Does it help that we're not talking about the explicit meaning of "That's How People Grow Up" (yes, we get it, it's about how people grow up...)?
Or if not, how about I have my fun and you have yours?
I think he's written lyrics in the mock-throwaway mode before (most of Ringleader, I think, appears thrown away but it runs right if you throw up the hood and take a look, and I'm fairly sure there was more explicit mythologizing around the supposed relative spontaneity of Your Arsenal and Viva...
I was unclear. I didn't list any I felt he phoned in. I meant that "Dior" and "That's How People" and "Dagenham Dave" are all sort of great/sort of not. Misfit songs that fit into Morrissey's canon, aren't phone-ins, have a lot to recommend them but are far from perfect.
Something about...
What can one do? The lyric and the sentiment are themselves quite banal.
Of course its real problem is that it's not banal, but inane; the quality of art is not measured by how many times it's been done. I may still change my mind again about "That's How People..." (my friend's line on it is...
I've always found "That's How People Grow Up" to be not much more than beautifully-sung with a nice hook and an abysmal lyric, and I hate Jerry Finn to hell - so it was to my shock that I found I really loved this studio version.
Finn treats Moz' and Kristeen's voices beautifully, and I don't...
It seems as if the Big Word associated with Morrissey has, at long last, changed from "celibate" - to "bigot," and all so quickly, too. Amy Winehouse is a drunk, Pete Doherty is a drug addict and Morrissey is a xenophobe. Cute.
"If you don't reveal yourself," apparently, "we shall do it for...
Well, I don't think anyone can doubt that these are Morrissey's views. It's just a matter of how it's spun.
For me, it's yet another thing I'm struggling to understand about the difference between the US and the UK - over here I'm really not sure this would be read as an "uncomfortably"...
This is such good soap. Lord.
I find the generational aspects of this interesting - according to their MySpaces McNicholas is 34 and Jonze a whopping 27. (Merck's unknown, but he looks to be in his thirties to me.) I wonder how it's affected all of this that McNicholas was fifteen in about 1987...
This whole steaming pile of media bollocks is nothing more than a weak, cheap substitute for a rigorous and self-examining debate about xenophobia.
It reads like a nation freaking out, which let me tell you, it's strange to see from the outside.
First time I read that as:
"I find Morrissey very silly. Almost too silly to discuss. It's beyond reason. And makes no sense and is ludicrous" --Morrissey
While I'm all for suing their asses, I have to say that "to be relentless in bringing the NME ... to justice" sounds like the result of an informal contest between Morrissey and Merck as to who could come up with the most Bush-esque wording.
While formulating my reaction to all this, it hit me that the only offensive aspect of this business is that everyone's pretending it's about race. It's not, and race (and nation) is too important a matter to displace like this.
It's about competing legend-building, or competing icon-building...
Wow, this is one of the better interviews he's given in recent years.
The political comments are woolly at worst, and he makes it quite clear that he's speaking about his personal thoughts about England, not making a sweeping policy statement which he thinks should be meaningful to all. It's...
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