Said John Lydon (Johnny Rotten), quoted in "‘I know what it’s like to be frightened’: John Lydon on loneliness, lyrics and life as a Sex Pistol" (The Guardian). Lydon has been married to Nora Forster, since 1979, and she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2018.
Of the Danny Boyle’s Disney miniseries about the Sex Pistols, he says: "It’s dead against everything we once stood for."
The reporter, Tim Jonze says Lydon expressed political opinions that were "largely incoherent":
So, yes, Lydon still backs Trump. But he dismisses our own Trumpian prime minister as a “Humpty Dumpty teddy bear” who can’t get anything done. Then he does another about-turn by hitting a rather Johnsonesque note about loving flag waving and his issues with “BLM and the woke and all of that – making problems that really were almost semi-non-existent.”
After all that, he then says he has no issue at all with the fight for transgender rights – “fantastic. If as an adult that’s what you’ve come to the conclusion of, then there’s every chance you’re right” – before following up with an amusing but completely misguided story from his own youth. “I remember going to the doctor as a teenager because one of my nipples, the left one, was a bit swollen, and I panicked, I thought I was growing tits. And I think now how, in the hands of a wrong doctor, that might have changed my future … I could have been Joan Rotten by misdiagnosis!”
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The manipulation of information by journalists when they interject their own emotions where they don’t belong?
Warped.
1970s UK Punks (i.e., the Sex Pistols) were in a very different world, and behaved in a rather Trumpian fashion too. They fought against BBC censorship and the monarchy/class-based culture.
Johnny Rotten was like Trump for singing aggressively hostile lyrics directed at the establishment, such as: "Anarchy in the U.K." and "God save the Queen, she ain't no human being." When Anarchy in the U.K. hit #1, it was "cancelled" and appeared as just an "*".
https://www.counterfire.org/articles/opinion/18632-anarchy-in-the-uk-iconoclasm-s-greatest-hit
So, the screw of politics turns and what was left-wing anarchy versus right-wing propriety has become right-wing libertarianism versus left-wing censorship. Political pendulums will swing as they always do, just do your best to prevent the pendulum from detaching and killing lots of people.
He sounds like a libertarian, which is enough for the left to hate him.
"Of the Danny Boyle’s Disney miniseries about the Sex Pistols..."
Disney?
John Lyndon is as coherent as they come. Maybe that was what punk rock was actually about... raging for coherence.
Danny Boyle’s Disney miniseries about the Sex Pistols, he says: "It’s dead against everything we once stood for."
hmm?? hmmp!
Disney==making money
Everything the Sex Pistols once stood for==making money
i'm Quite Sure i DON'T see the problem. Of Course, PART of the 'pistols making money was to PRETEND to be against something; so OF COURSE, he HAS TO PRETEND that this is "It’s dead against everything we once stood for."
But, to be fair; the 'pistols version of "Cum on Everybody" is The BEST, EVER
The reporter, Tim Jonze says Lydon expressed political opinions that were "largely incoherent":
The reporter's cognitive dissonance presumes that Johnny is incoherent. Johnny makes perfect sense.
So, yes, Lydon still backs Trump. But he dismisses our own Trumpian prime minister as a “Humpty Dumpty teddy bear” who can’t get anything done.
What is incoherent about that?
The only thing Boris has in common with Trump is his hair.
I loved the lyric in God Save the Queen explaining why the Royals existed: "Cause tourists are MONEY!!!"
Good god, was that 44 years ago?
Lydon has always decried rock critics and others that want to "bracket" performers in certain neat categories.
This reporter seems to want to do the same thing politically.
Products of lazy minds.
"Good god, was that 44 years ago?"
Yep! And the Royal Scam continues!
The journalist, Tim Jonze, almost wished he hadn't talked to the subject of his interview? Because Lydon backs Trump his opinions are "largely incoherent", rather than nuanced opinions that don't strictly lean left or right. It's too much to ask that a journalist's political opinions aren't discernible in an interview-based article.
Lydon is more coherent than Tom Jonze.
And by the way, do you believe that Jonze is his real family name?
Sheesh. The Guardian, aka The Grauniad. What do you expect?
Anything that deviates in the slightest from the Progressive narrative is "incoherent" to the Guardian.
His views are more coherent than those of, say, Neil Young. And that explains it. People who are binational or bicultural have more complicated political views than stay at home monoculturals, who find such views incomprehensible or "incoherent." But one has to be truly bicultural. Most grads of US colleges are depressingly monocultural, wherever they or their parents came from.
Collateral damage from taking a knee to the cargo cult.
You have to love punks and their long-term marriages. (Robert Fripp and Toyah Wilcox have been married since 1984.
It's not uncommon for people who voted Conservative in Britain to sympathize with the Democrats in the US, or for US Democrats to find that they aren't completely in synch with Labour. It also happens that people who hate the British establishment may have more of a problem with America's liberal elites than with eccentric American millionaires. Monocultural ideologues don't understand that.
When a reporter injects an opinion like "largely incoherent" they are really just telling the world how stupid the average journalist is.
"incoherent" to a journalist means "something I disagree with."
The only requirement for modern journalists is an acute case of Dunning-Kruger.
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