Johnny Marr trashes HAIM in NME column

While HAIM's debut album is showing up high on year-end lists across the land, I can think of at least one person who isn't a fan of the sister trio. Johnny Marr bashed the band behind "The Wire" in his recent column for NME.

"It's really simple: they made themselves look like idiots, he said regarding the band's picture with British Prime Minister David Cameron. "It's ridiculous. No-one put a gun to their head. The Conservatives tried to do the same thing with The Smiths, to re-appropriate us in a false way, to be cool by association." 

The famed Smiths guitarist wasn't done. He also took out some anger on streaming service Spotify.

"I can't think of anything more opposite to punk rock than Spotify. I have no answer to the economic side of the music industry, but I do think we certainly shouldn't stop valuing what bands do. I don't like great things being throwaway.

"Pop culture isn't just about 'the music, man'. It's a way of life, and an aesthetic, and it's not just about pressing a button and getting something entirely for convenience. Put it this way: we're soon going to start seeing the difficulties of innovative music trying to swim in that huge tide."

However, that isn't to say Marr is a hater. He did show love for CHVRCHES' Lauren Mayberry and Grimes for posting very public anti-sexism pieces.

(via FACT)