I don't think so. He postponed the Latin American dates despite selling very well with plenty of sell outs, and then played the USA dates which had poor sales.
FWD pointed out that things sometimes/often go from SER's social media directly to Central.
And Alain's friend @dneuer said that Donnie blocked Alain from Moz' official Instagram iirc.
Yeah I don't think we disagree here.
The only thing I remember him saying about it seemed to indicate the label just got annoyed/upset at him for some reason. Not sure he "chose" to walk away from it. I could be misremembering though.
I don't think he knows Donnie blocked Alain and Gus from Instagram, since according to Alain himself they are on good terms.
Hold on a second, we don't know that Morrissey breached any part of his contract by doing that.
There's a huge power imbalance at play though. Negotiating power, and knowledge as well since labels will have big teams of lawyers seeing that the terms are as favourable to themselves as possible.
Uhm, nothing shows he was aware of these "legal particularities" at that point. Again, Columbia's leaked email is from 9 months after Moz's email, and months also after he mentioned Miley's participation.
It's still not clear that when Moz mentioned Miley's involvement in public, he knew her label had said "no". Scott says that, but he presents no evidence of it (it could well exist, but he doesn't show it). The email from Morrissey he reproduces seems to indicate, in fact, that at that point he...
It's not clear at all that Morrissey knew this. At least not at the point when he commented on Miley's participation.
The email only shows he knew her manager has said she wasn't to be credited.
And, iirc, the Columbia executive email is from after Morrissey mentioned Miley's involvement.
He just needs to say beforehand that he won't be answering questions on politics, if he doesn't want to.
It's different for a politician. They can't really avoid political questions, can they.
In fact, from the only email of his we've seen about this, he appears completely unaware of any issue with Columbia. It seems he had only been told (at that point anyway) that Miley's manager didn't want her credited/named.
The way he said it, when she asked when will the album come out he said "I don't know, it depends on how long it takes for Capitol to give it back" iirc. No mention of how long it would take to find a new record label. So I gather maybe he has a deal already or he's going to self release? (I...
It has to, since the album was recorded before the Capitol deal.
And it would seem they asked Columbia early on and they said no... and they went ahead with the production process anyway. Maybe as you say they thought they could clear up the contractual issues along the way, or maybe Columbia's...
They would have, since they released Rebels. Very probably they don't want to be involved now any longer, after all the drama that's transpired (and we probably don't know half of it).
He only speaks of her management in that email. Maybe the whole issue with Columbia didn't come into play until later. The email from Columbia published is after all from like 9 months after Moz's email.
Moz's "Miley is a punk rocker" seemed to suggest the former. But then he claimed "Miley has backed off for reasons unconnected to me, having had a major clash with a key figure in 'the circle'. I cannot give any details about the private fight because … it is private, after all."
Who knows what...
She approached him, but yeah, obviously publicity would have been an important factor for Morrissey.
While it's not impossible Moz would have demanded Capitol release the album as is despite the cease and desist letter, it seems more likely to me Morrissey wanted to wait to release the album...
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