the thing about nostalgia, sometimes you think, “That was an awful time.” Everybody’s got that ugly place in their life where they have to deal with ugly thoughts — it could be like revenge or whatever. Thankfully, I have an outlet in songwriting.”