{"id":806906,"date":"2020-04-29T07:38:56","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=991468"},"modified":"2020-04-29T07:38:56","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T13:38:56","slug":"billie-joe-armstrong-and-sons-cover-i-think-were-alone-now-on-corden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-and-sons-cover-i-think-were-alone-now-on-corden\/","title":{"rendered":"Billie Joe Armstrong and Sons Cover \u2018I Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u2019 on \u2018Corden\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Billie-Joe-Armstrong-and-Sons-Cover-I-Think-Were-Alone-Now-on-Corden-.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/green-day\/\" id=\"auto-tag_green-day\" data-tag=\"green-day\">Green Day<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/billie-joe-armstrong\/\" id=\"auto-tag_billie-joe-armstrong\" data-tag=\"billie-joe-armstrong\">Billie Joe Armstrong<\/a>, along with his sons Joey and Jakob, performed a cover of \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u201d on Tuesday\u2019s <em>Late Late Show With James Corden<\/em>. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Performing via the singer\u2019s recording studio, the Armstrongs delivered a fiery punk-pop take on the Tommy James and the Shondells single.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Armstrong previously covered \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u201d as part of his ongoing at-home covers series No Fun Mondays, which also featured the Green Day frontman performing \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-the-bangles-manic-monday-979374\/\">Manic Monday<\/a>\u201d with the Bangles\u2019 Susanna Hoffs and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-that-thing-you-do-987184\/\">That Thing You Do!<\/a>\u201d in tribute to the song\u2019s co-writer, Fountains of Wayne\u2019s Adam Schlesinger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI have a small studio, and as soon as the shutdown happened, I was like now I can go in and to occupy my time, go in and do some recording and some writing,\u201d Armstrong told Corden of the No Fun Mondays series. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In an interview that preceded the performance, Corden asked Armstrong \u2014 who has appeared on the big screen in <em>Ordinary World<\/em> and on the stage in the <em>American Idiot<\/em> musical \u2014 whether he\u2019d want to do more acting. \u201cI think so, I like to think of myself as a pretty decent b-movie actor,\u201d Armstrong said. \u201cI have a thing, I wanna do things like <em>The Young &amp; The Restless<\/em>, or do a soap opera.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/billie-joe-armstrong-sons-i-think-were-alone-now-corden-991468\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Green Day\u2019s Billie Joe Armstrong, along with his sons Joey and Jakob, performed a cover of \u201cI Think We\u2019re Alone Now\u201d on Tuesday\u2019s Late Late Show With James Corden. Performing via the singer\u2019s recording studio, the Armstrongs delivered a fiery punk-pop take on the Tommy James and the Shondells single. Armstrong previously covered \u201cI Think [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-12 16:37:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}