"There's a lot of stuff these days I don't understand about punk myself. It became a very broad church, a long way from the Sex Pistols to the Talking Heads and from The Slits to the Dolly Mixture or something like that, musically. But also a lot of punks got the wrong end of the stick, and maybe some progenitors of it did as well."
"It is kind of weird these days. I'm constantly surprised by how many punks I see on my Facebook thing that are pro-Trump. It's a bit weird. I think the problem is that the media and the record companies have had so much practice over the years at shutting things out that are kind of pushing it a little bit, and I think it's become quite vacuous what we do get to hear on the radio."
Glen Matlock finds it strange that a notable number of punk fans express support for Donald Trump and reports surprise at seeing pro-Trump posts on social media. John Lydon has expressed opposite views, praising Trump and criticizing Kneecap. Matlock recalls punk's original anti-authoritarian stance amid rising far-right movements and describes punk as a now-broad musical church stretching from the Sex Pistols to Talking Heads. Matlock criticizes media and record companies for repeatedly shutting out boundary-pushing music, producing vacuous radio output. Matlock cites Irish hip-hop group Kneecap as an example of artists pushing political messages despite controversy.
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