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Basket Case Billy Joe Armstrong

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“Basket Case” is a bubble gum punk song about a pretty serious topic. The term basket case refers to someone who is unable to function - in this case due to mental distress “I am one of those melodramatic fools neurotic to the bone no doubt about it.Sometimes I give myself the creeps, sometimes my mind plays tricks on me.” Green Day singer Billie Joe Armstrong wrote the song about his then - undiagnosed panic attacks. “I think i'm cracking up”Armstrong told VH1 “The only way I knew what was happening was to write a song about it.” As Armstrong told Rolling Stone “ The gender change up was no accident. (can’t write line due to vulgarity) I wanted to challenge myself and who ever the listener may be.” “Its also looking at the world saying,

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