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Not at all. He could sing Mein Kampf as long as there was a tune there. But there isn't.
Really? Are we listening to the same records?
Not at all. He could sing Mein Kampf as long as there was a tune there. But there isn't.
No mostly because I think he's more in the middle, maybe the extreme middle, than people want to admit. There's also a lot of assumption about some topics and I don't doubt that for some issues that morrissey has a long drawn out idea or explanation that would take an actual conversation to understand. As to his writing style I do think him more cynical and maybe the court case hastened this change but there's probably also factors we just don't know about or see (like any real person). He seems a lot more hardened and less vulnerable than in the past for sure. I sometimes wonder if he's somewhat embarrassed now about some the more flowery puffy images lyrics and songs he used to be known for
I think that since he came out as a Humasexual, he's very uncomfortable with all the past stuff where he purloined gay, f*****y imagery as it made out he is a cocksucker like what Kristeen Young said he was onstage before he sacked her in a hissy fit. I don't think he likes being called a fat puff or an old tart. He's a Humasexual. I guess he's angry because everyone just LOLs at that and thinks he's a puff with 'puffy images lyrics and songs' like wot he's always had.
There's a huge difference between being an agent provocateur & being a gross troll.
There's a huge difference between being an agent provocateur & being a gross troll. His earlier lyrics played with 'dangerous' lyrical topics but in a way that allowed interpretation. His latest words just seems gratuitously provocative, having no purpose beyond igniting a reaction. I doubt he believes half the stuff he flirts with.
I also think he's become increasingly bitter and angry as he ages and realised the only reason he hasn't become a major star is because people regard him as a C List talent with a penchant for trolling. The lyrics to the latest songs just seem like random diary entries of a confused, drifting middle-aged misanthrope who is lost in absurd conspiracy theories. I've concluded the only reason he carries on is because he lacks the guts to face failure and stop. He doesn't seem to be remotely inspired by his music or words, just using them as a vehicle to vent his spleen at a world that either ignores him or mocks him.
I've concluded the only reason he carries on is because he lacks the guts to face failure
No, he hates tai chi.
He has a right to his opinion, just like we all do to call him out on his lazy, shallow support for racists.
Here is a quote showing Morrissey's support for renowned racist extremist Bernie Sanders:
"therefore a sad day looms in November - a day that only Bernie Sanders could have saved - had he been allowed his rightful share of media support."
The key event that happened in 1997 was the move to America, and whether through adaption of a more blunt 'American' attitude, artistic choice, age or otherwise you are correct to identify (as, indeed, many have) a change in writing style from Quarry onwards...
That is not to write off all the American years as of no quality. There is at least one song on every album since Maladjusted, say Home Is A Question Mark to offer a recent example, where the tact and beauty of the earlier lyricism is successfully maintained in an older and matured era. But particularly with his social and political songs, the replacement of humour and wit with bluntness and vitriol has, as one would expect, resulted in a subsequent decline in quality. Compare the title tracks of The Queen Is Dead to World Peace Is None of Your Business and you'll get the picture.
This, 100%. When Morrissey moved to LA, he adopted the American language wholesale - he doesn't even spell in British English anymore - and at the same time a certain bluntness, lack of nuance and lack of wit came into his lyrics. I think a couple of things happened in those wilderness years - firstly he stopped being seeped in the nostalgic stew of British culture (even if it was largely harkening back to some imagined past England, that possibly never existed outside of his head and a few old movies) - secondly, he realised he now had to cultivate a global audience to survive. Now, he is singing to Mexicans, South Americans, and various other people to whom English is a second language - the result is lyrics as blunt and witless as "Brazil and Bahrain/ oh Egypt, Ukraine/ so many people in pain". He's broadened his appeal, he is a worldwide artist - but the decline in lyrical quality is also bound up in this.
I think that since he came out as a Humasexual, he's very uncomfortable with all the past stuff where he purloined gay, f*****y imagery as it made out he is a cocksucker like what Kristeen Young said he was onstage before he sacked her in a hissy fit. I don't think he likes being called a fat puff or an old tart. He's a Humasexual. I guess he's angry because everyone just LOLs at that and thinks he's a puff with 'puffy images lyrics and songs' like wot he's always had.