Former Intercourse Pistols frontman John Lydon lately spoke to NME and mentioned that he thinks pop icon Taylor Swift is “extremely boring” and he “doesn’t like Girl Gaga as a human being”.
Lydon, the founding father of Public Picture Ltd. was talking as a part of this week’s version of Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?!, through which he mirrored on his time within the music business and his most memorable moments.
He responded to a query about whether or not he retains up with modern punk bands like IDLES, Fontaines D.C. or Bob Vylan, to which he mentioned there’s “not a lot level”, including “I’m not answerable for having to verify all of them out”.
That prompted an additional query about his earlier championing of Girl Gaga, to which he mentioned:
“Girl Gaga was a massively layered and textured presentation – very Bowie period and pop music at its best. However what she’s become is Bizarro World. She’s performing in movies, and I don’t like her as a human being. I don’t suppose she tasks something wholesome. I don’t really feel any soul. I don’t really feel her coronary heart in it. It appears a disgrace. She ought to have one other aspect to her.”
He additionally talked about all-pervasive reputation of Taylor Swift. “She’s extremely boring,” he mentioned. “There’s a complete historical past of that sort of singer in America: the pop teenage trivia factor. What she’s grown into is simply too elaborate and he or she’s trapped by not which means to bother her fanbase – oh f*** off!”
“No actually, it’s simply daft. She’s bought no place to go, so it’s gone into swishy ballroom-gown vibe. She’s going to be one other a type of that leads to Vegas, as a result of that’s the one place left and that’s no future in any respect, is it?”