by John Lydon isn’t a fan of Taylor Swift’s music.
The singer recently spoke on NME’s ‘Does Rock N Roll Kill Braincells?!’ and said he doesn’t follow modern punk bands like IDLES or Fontaines D.C. Then, he was asked about his past support for Lady Gaga.
Lydon responded, “Lady Gaga was a massively layered and textured presentation – very Bowie era and pop music at its finest. But what she’s turned into is Bizarro World. She’s acting in films, and I don’t like her as a human being.”
“I don’t think she projects anything healthy. I don’t feel any soul. I don’t feel her heart in it. It seems a shame. She should have another side to her,” the rocker further said of Gaga.
He went on to talk about Swift, explaining, “She’s incredibly dull. There’s a whole history of that kind of singer in America: the pop teenage trivia thing. What she’s grown into is too elaborate and she’s trapped by not meaning to annoy her fanbase – oh f*ck off!”
“No really, it’s just daft. She’s got no place to go, so it’s gone into swishy ballroom-gown vibe. She’s going to be another one of those that ends up in Vegas, because that’s the only place left and that’s no future at all, is it?” Lydon predicted about Swift’s future.
Lydon’s former bandmates Steve Jones, Glen Matlock, and Paul Cook announced a semi-reunion tour with Frank Carter replacing him. “I wrote the f*cking songs, didn’t I? I gave them the image as the frontman,” Lydon said of their decision to continue with a new vocalist. “I am the voice what made the whole world sing.”
He continued, “Now you’re going out… As they did the year before with Billy Idol. It’s just karaoke really. I would love to be embarrassed by high-quality songwriting from them. They’ve had long enough to get that together now, haven’t they? But no, they profess their hatred for me but they can’t live without me. I am the punishment that goes on giving [Laughs].”
Sex Pistols will perform with Carter in Australia in April 2025.
