Johnny Rotten turns on Arctic Monkeys : Music News

Climbing atop his high horse, John Lydon aka Johnny Rotten, the one time Sex Pistols singer  has attacked the Arctic Monkeys claiming that they’re “not a band”.

Lydon told Q magazine that the Monkeys- who recently won NME’s Best Live Act award- are just “a showbiz construct. A mockery… very much like that awful band Green Day or Avril Lavigne. They don’t advance. They’re stuck in a time warp and not writing from the heart. Once you recognise the four walls of a genre and stick inside them, you are not writing from the heart.”

John Lydon - Looking as 'rotten' as ever.

According to Lydon,  Arctic Monkeys’ frontman Alex Turner “just turns on the computer and types in ‘punk’ and it goes ping. I see no gut-wrenching soul-searching going on there. Just pleasant little ditties. There’s room for that, but I’m seeking more substance”