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Linda Perry Says She Was Fired From Producing Green Day's American Idiot Follow-Up, Calls Billie Joe Armstrong "A Little Pussy"

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Linda Perry, the 4 Non Blondes vocalist and acclaimed songwriter, reveals in an NME interview that she was originally slated to produce the follow-up to Green Day's American Idiot, but was fired from the project. She criticizes Billie Joe Armstrong, calling him "a little pussy," and also discusses her past comment calling Courtney Love "a power bottom." The article covers Perry's blunt opinions on these rock figures and her experience being dropped from the production role.

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Billie Joe's a little pussy

Courtney acts like this tough person – and she is. She's very intimidating, but really...

In another reality, the follow-up to Green Day's pivotal album American Idiot would have been produced by lauded songwriter and 4 Non Blondes vocalist Linda Perry

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In another reality, the follow-up to Green Day’s pivotal album American Idiot would have been produced by lauded songwriter and 4 Non Blondes vocalist Linda Perry. But in this reality, Perry thinks Armstrong is “a little pussy.” In a recent NME interview,

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