Linda Perry, songwriter, producer, and frontwoman of 4 Non Blondes, said Green Day backed out of an agreement for her to produce their follow-up to American Idiot. She claimed Billie Joe Armstrong contacted her and asked her to produce the next record after they discussed it. Perry said she cleared six months of work and planned recording sessions, suggesting the band track instruments together as a live unit while members recorded separately. She said the collaboration stopped after Courtney Love mentioned Perry’s involvement, which led to fan backlash. Perry said fans objected to her producing Green Day because she had produced pop singers, and Green Day stopped calling her, costing her scheduled work.
"“That was fucked-up,” Perry told NME in an interview published May 23rd. “All because (Green Day frontman) Billie Joe's a little pussy and got all this backlash from his fans and didn't like it.”"
"Perry claimed she cleared six-months of work from her calendar to produce Green Day. She said she had a plan for the recording sessions. The members of Green Day had been recording their parts for albums separately, according to the interview, and Perry suggested the band track their instruments together as a live band."
"“Then Courtney blabbed her mouth that I was producing,” Perry told NME. “Suddenly (Green Day) started getting backlash from their fans, upset they were 'bringing in Linda Perry who produced Pink 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.”"
Read at Consequence
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]