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Johnny Rotten Is…Well….Rotten

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Everyone knows the Sex Pistols, led by Johnny Rotten and made famous by Sid Vicious. They sound like charming boys, right? Songs like “God Save the Queen/She Ain’t No Human Being”, “am an anti-Christ/ I am an anarchist/ Don’t know what I want/ But I know how to get it/I wanna destroy the passerby/ ‘Cos I wanna be anarchy. That’s actually a really good song. I enjoy the Sex Pistols, I enjoyed Gary Oldman as Sid Vicious. I do not enjoy Johnny Rotten aka John Lydon shooting his sexist mouth off on the news.

Lydon was on Australian TV, The Project, and when female host Carrie Bickmore attempted to ask him a question he told her to “shut up” and “When a man is talking, do not interrupt,” Lydon said. “You sound like one of them dreadful loud birds I don’t like.” Click here to watch.

I’m sure the beautiful, successful TV anchor was crushed than an over-weight former drug addict rock star found her “dreadful” and didn’t like her. Man, I be all her hopes were crushed. This is the problem. He thinks he has the right to treat someone like this because his ego has been so inflated by his past fame. No one has bothered to sit him down and explain that he is irrelevant and being polite would get him farther than being a douchebag.

But what can you expect from a man that chooses to call himself “Johnny Rotten”. Not much…and that’s exactly what we got.



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Queen Bey

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I just wrote an article about how all women are feminists…but are just afraid to admit it. I went on a huge rant about how female celebrities are doing a disservice to themselves and their fans by not admitting to being a feminist. Leave it to the Queen Bey to prove me right!
Beyonce is on the cover of Vogue UK’s May issues (looking fierce of course) and in the interview she says, “But I guess I am a modern-day feminist. I do believe in equality. Why do you have to choose what type of woman you are? Why do you have to label yourself anything? I’m just a woman and I love being a woman. I do believe in equality and that we have a way to go and it’s something that’s pushed aside and something that we have been conditioned to accept.”
She’s flawless. God, really….she’s beyond human. Beyonce has come under some scrutiny for her latest single “Bow Down” some say it’s anti-feminst….I say nay! NAY ON THAT! The song in question has the following lyrics:
I know when you were little girls, You dreamt of being in my world, Don’t forget it, don’t forget it, Respect that, bow down, bitches.

It’s the “bow down, bitches” part that is getting flack—mainly from Rush Limbaugh. Not that Limbaugh matters or understands anything let alone feminist ideals—but I’ll address his attack.
“She’s done a total 180,” Limbaugh said of the star. “Beyonce’s now saying ‘Go ahead and put up with it!’ … She’s going to call herself Mrs. Carter on the ‘Bow Down B—-s’ tour.” He added, “She got married, she married the rich guy, she now understands. She now understands that it’s worth it to bow down. And she’s passing on that advice.”


But what the song is actually saying is: bow down bitches that thought I couldn’t make it. Bow down bitches that thought they were on my level. It’s an egotistical song…now a submissive song. Shockingly, Limbaugh missed the point! He also missed the part where it says: “I took some time to live my life, But don’t think I’m just his little wife, Don’t get it twisted, get it twisted, This my sh-t, bow down bitches”.
Oh, she took some time from making millions on her own to be a wife and mother…that means she bows down to her rich husband? SHE’S RICH! Man, that Limbaugh…what a douche amiright?
Anyway, Queen Bey is at it again. She’s just being perfect, making millions, raising a baby, having a successful long term relationship in the entertainment world and Limbaugh is fat, frustrated, idiot that couldn’t get a lady even if he paid for it—he certainly couldn’t get Bey!
In response to his idiotic take on her life Beyonce had this to say, “I feel like Mrs Carter is who I am, but more bold and more fearless than I’ve ever been. It comes from knowing my purpose and really meeting myself once I saw my child,” she said. “I was like, ‘OK, this is what you were born to do.’ The purpose of my body became completely different.”


Ugh, stop being so perfect, Beyonce!



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Taylor Swift: The Anti-Feminist

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Taylor Swift said, “There is a special place in hell for women who don’t help other women.” She said it in response to being asked if Tina Fey and Amy Poehler’s joke about her love life upset her. I have several problems with this. First being that Taylor Swift’s love life is a joke and she makes it a public one because every song she ever writes is about it. Second, you can’t say that these two brilliant powerful women who broke the mold for women in TV are going to hell because they didn’t back you. You just committed the same folly.

When Amy Poehler was asked what she thought about the comment she said something to the effect of, “I’m going to hell but mainly for boring tax reasons” and that’s how it’s handled. Once again proving that charm, maturity, and comedy will always outweigh the “poor me you were mean to me” little whiney girl.

That’s all Taylor Swift is, a perpetual teenager stuck in a “poor me” party. I understand that heartbreak makes the best poetry and lyrics are poems but enough is enough. How many men has she dated?! Enough to have at least three albums worth of lyrics, there’s an entire Wiki about them. That’s a lot of public heartbreak. I mean, most people in the public view have relationships end but they don’t talk about them endlessly.

My point is I feel like Taylor Swift sets back feminism. She’s a meek, little girl whose happiness (and album successes) relies on a man. I would love to see her break out of this mold she’s created for herself. She’s 22 now, I don’t want her riding around in the basket of a shopping cart—it’s time to grow up.



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Bowie is Back

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David Bowie is back with his first album in ten years. That in itself is great news but with this album comes music videos. Paul McCartney showed how classic artists can still be relevant and inventive just take a look at his Vine feed. Bowie had big shoes to fill and, naturally, he filled them.

The first video, The Stars (Are Out Tonight), stars Tilda Swinton…as…David…Bowie’s…wife. I’ll let that sink in.

It’s amazing. Two of the most androgynous people coming together as a couple and I get to watch it! For those of you who don’t know Swinton is an Oscar winning actress and recently started in Moonrise Kingdom. The video also includes models Andrej Pejic and Saskia De Brauw and features Norwegian model Iselin Steiro as a young Bowie.
The video is directed by Floria SIgismondi who worked with Bowie twice before, once in ’96 and ’97. She’s also worked with Muse, Katy Perry, The White Stripes, The Cure, Bjork, Leonard Cohen and Marilyn Manson.
The video’s story, according to Bowie, “at once captures a twenty first century moment in its convergence of age, gender and the normal/celebrity divide.” It already has critics raving. Neil McCormick from the Daily Telegraph said the video is, “teasing us with ideas of Bowie both as an aging recluse and an ageless androgynous rock star. It is the return of the master, showing every other rock and roll star, old or young, how things should be done,” he added.
Once again Bowie shows himself as a force to be reckoned with and that he hasn’t lost his artistic touch. Welcome back, Bowie.



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