twelvepoint wrote: Fri Sep 15, 2023 11:30 am “Why can’t this teenage girl be more like John Lydon?”

Why can't she be more like teenage John Lydon. How old was he when the Sex Pistols were recruited - eighteen, nineteen? It's a fair point.

But the music industry wasn't so focused on the pre-teen market in those days; the Sex Pistols weren't making music for nine year olds.

John Lydon supported Trump.

Krev wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:42 pm John Lydon supported Trump.

so cringey seeing 50 year olds dunking on a senior citizen

John Lydon is full of crazy opinions but he's also caring for a wife with Alzheimer's. Young John Lydon was full of crazy opinions but also said that Jimmy Saville was a child rapist and everybody at the BBC was covering it up, and yet somehow HE'S the one who's considered a menace to society.

Anyway, that's John Lydon. A complicated man. Scream is still not so great, but perhaps future generations will say that was the moment punk rock was born.

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:05 am John Lydon is full of crazy opinions but he's also caring for a wife with Alzheimer's. Young John Lydon was full of crazy opinions but also said that Jimmy Saville was a child rapist and everybody at the BBC was covering it up, and yet somehow HE'S the one who's considered a menace to society.

Nora Foster died earlier this year.

enframed wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:42 am

Anthony Flack wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:05 am John Lydon is full of crazy opinions but he's also caring for a wife with Alzheimer's. Young John Lydon was full of crazy opinions but also said that Jimmy Saville was a child rapist and everybody at the BBC was covering it up, and yet somehow HE'S the one who's considered a menace to society.

Nora Foster died earlier this year.

Her last wheezing breath was more punk rock than this chickie’s little scream

Krev wrote: Sat Sep 16, 2023 11:42 pm John Lydon supported Trump.

His comments at the time were something like how "punk" it was of Trump making a mockery of the whole thing but also claims he still voted for HRC (he's a US citizen/lives in LA).

i get being young and not being able to navigate around your terrible ideas but this song kinda sucks and that scream aint helping it. it's not NOT crap but i don't really care to vote either way. this might be one of those things the kids think is "fun" that my old-man brain thinks "sucks"

enframed wrote: Sun Sep 17, 2023 10:42 am Nora Foster died earlier this year.

I missed the news. John Lydon's devotion to Nora through the years was so sweet. Any time he does a crazy opinion I think of his caring nature, and how often the people who always say the correct thing in public are revealed to be the true assholes.