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The rock band went from being alternative to the singers of everyone's graduation
song for a decade. It was something unpredictable, but in the end, “Good
Riddance” was actually a song about lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s ex. “It’s
about an ex-girlfriend who had moved to Ecuador,” the singer told Guitar World,
according to Louder Sound. “In the song, I tried to be level-headed about her
leaving, even though I was completely pissed off. So I named it ‘Good Riddance’
just to express my anger.”
The rock band went from being alternative to the singers of everyone's graduation
song for a decade. It was something unpredictable, but in the end, “Good
Riddance” was actually a song about lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong’s ex. “It’s
about an ex-girlfriend who had moved to Ecuador,” the singer told Guitar World,
according to Louder Sound. “In the song, I tried to be level-headed about her
leaving, even though I was completely pissed off. So I named it ‘Good Riddance’
just to express my anger.”