John Lydon On Lady Gaga and Madonna 

He is genius

But he likes the queen now.

@@antyeardsley That's his choice. I don't have to agree with everything to love him. And I'm from America so I have no Queen to be concerned over... and this is a six year old comment...

Honest!?!? You have got to be kidding? The man doesn't have an honest bone in his body. Every sound he utters is strictly for attention.

@@TCrob What I mean by honest is that he couldn't give two shits and will speak his mind no matter how offensive or controversial.

Me too hahahahah x

I like how my butthole itches when I take a dump

And why not great live bands

Rob Stewart That's nothing, I've just seen Rod Stewart posting on youtube

Yeah the fact she shocks people in very smart way, brilliant. Half the world hates because she looks ''extreme'' while her music is right on, she writes and performs her own music, can't imagine many popstars doing that nowadays.

Yeah well she was quite good at that stage, it petered out though.

Original. Lol good one, wait you're serious. All these weird "artists" all copied Kate Fucking Bush, The best female artist of all time. Ranked by the Telegraph as the second best British song-writer topped only by John Lennon.

My boomer cousin in NYC is a bigshot and knows most of the elites that live there.. well he has rave reviews for Gaga (as a person)

You seem to have forgotten the ineffable Neu, Kraftwerk, Tangerine Dream, Captain Beefheart and Sparks

And Sid.

NocturnalFear138 he really liked Sid. He also feels responsible for his death.

Nah rotten likes alot of stuff. It's Morrissey who hates everything

He's still a rotten bastard and he knows it all too well..

Joanne

Aint nothing good about weirdo yuppies and drum machines

She’s a great songwriter, that’s why she’s so successful.

Me too!! Breath of fresh air from a person I've known(not personally but through the music) since junior high!🥰

Never mind the routines she's just a superb musician the way many of her contemporaries aren't. She has a lovely singing voice that doesn't need autotune.

Finally...

+Marcus Olsson I get the impression that it's a running gag, would like to hear him elaborate on why he says "McCarthy"....

explain to me how hes a genius please?

This is abit unfair as Lady Gaga wasn't even born when Madonnas first album came out. Lady Gaga's first 3 albums are only a 11-15 years old, Madonna's are 32 -37 years old. That's a big gap, which is why you can't say that it's just not fair as Lady Gagas albums are more fresh, they aren't even vintage yet.

Lada Gaga is a cheap Madonna knock-off. And Madonna did not have a creative bone in here body

Uncle99B That is absolutely right!!!Fuck off with Lady Gaga

sejlali1 Not me. I'm a huge fan of Iggy, The Damned, The Clash, Johnny Lydon, Dead Kennedys, etc. going all the way back to the 80s. And I think Lady Gaga is awesome, just like Lydon. No confusion here!

McLarenMercedes nope

sarcatic about what? i think ur walking around with ur eyes shut mate he sounded pretty fucking convincing to me. i think ur just thick

He's definitely not being sarcastic.

Gaga wipes the floor with Madonna. She can sit down at the piano and play and sing. Madonna couldn't do that as it would show her lack of genuine talent.

Sid was the looker.

***** You're a bitch!

***** Basically you got away with it until now, and now you are annoyed at being called out. Grow up ya li'l sket.

***** The artificial 'if you reply I've won' taunt... doesn't work with me hun. Unfortunately, you are not intelligent enough to manipulate my thoughts. You're just a little bitch who can't handle the fact that someone else has noticed she's a bitch and needs to grow up... look who's backtracking and now saying lady G is uninteresting despite following her around youtube. Cow.

***** You ungrateful little man, I was sticking up for you... If you can't understand my rant I think it says more about you than me... Of course that li'l cow Brittany didn't understand it as she's just a girl, but I expected more from you Edward.

wailer27 youtube fights...I dont know which is more ridiculous, the reactions my comment spawned or the fact your all so emotionally invested into proving yourselves to totally strangers.

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hey, will do, I used to live dulwich!

***** Lady Gaga is a narcissist willing to do and say anything that gets her noticed. She has contradicted herself numerous times, when every time she says the thing the people around her wants to hear. She has said "Now, I don’t know if you know this, but for those of you who don’t know, I write all my own music. Every single lyric, melody and note was created by me. I am not manufactured." ... I wonder what RedOne, Darkchild, Fernando Garibay, Rob Fusari, Akon, Martin Kierszenbaum, and about fifty other engineers, backing vocalists, producers, writers, musicians, marketing assistants and A&R reps would have to say about that? Not manufactured... haha.. sure. Yet she doesn't even want to recognize her birthname. She IS a product.. and she's the biggest fan of herself. Lady Gaga has cast herself as the champion of misfits, eccentrics, and weirdos, telling them to embrace their identity, no matter what the costs; no matter what others might say to them. But she is particularly ill-equipped for such a role, given that she herself compromised her identity to win stardom.. She changed the style of music she made, the style of person she was and even had plastic surgery. We already saw David Bowie as Ziggy Stardust in the 70's. At best she revived the glam rock personality for a generation that never knew about it.

Cassius Chaerea every word you wrote is spot on perfect!!!

David Bowie wasn't _his_ birth name either. What's your point about that? BTW, hyperbole is a thing, you know. I don't know much about her as she's not my cup of tea, but I'd guess that she's referring to her own stuff, specifically. Those mostly sound like collabs to me.

And Kate Bush does it better than all of them combined. Bjork is a Kate Bush worshiper and she probably has a shrine of Kate.

he hates Green Day because they ruined Punk

+mynameisdudge They DON'T Blink Fuckin Shit 182, DID'IT!!!

Blink 182 was pretty good on their early records Dude Ranch is way better than anything green day ever released imo and at least they are not doing fucking musicals and shit

El Padrino still all pop music, just with instruments

+mynameisdudge yeah but if you really analize it The Ramones were the first pop punk band not trying to cause any controversy but in their first records there were songs like I wanna be your boyfriend and sheena is a punk rocker thats one of the poppiest songs I've heard so that thing about "pop" in punk music was there from the beggining in my opinion :/

Exactly... Trash!!

It is like 1990s Euro dance.

With copy and paste from the '80s... I love your name... you're friggin' right... the web was one of the reason of the dyin' scene.

And to think Madonna was more famous than Kate Bush, what is wrong with this world.

@@datukaruma1563 it’s a world that has always preferred blonde bimbos with little talent over proper talented women ..

how Offspring destroyed punk and Green Day not?

That’s just my opinion ! I hate when you don’t know if Rotten is being sarcastic or not. Seems like he hates everyone sometimes. Green Day has been very faithful to the Clash and to Stiff Little Fingers, I think. But Offspring has opened for Californian… shit. Sorry ! I’m a bit angry at the moment and just think they should not call it Californian Punk, but Californian… anything ! Californian Surf, Californian music. Offspring maybe made an excellent first album. But then they went down and were followed by all those Blink 182 and Sum41. And that is something, but certainly not Punk !

Habibasse It all started way back with Billy Idol and slowly escalated to MTV punk. I think Green Day had much bigger impact on pop punk scene and on later shitty bands like Blink and Sum. They were more recognizable, successful and more melodic. What are you talking about Californian? Green Day are also Californian.

Sure ! But they don’t have a typical Californian sound. Billy Idol & Tony James were together in Generation X, one of the best punk bands ever. They had nothing to prove. Even if all they did afterwards was poppy !

No, Blink 182 did!

i agree, it's really, really poor

sratus its so sad to say that such an artistic like john say something like this. i feel like they say they like things like this because its aesthetically edgy.

Oh no, how dare he like something we don't... How fucking wrong of him. God forbid. The Earth crumbles a bit faster knowing someone likes a Lady Gaga song.

Dan Maginnis " you can like lady gaga" yeah i definitely sounded like you lol. But to call her music around the time of this interview anything structurally advanced is no opinionated. Her albums had basic pop formula that could be easily broken down. I don't enjoy her new material, but i acknowledge it as a step into something structurally different. I was saying he only said he enjoyed lady as a gimmick to act like anything that is publicly edgy is somehow meaningful or artful.

I just think you're over analyzing his statement and giving it more meaning than he probably intended. I don't like Lady Gaga much at all but i'd rather listen to her than the majority of shite that comes on a workplace radio. Why? I dunno, maybe it's the appreciation of the fact that she can actually write her own songs, she can play instruments, she can sing really well, the lyrical content is more thoughtful than the typical "ooer ooer" noises and Rihanna's half drunk gibberish lyrics. Whether her song structures are as complicated as anything by Rush doesn't really matter does it? You don't listen to music thinking "ohhh yes i love that A B A C A B format, very well designed"... no

I had idea; I am in the forties I know what I am saying.

What do you mean by "you ain't no clue"?

Oh come on I used to listen to his first interviews and all that stuff when he hated everything including pop music of course. Now he turned be opinionated but he was not a consistent musician. I mean, he slagged off Madonna and at the end of the day she is even punkier than he is. She ends up "liking" lady gaga who is a real copy cat. So, years made him soft.

He ends up not she sorry!!!

He ends up not she sorry!!!

Very true tbh. Gaga looks really like Nancy. How ODD..

She does now, she didn't seem to in the beginning - she had more of a sense of fun. And though I think she does believe in gay right she courts the 'gay' demographic shamelessly and in what I think is a really cynical way. She wants their votes - she wants their custom. But all that 'mother monster' shite makes me want to hurl.

Yes, she is one helluva talent.

@@markvarley2962 like you then?