Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong on Pop-Punk Genre: 'Either You're Punk or You're Not'

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong flatly laid out his New Year's resolution on Dec. 31, tweeting, "my mission for 2016? to destroy the phrase 'pop-punk' forever.'

Now, with the Revolution Radio album due in two days, Armstrong is going into more depth. In a not-yet-online interview with U.K. magazine Kerrang! (via NME), the 44-year-old whose band hit the scene in 1990 says:

"I've always hated the phrase 'pop-punk.' I think it's a contradiction in terms. Either you're punk, or you're not. [The tweet] was not directed at any of the band [described this way], it's just that it's too singular a term for my tastes."