Italian graffiti and conceptual artist Elfo, whose cryptic unpainterly interventions often employ language, irony, appropriation, and deliberately rudimentary aesthetics to poke at the conventions of both street art and contemporary culture, gives us a sweetly unromantic declaration here: “ANOTHER LOVE SONG.”

The new piece and its sentiment recall the bold approach of John Lydon, formerly Johnny Rotten, frontman of the seminal punk band the Sex Pistols. With his next band, Public Image Ltd., Lydon was said to challenge punk’s own conventions—and the uncomfortable question of what happens when rebellion itself becomes a marketable product. Reportedly under pressure to produce something more commercial, PiL answered in 1983 with the sweetly contrary “This Is Not a Love Song,” a tongue-in-cheek response to precisely those expectations. It became their biggest UK hit.

Here Elfo may be working a similar vein of sarcasm, using rough, anti-style lettering to announce “Another Love Song” across a battered industrial wall. The premise that made Lydon’s joke so good—rejecting the expected sentimental pop song while simultaneously making an extremely catchy pop record—still works. Elfo presents a visual equivalent: a love song stripped of romance, polish, and pretty packaging.

Love it!