Lol, his songs were also cut in half, he also did a medley. And he had 15 minutes, not 3 and a half. I feel like this conversation is going nowhere. You do you. If you want to think the biggest mainstream artist in the world right now is somehow more politically impactful than American Idiot and Holiday, you do you ????

His performance celebrating Latin culture, including a Puerto Rican independence flag and calling all the Latin American countries American was more impactful than the censored versions of these songs which the media and fans reacted to by noting that they played it safe yeah. I liked that his performance included two male dancers grinding at one point and two female dancers as partners during the ballroom dancing section. Quite a few nice touches in there. I do get that they weren't granted as much freedom and time as him but his was the more impactful performance

But maybe it was meant to be that way and GD respected that?

I think it always would have been because he was the headliner and it was a great performance and a huge production. I don't think playing it so safe that the entire press and fan takeaway from the performance is that they played it super safe was necessary to prevent upstaging

The Democrats tik tok account posted their AI performance ?