When Smith first arrived on the scene, though, she was on the precipice of what would become punk rock. Shortly after she unleashed her debut album Horses, bands would be popping up left and right, laying waste to the original scene [...] With artists like John Lennon making songs with profanity, concerned authority figures were under the impression that this new approach to music was a lot more destructive than it was revolutionary, calling for many people to censor what they put into their music. When talking about her role against art being stifled, she thought that rock and roll wasn’t to be trifled with, explaining, “Rock and roll is my art. The government doesn’t know shit, whether it’s art or not. Rock and roll is warfare. All the time…still fighting.”