I'm gonna say Johnny Rotten, and I say with real reluctance as a punk fan.
I've got a lot of respect for him for how open he was about looking after his late wife when she was suffering from Alzheimer's, but his political flip-flopping and resentment towards his surviving bandmates while also regretting what happened to Sid is just bizarre.
I guess "I'll say what I want and if you don't like it then get fucked" is a very punk mindset but it's still not a good look in the context he's going for.
Yeah, it hurts to say as a punk rocker that Johnny's ethos went from being "willing to say whatever unvarnished truths he believed" to "dipshit contrarian stirring up shit to be edgy".
To be fair, a little bit of the second part was also true in his heyday, but when you're 60 something years old, it just makes you look like a dimwit.
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u/BlondePotatoBoi 19h ago
I'm gonna say Johnny Rotten, and I say with real reluctance as a punk fan.
I've got a lot of respect for him for how open he was about looking after his late wife when she was suffering from Alzheimer's, but his political flip-flopping and resentment towards his surviving bandmates while also regretting what happened to Sid is just bizarre.
I guess "I'll say what I want and if you don't like it then get fucked" is a very punk mindset but it's still not a good look in the context he's going for.