“I lost six months of scheduled work... It happened because I was a woman and I’d written pop songs”: Linda Perry calls Billie Joe Armstrong a “pussy” for backtracking on her producing Green Day

Linda Perry in a large hat.

The multi-million-selling songwriter Linda Perry has accused Billie Joe Armstrong of being a “pussy” after getting cold feet over collaborating with her.

It seems that Perry was lined up to produce Green Day’s follow-up album to their huge-selling 2004 American Idiot album – the record that eventually became 2009’s 21^st Century Breakdown. Perry’s track record as a songwriter is second to none: she’s penned mega-selling hits for Pink, Gwen Stefani and Christina Aguilera, though of course she comes from a rock background – 4 Non Blondes were briefly one of the biggest alt rock bands of the immediate post-grunge period.