The Coachella Headliner Sash Feud of 2025 is still going strong. Discourse began when Coachella headliners were first announced in November, and Charli XCX was billed lower than Green Day—who headlined both weekends on the main stage. After Charli’s performance at the festival’s opening weekend, she was spotted at an after-party wearing a sash that read, “Miss Should Be Headliner.” Very, as the Brits would say, cheeky, Charli.
But we have our own princes of cheek in the USA. Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong stepped out for the band’s April 19 closing set wearing a green BRAT hat. Solid move. (Although Armstrong wearing a lime green hat that says “BRAT” could have happened at any point in the last three decades and no one would have batted an eye.) At the same show, Green Day drummer Tré Cool was photographed backstage wearing a handmade white sash that read “Actual Headliner.” Charli quickly quote tweeted the photo with the caption, “obsessed.”
As it turns out, this silly exchange has become a bit of a Rorschach test for… let’s say, devoted fans, with some interpreting it to mean, “I am obsessed with Tré Cool,” and others interpreting it to mean, “Tré Cool is obsessed with me.” A quick perusal of replies shows a highly divided fan base, with sentiments ranging from “But when you do it, you’re not obsessed? Lol ok,” to “Why is everyone purposefully misunderstanding this to hate? She clearly means she loves it.” (The latter is the correct interpretation, but since when has being correct mattered on Twitter?)
This spawned–if you can believe it—another round of discourse about who is more deserving of the title of Coachella headliner. On the one hand, Charli fans were quick to point out she had the album of the (brat) summer and, as the more current artist, should have been given the headliner slot. In the Green Day corner, fans pointed to both the band’s three decades of success in the industry as well as the actual content of their show. During both sets, Green Day altered some of the lyrics of “Jesus of Suburbia” from “Runnin’ away from pain when you’ve been victimized” to “Runnin’ away from pain like the kids from Palestine” and “Am I (stupid) or am I just overjoyed?” to “Am I (stupid) or am I just J.D. Vance?” So basically, some classic Green Day stuff.
As one fan put it:
I’m sorry, but are we forgetting when Charli used her platform to say Kamala IS brat? Also, isn’t a 32-year-old woman singing about still wanting to party and battling insecurities and the complexities of female friendship political in its own right? Also also, isn’t everyone clearly joking?
Here’s hoping they all work it out on the remix. We need a new song of the summer and a Charli x Green Day drop could be just the thing we need to heal this broken nation.
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