This sounds promising. Evidently John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten of the seminal punk band the Sex Pistols, was sitting around his Los Angeles beach house when all the drugs he’s taken over the past 35 years kicked in at once, spawning an idea so transcendently awful it’s very nearly good. The washed-up punk rocker thinks he can restart his career by joining forces with washed-up teen hottie Britney Spears to produce—something that defies description, most likely. Anyway, here’s the theory:

I haven’t written a song for Britney yet but I would love to. I’d like to help out because there’s a girl who needs some help. She’s been hurt. And hurt is the root core essence of good music.

It sounds like Lydon is envisioning Britney as a slightly paunchier, more nasal version of Trent Reznor. More likely he’d get something that sounds like a downbeat Miley Cyrus, viciously hung over after her first Jagermeister-and-Robitussin experiments. Either way, it sounds like the most unlikely pop pairing since Tammy Wynette teamed up with The KLF for “Justified and Ancient,” and I’m hoping Lydon can pull it off. Anarchy, Johnny. ANARCHY!! ANARCHY!!!