New Music: Green Day Releases Queer-Inclusive ‘Bobby Sox’

Iconic Gen X band Green Day recently dropped their new single, “Bobby Sox,” from their 14th studio album, Saviors. The track is a rocked-out love song featuring frontman Billie Joe Armstrong singing to prospective partners (male and female) in a nod to his bisexuality. In the music video, the trio throws a queer-inclusive house party complete with folks making out, getting tattoos, and flipping off a roof to crowd surf. In a press statement, Armstrong calls “Bobby Sox” one of his favorite songs on the album: “It’s the ‘Nineties’90s song that we never wrote.” “It started out being a song I wrote for my wife,” he says. “But as it materialized, I wanted to switch it up and added, ‘Do you wanna be my boyfriend?’ on top of ‘Do you wanna be my girlfriend’ … So the song becomes a kind of universal anthem.” In an interview with PEOPLE, Armstrong (who came out as bisexual in 1995) shared he thinks it’s “f**king cool” that people look up to him as a “bisexual icon,” and that he considers the new single to be a “queer singalong.” It’s not often we hear queer-inclusive hardcore pop/punk. Listen below – it lands right in that Green Day sweet spot. https://youtu.be/NDjtguZG6iw?si=HPc1ck4iIVu59ULq