John Lydon said he was “boring” but now he asks Taylor Swift’s duet

John Lydon, formerly known as Johnny Rottenhe is a most unpredictable guy: he has gone from criticizing Taylor Swift to affirm that he would like to collaborate with the pop superstar.

The exvocalist of Sex Pistols and Frontman of Public Image Ltdlast February, he described Swift as an artist “Incredibly boring“:”There is a whole story of such singers in the United States: the teenage pop trivial. What has become too elaborate and is trapped for not wanting to bother its fans base … Oh, fuck!“

“No, seriously, it’s nonsense. He has nothing place to go, so he has gotten into the roll of dance dresses. It will be another one of those that end in Las Vegas, because it is the only place that remains and that has no future, right? “

A drastic change of opinion

The fact is that, talking to The Mirror (via NME), The singer has said that, in reality, he respects the success that Taylor has achieved in his career, affirming that he would be more than open to collaborate with her: “Those who do that kind of music, like Taylor, do it very well,” He said to the environment. “She deserves to do it. Imagine that duet”

In his previous comments, speaking with NME, Lydon also loaded against Lady Gaga, which he said he didn’t like it, “As a human being”

“Lady Gaga was a presentation with many layers and textures, very much from the time of Bowie and pop music at its expression. But what has become the bizarre world”said. “Act in movies and I don’t like it as a human being. I don’t think he projects anything healthy. I don’t feel his soul. I don’t feel his heart in her. I think it’s a shame. I should have another facet.”

Sex pistols without him

In 2024, Paul Cook, Glen Matlock and Steve Jones made a team with Carter To offer three concerts with the objective of raising funds at the Bush Hall in London with intention, in fact, to save the closing premises. But the thing was so good that, first, the band launched itself on tour by the United Kingdom exhausting tickets. And of course, from there everything has been to close dates everywhere.

And why wasn’t Lydon invited? Because it is fought with the rest of the band, having fought, in 2021, a legal battle not being happy with how the group was portrayed in the documentary of Danny Boyle ‘Pistol‘. The biographical series, for the singer, “It does not look like reality in almost anything”

And it seems that, from lost to the river. The sex pistols are on the road again, and it is not with the good of Johnny Rotten: “When I learned that the Sex Pistols were going to tour this year without me. It bothered me“, says Lydon of the pistols meeting. “I just thought: “They will end absolutely with all the good of the pistols, eliminating the meaning and purpose of everything.” I didn’t write those words lightly“

“They are trying to trivialize the entire show to get yours with their karaoke, but in the long term I think it will see who has value and who is not. I have never sold my soul to earn a dollar. It is the Catholic in me, that fault with which I don’t want to stumble.

“As Nancy Reagan, it has always been easy for me to say “no.” If something challenges your heart and your soul and your mind and your sense of purity of what is right and wrong in the world, then simply say.

“What, according to the corporate thought that the music of the music riddles, makes me worthy of the title of ‘someone with whom it is difficult to work’, a title that I am very proud.”