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I honestly don't understand how some people aren't able to separate artist from art. The list of the wholly reprehensible misdeeds that even the "exalted" ones (e.g., John Lennon) have committed over the course of their lifetimes is a massively long one. And it's got to be as rare as hen's teeth to find an artist who's been a saint their entire lives. Spare yourselves the inevitable disappointment.
Morrissey has done a series of dickish things to be sure, but in the grand scheme of things (wife beating, running over cops, race-fueled violence, etc. etc.), it hardly seems anything to get too excited about.
The Copenhagen show has sort of tilted my scale.
I normally can separate the artist from the art because normally I love the art and don't care about the artist but after so many years of actually being interested in Morrissey as a person in addition to the art there is a conundrum here.
The idea of Morrissey right now makes me sad and the songs are an extension of him so I don't have much interest in listening to his music right now.
This is all new and I have no way to predict how I will feel in a month or 6 or a year.
I do think his treatment of his fans has been pretty shitty but I do not think it means anything in regards to the music.
I really liked and still like Years of Refusal. I listened to it twice on Sunday.
The 3 new songs seem pretty weak and bland but the Glastonbury footage of Action... made me like it more. I can't say it is worse than many of the songs on Kill Uncle and I know some people don't like Southpaw Grammar (which I think is great) so that might be a place where people could compare and say "The new songs are better".
I think his solo career has had cycles of creativity where it goes from high to low and back again. Perhaps this is that. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end. We won't know unless we actually get a new album so we have something complete and finished to judge.