I was so ready to be irritated with yet another uninformed anti-Moz ramble, but I found myself nodding as I read this.

Quite accurate, I think.

Thank goodness, 'cos I wasn't in the mood to be tense and upset about this yet again.

It's all about me, you know. :)

It's not like Moz said, "Kill all non-white people.."

so shut the fuck up NME...Rolling Stone would never pull this shit. They would kiss Mrrissey's ass like he deserves...

Thanks Scarlett, I agree with your take on this article. It’s a calm, reasoned, considered response that looks behind the silly hysteria and addresses the interesting question of exactly how and why Morrissey is still able to ‘push the buttons’ that detonate the pseudo-liberal NME ‘collectivist’ viewpoint.His intensely personal individualism refuses to ‘tick the correct boxes’ in the NME multiple-choice exam paper: “Are you….One Of Us?”. Therefore, he is subjected to risible attempts at censure and political re-education by the ‘NME Orthodox Thought and Speech Control Unit’.

If an Artist refuses to put on the specific variety of ‘rose-tinted’ spectacles the NME has decreed for viewing the issue of unexpectedly large and entirely legal immigration from Eastern European countries to the (Dis)United Kingdom: Well! They must be ‘suspicious’ at best, or seditious at worst.

I have posted some fairly major rants about the NME, but it’s just revenge from ‘people of a certain age’ who remember when NME literally ‘controlled the debate’ like a One-Party State. Young people don’t realise how lucky they are to have all these fabulous music blogs to express their opinions, rather than write to the NME in the unlikely event that they’d print anything other than the party line.

Morrissey was a ‘Trojan Horse’: They let him in, raised his onto the pedestal, then he, ungratefully, turned around and ‘bit the hand that fed him’. That’s why I thinks he’s so fab. Contrarian. Ruthlessly protects his rights to free speech and opinion. It’s just so amazing he managed to ‘sneak in the back door’ of the Music Business and ‘destabilize’ it from within.

Some ‘journalists’ at the NME from the early/mid/late 80’s to the 90s/00’s didn’t even like the Urban Folkloric Music of Britain (unless it was characterised by ‘conspicuous difference’, e.g: Echobelly, Fun-da-mental, Cornershop, as examples. All excellent bands in their own way). Or mega-success Britpop, in which case they had to go along with the Vox Populus. Instead, they attempted to foist Black Urban American art-forms such as developing rap and hip-hop genres onto their readership, who by and large, weren’t really that interested in being ‘educated’ as to what they ‘should’ like.

In the same sense that the average purchaser of ‘Kerrang‘, ‘Wire’ or ‘Blues and Soul Music’ magazine might not be fascinated to read a 7 page interview with Babyshamles, Britney-Houston-Spears or a review of Paris Hilton’s latest 'musical offerings'.

Not liking any particular genre of music or cultural art form signifies nothing other than personal choice and preference: Unless it is accompanied by explicit and overt denunciations of the validity of alternative cultural perspectives.
As far as I can tell: Morrissey has never, ever done any such thing, even when he sought to wind up the NME (‘reggae is vile/wild‘, etc) He’s merely had the audacity to ‘speak as he finds’. Like any good British Citizen is entitled to do. Where ever they hail from.

Oh, and if Conor and Jonze and Billy and Julian and Paul ‘I’m dead hard, me I am!’ Heaton fancy meeting up for a Pub Quiz to see who’s the ‘Big Daddy’ of rap / funk / hip-hop/ junglist/ garage/ drum’n’bass: Name the time and place, and it’s a date. So long as Quentin, I mean Fagboy Slim, is the referee.

Having enjoyed (endured) a Catholic Education I developed extraordinarily catholic (eclectic) tastes in music as a ‘coping strategy‘: Such that I got ‘funny looks’ from the ‘faces’ like Boy George and Martin Degville, hovering in the shadows in their ridiculous costumes, never quite understanding how or why it was possible to attend concerts by both David Bowie and John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra at Birmingham Town Hall in the same week as a 12 year old. But then- I never understood all that ‘I’m a Punk, you’re a Goth, you’re a Soul-Boy/Girl crap: Thank G*d we‘ve all moved on: except the NME pseudo -cognoscenti.
Kind regards
Andrew G Mooney

Hey fans! Guess what? I’m not going to ‘copyright’ this one, b

...the right on politically correct student lefties of the NME are every bit as dogmatic as those charming Islamists who were issuing death threats to the Pope outside Westminster Cathedral a few months back. They can't cope with intelligent people voicing their opinions and concerns regarding immigration and cultural identity... It's a threat to them. If someone says something they disagree with they might actually have to examine and question their own extreme beliefs... and find them inflexible, unrealistic and merely belief not fact. That would be too much for them.

Morrissey is the greatest living Englishman and it is his right and his duty to comment on the state of the nation. He is an artist first and foremost and his voice should never be silenced!

It'll blow over just like the Bryan Ferry -Marks and Spencers debacle.

I watched a documentary recently about world war 2 re-enactment exhibitions in England and the majority of those who show up in Nazi uniform to act as german soldiers out number the tommys. Although I can see why M&S didn't particularly like his comments, people like the aesthetic and the buzz of acting as the bad guys.