Swords: Wtf?!

[Vauxhall95]

I'm not gonna pillory you, however I don't agree that these are sad days to be a Morrissey fan.

He's recently released his best album in ages - completed a very successful world tour, so he likes getting naked? So what? It's good to be a Morrissey fan I think...

I appreciate your sentiments. I disagree with your sentiments on "YOR." It was a good pop record, but it certainly came up lacking in the intelligence department. When you set yourself up by writing,
"No it's just more lock jawed pop stars
Thicker than pig shit, Nothing to convey
They're so scared to show intelligence
It might smear their lovely career
This world, I am afraid, Is designed for crashing bores
I am not one, I am not one"

then I believe it is fair to hold Morrissey's lyrics up to a higher standard. Morrissey has had some hit and miss songs on albums in the past but nowhere near the lyrically vapid "YOR." It's cliché after tired cliché. Enough about bailiffs and lawyers. The imagery is borrowed and the songs are trite and heavy handed. I get it: it's a nice pop record. However, if this is now the standard by which Morrissey is to be judged than I'm afraid he's wallowing away in the pig shit with other pop artist, who quite frankly are better at making mind numbing radio friendly music than he is.

As far as him liking to get naked, it is only a recent development corresponding to the promotion of his material. He's already been caught and filed suit against this website when a correspondence he penned to then manager Merck Mercuriadis outlining his use of a manufactured animal rights controversy to help get him gain publicity in the U.K. leaked out publicly, is it therefore such a leap to think his latest foray into nudism is merely a marketing ploy (and a very transparent one at that)?

 

[Jamie]

My only complaint about Swords is that a few of the tracks on the live bonus disc already appeared on the Hollywood Bowl bonus disc from Greatest Hits. Life is a Pigsty is long enough to be scuppered for two other live tracks - and surely the world would not be poorer without yet another version of I Just Want To See the Boy Happy?

Cheers,
Jamie

 

[Velvis]

I appreciate your sentiments. I disagree with your sentiments on "YOR." It was a good pop record, but it certainly came up lacking in the intelligence department. When you set yourself up by writing,
"No it's just more lock jawed pop stars
Thicker than pig shit, Nothing to convey
They're so scared to show intelligence
It might smear their lovely career
This world, I am afraid, Is designed for crashing bores
I am not one, I am not one"

then I believe it is fair to hold Morrissey's lyrics up to a higher standard. Morrissey has had some hit and miss songs on albums in the past but nowhere near the lyrically vapid "YOR." It's cliché after tired cliché. Enough about bailiffs and lawyers. The imagery is borrowed and the songs are trite and heavy handed. I get it: it's a nice pop record. However, if this is now the standard by which Morrissey is to be judged than I'm afraid he's wallowing away in the pig shit with other pop artist, who quite frankly are better at making mind numbing radio friendly music than he is.

As far as him liking to get naked, it is only a recent development corresponding to the promotion of his material. He's already been caught and filed suit against this website when a correspondence he penned to then manager Merck Mercuriadis outlining his use of a manufactured animal rights controversy to help get him gain publicity in the U.K. leaked out publicly, is it therefore such a leap to think his latest foray into nudism is merely a marketing ploy (and a very transparent one at that)?

Your post here is appreciated and you make some excellent points, but I'm not sure his recent exhibitioinistic streak is quite that transparent. I think that the recent forays into nudism are driven by his need to push barriers. He can't give any more lyrically, he's already given all there is to give. There is no more, he's lyrically drained. He can still write funny and clever lyrics but the barriers have already been broken. What is there left to do? ...I know, I'll show them my arse!