Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with NME, 4 Non Blondes frontwoman Linda Perry commented on claims suggesting she was set to produce Green Day’s follow-up to “American Idiot.” According to her, she cleared her schedule to work on the record, but the band’s frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was “a little pussy and got all this backlash from his fans.”

Perry said the following:

“I had a full calendar and cancelled six months of work to do it. I met with Billie Joe and we talked for three hours […] Like every artist, I think he had got to a point where you feel like I have nothing to say and need help – there’s a therapy aspect to producing too.

Then Courtney [Love] blabbed her mouth that I was producing. Suddenly they started getting backlash from their fans, upset they were ‘bringing in Linda Perry, who produced P!nk and Christina Aguilera.’

And then those guys just stopped calling me. I would reach out to figure out what was going on. Nobody called. I lost six months of scheduled work. That was fucked-up – all because Billie-Joe’s a little pussy and got all this backlash from his fans and didn’t like it.

Whatever! I’m good with it, but it was harsh and rude to do that. Just call me and say, ‘Hey, we’re going to go a different way. I’m not digging this backlash we’re getting.’ Just balls-up, man. Not returning my calls was such a pussy move, and I lost a lot of respect for Billie Joe.

It happened because I was a woman and I’d written pop songs. I was disappointed in those guys, and then I was mad at Courtney because if she would have just shut up, we would have made the record and it would have come out and it would have spoken for itself. I had a vision and knew I was going to kill that record.”