"you seem 2 have spent almost every living moment of your life on this site the past few years, pointing out all of morrisseys "mistakes" , and flaws ect of which yes there are many!
But perhaps you cud maybe tell us all of sum good things about him instead ?
Surley there must be at least one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or wud this task be 2 great a mission for you 2 achieve ? "
Thanks for that, MIDNITE.
I work an 18 hour day, almost every day. I have a tab open on this site as 'Morrissey' is the entity/project/persona I chose to explore the concept of 'Fame'. I originally intended to have David Bowie as my focus but, because of my age and the effect he had on me as a child, that proved just too emotionally draining. So I chose 'Morrissey' but it could have been any one of many nondescript narcissistic 'fame' projects. I don't spend much time here now as that project has concluded, we're in the 'coda', the aftermath where 'Morrissey' crashes and burns, falling back to earth from the delusionality of 'fame'.
Whilst I have concluded he is a crank-fraud (and suspected and told folk that when he first appeared in 1983) I think the outrageous ambition of his attempted re-invention as 'Morrissey' was a wonderful sparkler which lit up the dismal fog of early/mid 80s UK cultural life. The years where he was 1/4 of The Smiths collective and contributed to their remarkable canon of songs was sealed by Johnny Marr's brave decision to terminate the 'fame' machine, stopping Morrissey in his devious tracks to prioritise his family life and artistic development after his NDE car-crash.
This means there is no reason to take Morrissey's decades-long karaoke 'solo' career as a tribute act to himself seriously, rather we should all relax back into gentle enjoyment of his Beclowned stand-up comic phase. Once we allow ourselves to see his entire 'solo' career as an arch-ironic gesture, as a sad clown performance to mourn his failure to become famous then there is much to relish within the circus that is 'Morrissey - Solo'.
If time allows I will collate some of the insights I have shared here into a samizdat book to circulate once Morrissey croaks from his CANCER!!!! I find him to be both hilarious and sad. I cannot imagine how tawdry and boring his almost-celebrity life must be, constantly fretting about how to get 'attention' to try and keep his commercial conceits on the road. But his troubles as a music business entrepreneur are of no concern to anyone other than his accountant.
In an almost miraculous wave of karmic justice, he has been banjaxed by Bowie's perfect exit from this planet and now, with Brexit and his failure to comment on the EU Ref, he is so totally irrelevant that it ranks as an achievement. "each time you vote you support the process" Yes, but the process is Revolution against the Global Elite. The fact that Brexit will be vanquished by the elite is irrelevant: the Mob have risen and Morrissey wasn't even on the same page when this epochal event unfolded. I could go on.....but dawn is breaking, there is so much to attend to today, coming to this site to see the deranged and amusing testimonies of his 'fans' is light relief. I chose not to become a 'global star' but, if there's time between more serious projects, I still hope to release some music in the next decade. I have written a song about Steven which I think absolutely summarises and enshrines all of this. But I'm not sure if he would survive if I actually release it. We shall see. In conclusion, I'd advise everyone to ponder whether or not those who become C list celebrities, like Morrissey, are necessarily more 'talented' than those who don't, or whether they're just workaholic careerist obsessives who have nothing else to do with their time on this planet. Let's just wait and see how Johnny Marr's autobiography unfolds....then we'll know if this ends with a reformation of The Smiths for a mega-payday for retirement. Or not!
All the best and hoping things go well for you.
BrummieBoy
Panic (Brexit 'Hang The EU' Remix)
