John Lydon's Incoherent Ramblings

I respect John Lydon's contributions to punk history, but I never thought of him as a great musician.

Why?

The Sex Pistols are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame based off of one, yes one, single studio album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols.

If you never heard of the band before today, you could hear their singular contribution to music in under 40 minutes. Their cultural shifting attitude was something else all together. You want to do some Sex Pistols research on your own? Start Here.

Yes, I'm aware of Lydon's Public Image Ltd, but through a dozen studio albums, they had some nice songs, but I never thought of the band as anything special.

With that being said, I have been perplexed as to how to respond to what 69 year old Johnnie said about the American President. "Donald Trump is the Sex Pistols of politics - I met him and didn't like him"

For a week this article sat in my Drafts section, I was dumbfounded and astounded all at the same time. I didn't know what to say.

I went to Google AI and asked it to create a paragraph of pure and random gibberish. This was the result:

"Blork flibber snit the quux, and the zargle-flargle went kersplat in the gubble-muffin. Shizzle-dizzle, the purple platypus yodeled in abstract squiggles, causing the nearby jiggle-wobble to spontaneously combust with a cheerful piffle-piffle. This, of course, upset the spectral gherkin, which was busy pondering the nuances of intergalactic fuzz-motes and the existential dread of a misplaced apostrophe."

And that made more sense than the Donald Trump quote. Donald Trump may be the least punk person on the planet.

If he's "punk" it's because he can't remember what he said yesterday and is in the throngs of cognitive decline, THAT'S NOT PUNK.

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I am rarely at this much of a loss and unable to articulate.

Maybe I'm on the slippery slope of mental decay. THAT DOESN'T MAKE ME PUNK.

Everything is so absurd.

Article over.

Seriously. What are we doing here?

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Oxford Dictionary gets the last word:

noun

1. 1.a loud, fast-moving, and aggressive form of rock music, popular in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

   "punk had turned pop music and its attendant culture on its head"

   
   

adjective

1. relating to punk rock and its associated subculture.

   "a punk band"

   
   

verb

informal•US English

1. trick or deceive.

   "the Associated Press got punked with a fake tweet"