Post by purple vulva on Feb 26, 2006 12:37:59 GMT -5
Johnny Rotten on Courtney Love - "Ya Cheap Fake!"
« Thread Started on Mar 15, 2005, 9:19am »
Interviewer:Well, John, Courtney can be quite vindictive....
Johnny Rotten:'Yes, but at the same time, she's absolutely amusing. Whether you laugh at her or with her, but mostly at her -- it's nonetheless an endless source of titillation!'
Interviewer:Madonna recently remarked in Spin that Courtney was interesting in the manner that an old, Tourette's-addled woman you see in the park is interesting.
Johnny Rotten:'Oh, that's very funny!' Lydon laughs. 'But I don't think it's that at all. I think it's just the spoiled brat syndrome. 'I want! I want! I want!' With precious little content.'
Interviewer: Don't you find it odd that people like Courtney and Al Jourgensen claim to come from punk rock, and they behave so much like the old Seventies rock stars?
Johnny Rotten: 'Yes, which is the very thing we actually tried to get rid of. And it's a shame that they're role-modeling themselves around the Sid & Nancy vibe, which was the not a very nice person end of it. It's because it's the easy way out, isn't it? That kind of mentality requires no thought, no content, no effort, no point, no purpose. Junk food is easy to package. It's cheap, and you can mass-produce it.'
He referred to Courtney Love as "Courtney Loves Kurt's Money," and summed her up with the words; "You love the idea of being a rebel but you haven't proved to me or anybody what you're rebelling against. You're just a pile of confusion, ya cheap fake!"
« Thread Started on Mar 15, 2005, 9:19am »
Interviewer:Well, John, Courtney can be quite vindictive....
Johnny Rotten:'Yes, but at the same time, she's absolutely amusing. Whether you laugh at her or with her, but mostly at her -- it's nonetheless an endless source of titillation!'
Interviewer:Madonna recently remarked in Spin that Courtney was interesting in the manner that an old, Tourette's-addled woman you see in the park is interesting.
Johnny Rotten:'Oh, that's very funny!' Lydon laughs. 'But I don't think it's that at all. I think it's just the spoiled brat syndrome. 'I want! I want! I want!' With precious little content.'
Interviewer: Don't you find it odd that people like Courtney and Al Jourgensen claim to come from punk rock, and they behave so much like the old Seventies rock stars?
Johnny Rotten: 'Yes, which is the very thing we actually tried to get rid of. And it's a shame that they're role-modeling themselves around the Sid & Nancy vibe, which was the not a very nice person end of it. It's because it's the easy way out, isn't it? That kind of mentality requires no thought, no content, no effort, no point, no purpose. Junk food is easy to package. It's cheap, and you can mass-produce it.'
He referred to Courtney Love as "Courtney Loves Kurt's Money," and summed her up with the words; "You love the idea of being a rebel but you haven't proved to me or anybody what you're rebelling against. You're just a pile of confusion, ya cheap fake!"